The 6th World Archaeological Congress, University College Dublin, Ireland, 29thJune to 4th July 2008

Call for papers
Title of session:
"Politics and Archaeology in Various Regions of theWorld"
within the theme of Reflections on Archaeology and Politics

Session Organizers:
Talia Shay (Talia_shay@yahoo.com)
Victor Gonzalez Fernandez

Session abstract:
This session will relate to one or more of the six questions proposed in our general theme"Reflections on Politics andArchaeology/Anthropology".

1-How archaeological knowledge in the world is used or abused for political purposes.
2 -The contextual background of biased attitudes to the past in different parts of the world.
3-Whether archaeologists/anthropologists can prevent the results of scientific work from being used against particular groups or factions in their areas.
4-How biased attitudes to the past influence people'sidentity in different areas of the world.
5-What are the perspectives of indigenous people or different minorities on archaeological inference indefferent areas and how do they live on in the intersection between the prevailing and traditionalvalues?
6 - Whether reciprocal relations are evident between archaeologists/anthropologists and indigenous communities in particular areas and do they point tothe emergence of a new code of ethics.
At the closing of this sesion a sythasis of the entire theme will be presented by the organizers.