The 13 chapters are substantially revised from papers delivered to the conference Filtering the Past, Building the Future: Archaeology, Tradition, and Politics in the Middle East, held at the
University of Utah at an undisclosed date. Archaeologists and historians explore the political appropriation of the past from such perspectives as archaeology and nationalism in Iraq 1921-2003,
undermining the edifice of ethnocentric historical narrative in Israel with community-based archaeology, exploring heritage discourse in central Jordan, field schools of the Supreme Council of
Antiquities in Egypt, and potential abuses and uses of the remote past in the Middle East (and elsewhere). Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
