Bøger af Nadia Abu El-Haj

How and why did archaeology in Israel emerge as such a persuasive force? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? This text addresses these questions and specifies the relationship between national ideology, colonial settlement and the production of historical knowledge.

Analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. This book examines genetic history's working assumptions about culture and nature, identity and biology, and the individual and the collective.