TY - JOUR

T1 - Authority and Subject (in the Archaeological Discourse in Austria and Germany)

AU - Karl, Raimund

PY - 2020/4

Y1 - 2020/4

N2 - The primary task of archaeological heritage management is to represent the public interest in archaeology. How this is constituted and determined has changed significantly over the past 200 years. As this paper demonstrates, a modern, egalitarian, democratic approach has yet to be established within Austrian and German archaeological heritage management: the relationship between heritage management bureaucracy and the civic subject is anachronistic, stuck in a pre-1848 Revolution mindset. Due to the lack of a public discourse and the nature of scholarly engagement with archaeological heritage management, the power of (state) archaeologists is not imaginary, but very real.

AB - The primary task of archaeological heritage management is to represent the public interest in archaeology. How this is constituted and determined has changed significantly over the past 200 years. As this paper demonstrates, a modern, egalitarian, democratic approach has yet to be established within Austrian and German archaeological heritage management: the relationship between heritage management bureaucracy and the civic subject is anachronistic, stuck in a pre-1848 Revolution mindset. Due to the lack of a public discourse and the nature of scholarly engagement with archaeological heritage management, the power of (state) archaeologists is not imaginary, but very real.

KW - ARCHAEOLOGY

KW - Heritage

KW - Heritage law

KW - Heritage management

U2 - 10.1007/s11759-020-09393-9

DO - 10.1007/s11759-020-09393-9

M3 - Article

VL - 16

SP - 137

EP - 158

JO - Archaeologies - Journal of the World archaeology Congress

JF - Archaeologies - Journal of the World archaeology Congress

SN - 1555-8622

IS - 1

T2 - 23rd annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists

Y2 - 30 August 2017 through 3 September 2017

ER -