Section outline

  • Reading

    • Z. Bahrani, “Conjuring Mesopotamia: Imaginative Geography and a World Past,” in L. Meskell (ed.), Archaeology under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (London: Routledge, 1998), 159-74
    • L. Meskell, “Imperialism, Internationalism, and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East,” American Anthropologist 122/3 (2020), 554–67 (already assigned in ARCH B101 for 9/2, but we’ll discuss it here too)

    Supplementary Reading (to replace class on 9/4)

    • T. J. Wilkinson, "Geography, Climate, Topography," in CAANE, 3-26