Archaeology and Capitalism

About the Author

Yannis Hamilakis is Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton and has taught at the University of Wales Lampeter (1996-2000) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2005). He has held a number of research fellowships with most recent a residential scholarship at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2005-2006). He has published extensively on the politics of the past, the archaeology of the consuming body, and the prehistory of the Aegean.Philip Duke is a professor of anthropology at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, where he has taught since 1980. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Until recently, his professional work has been conducted on the archaeology of western North America, and he is the author of, among other publications, Points in Time: Structure and Event in a Late Northern Plains Hunting Society, and co-editor of Beyond Subsistence: Plains Archaeology and the Postprocessual Critique. He also works with the Ludlow Collective at the site of the 1914 Ludlow massacre near Trinidad, Colorado. His research interests include public archaeology and repatriation issues, and currently he is investigating the nexus between the construction of the Minoan Bronze Age and contemporary tourism on Crete.