Bettina Arnold @ IUPPS History of archaeology

Research interests

Publications

• 2023 The perils of a usable past: archaeology’s journey from culture history to culture wars.  Getty-CAS Spring School Working Paper Series 13/1 The Impact of the Political on Archaeological Research, pp. 1-22. University of Sofia, Bulgaria. https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=659
• 2022 National Socialist archaeology as a Faustian bargain: the contrasting careers of Hans Reinerth and Herbert Jankuhn. In Bernard M. Levinson and Robert P. Ericksen (eds) Betrayal of the Humanities under National Socialism, pp. 332- 357. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. https://iupress.org/9780253060792/the-betrayal-of-the-humanities/
• 2019    Von Bozen nach Wisconsin und zurück – die Entdeckungen des William Frankfurth. Archäologie in Deutschland 2019 (5): 44-45.
• 2019    “Der stete Antiquar“: William Frankfurth (1829-1891) aus Milwaukee, WI, USA. In: Günther Kaufmann / Andreas Putzer (eds) Die Anfänge der Archäologie im Süden Tirols: Forschungsgeschichte bis 1919, pp. 289-300. Bolzano: Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum.
• 2015    Archaeology and politics in the 21^st century: still Faustian, but not much of a bargain. In Kristian Kristiansen, Ladislav Smejda and Jan Turek (eds) Paradigm Found: Archaeological Theory, Past, Present and Future. Essays in Honor of Evžen Neustupný, pp. 178-185. Oxford: Oxbow.
• 2014    Das Geheimnis von Sammlung 213: Milwaukee, USA. Der Hobbyarchäologe William Frankfurth in den Alpen. With Harald Stadler. In Florian Müller (ed.) Graben, Entdecken, Sammeln: Laienforscher in der Geschichte der Archäologie Österreichs, pp. 259-276. Wien-Berlin-Münster: LIT-Verlag.
• 2014    Erasure of the Past. In Helaine I. Silverman and Vasiliki Kynourgiopoulou (eds) World Heritage volume, Encylopedia of Global Archaeology. Pp. 2441-2448.  New York:  Springer.
• 2013    The lake dwelling diaspora and natural history museums: identity, collecting and ethics. In Francesco Menotti and Aidan O’Sullivan (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology, pp. 875-891. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2012    The Vix Princess redux: a retrospective on European Iron Age gender and mortuary studies. In Lourdes Prados Torreira (ed.) La Arqueología funeraria desde una perspectiva de género, pp. 215-232. Madrid: UA Ediciones.
• 2012    Gender and temporality in Iron Age west-central Europe. In Mary Jo Maynes and Marynel Ryan (eds) Temporalities and Periodization in Human History: Conversations across the Disciplines of History and Archaeology Special Section Social Science History 36(1): 85-112. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/471585
• 2006    “Arierdämmerung”: Race and Archaeology in Nazi Germany. World Archaeology 38 (1): 8-31.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/40023592?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
• 2006    Pseudoarchaeology and nationalism. In Garrett G. Fagan (ed.) Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public, pp.154-179. London: Routledge. 
• 2004    Dealing with the devil: the Faustian bargain of archaeology under dictatorship. In Michael Galaty and Charles Watkinson (eds.) Archaeology Under Dictatorship, pp. 191-212. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F0-387-36214-2_9
• 2002    A transatlantic perspective on German archaeology. In Archaeology, Ideology and Society: The German Experience (2^nd edition), edited by Heinrich Härke, pp. 401-425. Series Gesellschaften und Staaten Vol. 7. Bern and Frankfurt: Fritz Lang Verlag.
• 2002    Justifying genocide: the supporting role of archaeology in “ethnic cleansing”. In Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide, edited by Alex Hinton, pp. 95-116. University of California Press.
• 1999    The contested past.  Anthropology Today 15(4): 1-4. London: Royal Anthropological Institute. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678144?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
• 1998/1999 The power of the past: nationalism and archaeology in 20th century Germany. Archaeologia Polona 35/36:237-253 “Archaeology in the 20th Century: Ideas – People – Research”. Polish Academy of the Sciences. http://www.iaepan.edu.pl/archaeologia-polona/article/555
• 1995    Archaeology in Nazi Germany: the legacy of the Faustian bargain. Bettina Arnold and Henning Haßmann. In Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology, edited by Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett, pp. 70-81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 1992    The past as propaganda: how Hitler’s archaeologists distorted European prehistory to justify racist and territorial goals. Archaeology July/August 1992:30-37.
• 1990    The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany. Antiquity 64(244):464-478.

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