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Author: Bettina Arnold
Bettina Arnold is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her BA in Archaeology from Yale University and her MA and PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. She has published extensively on the following topics: the archaeological interpretation and analysis of early state level societies in pre-Roman Iron Age Europe, particularly as reflected in mortuary contexts; the role of alcohol and feasting in social systems in prehistoric and historic societies; the archaeological interpretation of prehistoric gender configurations; and the socio-political history of archaeology, particularly its role in identity construction in 19th and 20th century nationalist and ethnic movements in Europe and the United States.
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. Archäologiein Deutschland2019 (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 21st 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 ofHistory and Archaeology Special Section Social Science History 36(1): 85-112. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/471585
2006 Pseudoarchaeology and nationalism. In Garrett G. Fagan (ed.) Archaeological Fantasies: HowPseudoarchaeology 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 (2nd 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.
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.