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“Agatha Christie was married to a man named Max Mallowan, a well-known archaeologist, particularly in the Near East. She wrote Come, Tell Me How You Live in 1946. It’s a tremendously chirpy account of absolutely colonial archaeology: of expeditions in Syria or parts of Iraq and digging up mounds. It’s a fun read, very cheerful, but one of the difficulties archaeology has is to try to extract itself from being a colonial profession and one of the very big questions now is what does archaeology mean to indigenous people in post-colonial continents?” Read more...
Neal Ascherson, Journalist
