by Elissa Z. Faro (Dartmouth College) January 20, 2009. On this historic day, when Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America, the issues that Hamilakis considers in this book – the relationship between the modern nation-state and its historical and material past – resonate anew. Hamilakis’ book…
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A response to Philip Duke’s The Tourists Gaze, the Cretans Glance: Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island (2007).
Elissa Z. Faro (Dartmouth College) I was lucky enough to read this book for the first time sitting on the beach outside Rethymnon on Crete. At first, I felt as though I were cheating – “working” while enjoying myself at the seaside on a beautiful Greek summer day. On the contrary, only a few pages…