Constructing heritage:Archaeology and the post-Soviet heritage production – the case of Arkaim
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Sobre Diversidad Cultural
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La Rusia post-soviética es una sociedad plural donde las opiniones de las minorías sobre el pasado están bien representadas y compiten entre sí por el patrimonio cultural. En contraste con el período soviético, los arqueólogos han perdido su posición como los únicos guías e intérpretes del pasado remoto. Hoy en día, son desafiados por productores de "pasado alternativo", líderes de nuevos movimientos religiosos, científicos esotéricos, empresarios étnicos y políticos radicales. "A quién pertenece el pasado" se convirtió en un tema candente. En este artículo analizaré una lucha dramática por el sitio de la Edad del Bronce de Arkaim entre los arqueólogos y sus opositores, y explorararé cómo ese sitio arqueológico se convirtió en un centro importante para varios movimientos religiosos postsoviéticos, quienes son los que visitan Arkaim hoy en día y por qué lo hacen. Haciendo esto, qué están buscando allí, qué símbolos están construyendo en las colinas circundantes, y cómo tratan los restos arqueológicos.
Post-Soviet Russia is a plural society where minorities’ views of the past are well represented and compete with each other for cultural heritage. By contrast to the Soviet period, archaeologists have lost their position as the only guides to and interpreters of the remote past. Nowadays, they are challenged by producers of “alternative past”, leaders of New Religious Movements, esoteric scientists, ethnic entrepreneurs, and radical politicians. “Who owns the past” became a hot issue. I will analyze a dramatic struggle for a Bronze Age site of Arkaim between archaeologists and their opponents and explore how an archaeological site became an important center for several post-Soviet religious movements, who are those people visiting Arkaim nowadays, and why are they doing this, what are they searching there, what symbols they are constructing at the surrounding hills, and how they treat archaeological remains.
Post-Soviet Russia is a plural society where minorities’ views of the past are well represented and compete with each other for cultural heritage. By contrast to the Soviet period, archaeologists have lost their position as the only guides to and interpreters of the remote past. Nowadays, they are challenged by producers of “alternative past”, leaders of New Religious Movements, esoteric scientists, ethnic entrepreneurs, and radical politicians. “Who owns the past” became a hot issue. I will analyze a dramatic struggle for a Bronze Age site of Arkaim between archaeologists and their opponents and explore how an archaeological site became an important center for several post-Soviet religious movements, who are those people visiting Arkaim nowadays, and why are they doing this, what are they searching there, what symbols they are constructing at the surrounding hills, and how they treat archaeological remains.
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