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Zainab Bahrani

Iraqi archaeologist

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Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
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“Since human civilisation was thought to originate in Mesopotamia, and this civilisation was transferred from the East to the West, the two justifications for the archaeological expeditions were repeatedly stated as being the search for the ‘roots’ of Western culture and to locate the places referred to in the Old Testament. (Bahrani 1999: 166)”

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New York University Institute of Fine Arts

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1962 births Academic staff of the University of Vienna Columbia University faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Iraqi archaeologists Iraqi Assyriologists Iraqi emigrants to the United States Iraqi women academics Iraqi women archaeologists Iraqi women curators Living people New York University Institute of Fine Arts alumni

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“Archaeology, like other human sciences such as anthropology and history, allowed a European mapping of the subjugated terrain of the Other. While ethnography portrayed the colonised native as a savage requiring Western education and whose culture needed modernisation, archaeology and its practices provided a way of charting the past of colonised lands. (Bahrani 1999: 160)”

“This obsessive desire to disassociate the past of the region from its present and to present it instead as a primitive stage in the evolution of mankind facilitated the concept of ‘Mesopotamia’ as the rightful domain of the West […] (Bahrani 1999: 166)”

“The image of Mesopotamia, upon which we still depend, was necessary for a march of progress from East to West, a concept of world cultural development that is explicitly Eurocentric and imperialist. (Bahrani 1999: 172)”

“The creation of a historical narrative in which space and time became transcendental horizons for the Being—Mesopotamia, was part of the larger discursive project through which Europe attempted its mastery of the colonised. The narrative of the progress of civilisation was an invention of European imperialism, a way of constructing history in its own image and claiming precedence for Western culture. (Bahrani 1999: 171)”

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