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Archaeology and Capitalism
The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they insist that archaeology must rethink its muted professional stance and become more overtly active agents of change. The discipline is not about an abstract \"archaeological record\" but about living individuals and communities, whose lives and heritage suffer from the abuse of power relationships with states and their agents. Only by recognizing this power disparity, and adopting a political ethic for the discipline, can archaeology justify its activities. Chapters range from a critique of traditional ethical codes, to examinations of the capitalist motivations and structures within the discipline, to calls for an engaged, emancipatory archaeology that improves the lives of the people with whom archaeologists work.
A direct challenge to the discipline, this volume will provoke discussion, disagreement, and inspiration for many in the field.
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Indigenous archaeologies : decolonizing theory and practice
With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This involves fundamental changes in archaeological theory and practice as well as substantive changes in the power relations between archaeologists and indigenous peoples. Questions concerning the development of ethical archaeological practices are at the heart of this process.
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Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities
Cultural property and its stewardship have long been concerns of
museums, archaeologists, art historians, and nations, but recently
the legal and political consequences of collecting antiquities have
also attracted broad media attention. This has been the result, in
part, of several high-profile trials, as well as demands by various
governments for the return of antiquities to their countries of
origin.
These circumstances call out for public discussion that moves
beyond the rather clear-cut moral response to looting, to consider
the implications of buying, selling, and exhibiting antiquities. To
whom should they belong? What constitutes legal ownership of
antiquities? What laws govern their importation into the United
States, for instance? What circumstances, if any, demand the return
of those antiquities to their countries of origin? Is there a
consensus among archaeologists and museum directors about these
issues?
These and other pertinent issues are addressed in the essays and
responses collected in this volume. Delivered at a 2007 symposium
by eminent museum directors and curators, legal scholars,
archaeologists, and historians and practitioners of art and
architecture, these papers comprise a rich and nuanced reference
work.
Contributors: Malcolm Bell III, Nancy Bookidis, Douglas E.
Bradley, James Cuno, Dennis P. Doordan, Patty Gerstenblith, Charles
R. Loving, Michael Lykoudis, Joanne M. Mack, Mary Ellen O'Connell,
Robin F. Rhodes, Marcia Rickard, Kimerly Rorschach, C. Brian Rose,
Charles Rosenberg, Stefano Vassallo, Charles K. Williams II.
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Indigenous Archaeologies
With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This involves fundamental changes in archaeological theory and practice as well as substantive changes in the power relations between archaeologists and indigenous peoples. Questions concerning the development of ethical archaeological practices are at the heart of this process.
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50 years young or A brief look from the garden of Eden
It seems that, whatever else, archaeologists in Australia can never be accused of ignoring the value of self-evaluation. I cannot tell a lie, but just over half-a-century ago and thus a touch before the birth of our Society, I find I was concerned with examining 'what, if any, underlying principles have motivated research into the past of the Australian Aborigine' (Megaw 1966:306). If that was not enough, two decades later I published a paper originally prepared as the concluding presentation at the Australian Society for Historical Archaeology's 1982 conference at which the theme was 'Talking rubbish: or what does archaeology mean to the historian?' (Megaw 1984). My paper contained two favourite quotations of mine; in 1975 Glyn Daniel, one of archaeology's pre-eminent historians, referred to 'a back-looking curiosity', borrowing from William Camden, the sixteenth-century English antiquary, for the title of his Cambridge Inaugural lecture (Daniel 1976). Secondly, my Edinburgh teacher, Stuart Piggott, stated that 'an understanding of the history of own's subject is a great help in thinking clearly about its problems' (Piggott 1959, 14). Looking again at my 35-year-old jeu d'esprit what strikes me is that the basic issue raised in it--the relationship of text-based history to object-based archaeology which I attempted to support by citations from the United Kingdom, the United States, and of course Australia--far from no longer being a matter for debate has continued as a Leitmotif through the pages of the Society's publications.
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Coming into contact
This short paper briefly, and partially, reviews the origins and development of the historical archaeology of Aboriginal Australia – popularly rendered as Contact Archaeology – and presents an updated personal vision of the future of this field. My account rests firmly on the argument that the nature of historical accounts of Aboriginal Australia have changed, and will continue to change, in ways that reflect the reality of lives shared with non-Aboriginal Australians. The many issues raised by the history of distinctiveness, separation and mutuality – both black and white – provide the most powerful context for making history in this complex and challenging sub-field of historical archaeology.
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Historical archaeology in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2004–2019
There have been several reviews of the practice of historical archaeology in Aotearoa New Zealand since the discipline’s beginnings, most recently by the late Ian Smith in 2004. Since then, historical archaeology has become a mainstay of archaeology in Aotearoa New Zealand, but has it risen to the challenges Smith outlined then? This paper outlines the current state of historical archaeology in Aotearoa New Zealand and examines how the discipline has grown and changed since 2004, exploring 185 publications, theses and reports produced up to the year 2019. More importantly, it considers whether or not the problems identified in 2004 have been addressed, and what new challenges the discipline faces in 2020.
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