Collaboration in Archaeological Practice Engaging Descendant Communities

by Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip; Ferguson, T. J.

• ISBN13: 9780759110540
• ISBN10: 0759110549
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-28
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

In Collaboration in Archaeological Practice, prominent archaeologists reflect on their experiences involving collaboration with descendant communities (peoples whose ancestors are the subject of archaeological research).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction: The Collaborative Continuum	p. 1
Knowledge
Navigating the Fluidity of Social Identity: Collaborative Research into Cultural Affiliation in the American Southwest	p. 35
Unusual or "Extreme" Beliefs about the Past, Community Identity, and Dealing with the Fringe	p. 55
Things Are Not Always What They Seem: Indigenous Knowledge and Pattern Recognition in the Archaeological Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes	p. 87
Ethics
Not the End, Not the Middle, But the Beginning: Repatriation as a Transformative Mechanism for Archaeologists and Indigenous Peoples	p. 119
Heritage Ethics and Descendant Communities	p. 131
Collaboration Means Equality, Respect, and Reciprocity: A Conversation about Archaeology and the Hopi Tribe	p. 151
The Ethics of Collaboration: Whose Culture? Whose Intellectual Property? Who Benefits?	p. 171
Practice
New Africa: Understanding the Americanization of African Descent Groups through Archaeology	p. 203
"I Wish for Paradise": Memory and Class in Hampden, Baltimore	p. 225
Entering the Agora: Archaeology, Conservation, and Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon	p. 243
Collaborative Encounters	p. 273
Index	p. 299
About the Contributors	p. 315
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