Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique

by Liebmann, Matthew; Rizvi, Uzma Z.; Borgstede, Greg; Cipolla, Craig N.; Gullapalli, Praveena; Liebmann, Matthew; Lilley, Ian; Pagán Jiménez, Jaime R.; Patterson, Thomas C.; Preucel, Robert W.; Ramos, Reniel Rodriguez; Scham, Sandra; Seneviratne, Sudharshan

• ISBN13: 9780759110052
• ISBN10: 0759110050
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-16
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

In recent years, postcolonial theories have emerged as one of the significant paradigms of contemporary academia, affecting disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. These theories address the complex processes if colonialism on culture and society--with repect to both the colonizers and the colonized--to help us understand the colonial experience in its entirety. The contributors to Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique present critical syntheses of archaeological and postcolonial studies by examining both Old and New World case studies, and they ask what the ultimate effect of postcolonial theorizing will be on the practice of archaeology in the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

Matthew Liebmann is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Uzma Z. Rizvi is assistant professor in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, and of Critical and Visual Studies at the Pratt Institute.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: The Intersections of Archaeology and Postcolonial Studies	p. 1
A Brief History of Postcolonial Theory and Implications for Archaeology	p. 21
Heterogeneous Encounters: Colonial Histories and Archaeological Experiences	p. 35
Toward the Liberation of Archaeological Praxis in a "Postcolonial Colony": The Case of Puerto Rico	p. 53
Postcolonial Cultural Affiliation: Essentialism, Hybridity, and NAGPRA	p. 73
Notions of Cultural Continuity and Disjunction in Maya Social Movements and Maya Archaeology	p. 91
Decolonizing Methodologies as Strategies of Practice: Operationalizing the Postcolonial Critique in the Archaeology of Rajasthan	p. 109
Indigenous and Postcolonial Archaeologies	p. 129
Archaeology, The World Bank, and Postcolonial Politics	p. 141
Disinheriting Heritage: Explorations in the Contentious History of Archaeology in the Middle East	p. 165
Situating World Heritage Sites in a Multicultural Society: The Ideology of Presentation at the Sacred City of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka	p. 177
Conclusion: Archaeological Futures and the Postcolonial Critique	p. 197
References	p. 205
Index	p. 255
Author Biographies	p. 263
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