Collaborative and Community Archaeology: Introduction and Some Case Studies

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Collaborative and Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) continues to be an important topic in our profession, encompassing a growing diversity of activities. This session displays a commitment to the concept of conducting research and historic preservation in effective partnership with a wide spectrum of stakeholders as a matter of fairness, ethics, and as a way to create and co-create robust and useful final products. Archaeological projects affect Indigenous peoples, local residents, and descendant communities in many ways. These groups often have relatively little input into what “others” say about, or do with, their heritage. We advance inclusive, community-engaged scholarship that is co-created with relevant communities. The goal of this session and many of the projects discussed is to use community involvement and participation as a way not only to give a voice to groups that have been essentially voiceless, but to empower all stakeholders—especially on projects that involve “multiple pasts.” We discuss the various types of CES as defined by Doberneck, Glass, and Schweitzer (2010) including Research and Creative Activities, Teaching and Learning, Service and Practice, and Commercialized Activities. We also discuss trajectories of developing relationships and projects that can become respectful, useful, and productive CES.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Collaborative and Community Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 32201