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Activist Archaeology and Participatory Action Research (PAR): Praxis in Action (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper focuses on the ways that archaeological praxis shifts when we embrace the political nature of all archaeology. Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides a method for archaeologists to work as both archaeologists and activists with communities, connecting the past to current injustices. This better allows their work to be...