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By Whose Authority? A Settler Archaeologist’s Approach to Relinquishing Control in Indigenous and Collaborative Archaeologies. (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah E. Cowie.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Research that purposefully redistributes authority can have more ethical and innovative results than standard hierarchical research models. This paper summarizes the results of projects “with, by, and for” (sensu Atalay 2012) Native American communities who had more authority in decision making than standard projects typically do. First, the...