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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Increasingly, the study of Global Black and Afrodiasporic placemaking strategies appears to be of interest to archaeologists. Yet, the focus on these past stories also reveals countless colonial wounds and contemporary structures of violence which the archaeological discipline oftentimes is complicit in maintaining. Rather than...
Sankofa Archaeology: "Going Back" as an Afrodecolonial Methodology (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Considering the urgent need to decolonize the field of archaeology, this work attempts to reformulate theoretical and methodological archaeological approaches based on Afroguianese and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, space, materiality and knowledge. This re-understanding of the field of archaeology was provoked and defined by my own place as...