Sound of Theory
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
The folk have sung, on YouTube: enough of personalities. This session brings in responsible scientists, responsible in that they respond to empirical data, to stakeholders, communities, and descendants, and to basic principles of the historical sciences, including IBE, inference to the best explanation. Evidence-based practices let theory flow from encountered data, evaluated not only from Western Enlightenment suppositions of universal regularities, but also from the realities understood by communities from other cultural epistemologies. Ethics as well as politics must not be magicked away from archaeologists' work toward inferences to the best explanations
Other Keywords
heritage •
archaeological practice •
Conservation •
Ethics •
Theories •
Landscape Archaeology •
ontology •
collaboration •
Nationalism •
Indigenous Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
AFRICA •
Europe •
South Asia •
North America - Northeast •
West Asia
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-11 of 11)
- Documents (11)
- Co-practice amongst Non-Western Peoples: Abandoning Theory at Center Stage (2015)
- Conserving the Buddhist stupas and religious nationalism in Sri Lanka (2015)
- Contextualizing the theory of archaeological theorization (2015)
- Empirical honesty and the ethical role of archaeologists in divided societies (2015)
- Empirical Imperialism and the Development of Indigenous Archaeologies (2015)
- Healing Archaeology (2015)
- Instigating Technological Knowledge through an African Ontology (2015)
- Introduction: Evidence-based practice versus Ivory Tower careers (2015)
- "Knowledge Without Action…": Shifting Frames of Reference in Archaeology Theory and Practice (2015)
- Silence and Noise in the Archaeological Record: are archaeological understandings always underdetermined? (2015)
- Whose Ancestors, les Gaulois? (2015)