"Soundcheck": On the Status of Native American Oral Histories in Archaeological Practice

Summary

Many archaeologists support the inclusion of Native American oral histories in archaeological practice; however, the use of oral histories in archaeology is not systematic or singular. In order to develop a clearer picture of the application of oral history in American archaeology, I quantified and analyzed the use of oral histories in peer-reviewed articles. This poster presents the results of an analysis of journals in American archaeology from 1980 to the present that demonstrate the different uses to which oral histories are put, the frequency with which oral histories are used in archaeological practice and the contributions oral histories make to our archaeological understanding of the past.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• CRM, Kinteel, and the Community of Wide Ruins

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