Working Toward an Activist Landscape Archaeology
Author(s): Becca Peixotto
Year: 2013
Summary
Landscape archaeologies in the United States and Europe encompass diverse goals, scales and scopes allowing many perspectives to emerge from the archaeological study of related sites. This paper explores ways in which US-based scholars could draw upon approaches and theories from across the Atlantic to move toward an activist landscape archaeology that engages descendant communities, the public, and land managers through a focus on how people have interacted with and within a broad regional landscape since the emergence of global capitalism. Using archaeological case studies such as the remote wetlands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina, the paper discusses the possibilities of employing landscape-oriented archaeology to affect change in the way various stakeholders view their relationships with each other, their historical predecessors, and the landscape itself.
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Working Toward an Activist Landscape Archaeology. Becca Peixotto. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428530)
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Keywords
General
activism
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Landscape
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Theory
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1660-1860
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 570