Materiality and Movement: Indigenous Concepts in Archaeological Analysis and Interpretation

Summary

As investigations of cultures’ material pasts, archaeology’s units of analysis are tactile. The concepts we employ need material referents in order to be accessible to archaeological analysis and interpretation. To bring together the scientific method of archaeology with Indigenous frameworks, material referents of Indigenous concepts necessarily require theorizing the dynamic relationship between culture, time, and place in concert with Indigenous perspectives. In scaffolding theoretical structures that are useful to archaeologically understanding Indigenous pasts and building a more inclusive archaeology, our interpretations must account for the movement inherent in many Indigenous worldviews and attempt to work without strict adherence to traditional ideas of static moments in linear time.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Applying Indigenous Frameworks for Archaeological Analysis and Interpretation

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Abstract Id(s): 13241