Archaeology, Shadowed Pasts, and the Making of Heritage
Author(s): Bonnie J. Clark
Year: 2015
Summary
As Laurajane Smith contents, heritage is not a series of sites, but of practices. Practioners of contemporary archaeology are lodged firmly in that practice, participating through the data we uncover, the stakeholders we engage, and even the media attention we draw to particular historic events but not others. The archaeology of Amache, the site of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp, is a long-term, community-based project focused on a past that has often been muted in historical discourse. As such the project provides a case study of how contemporary archaeology can contribute to the making and remaking of heritage. It does so not only through researching the tangible record, but perhaps even more importantly through the dialogue the archaeology has enabled.
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Archaeology, Shadowed Pasts, and the Making of Heritage. Bonnie J. Clark. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 433742)
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Keywords
General
heritage
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Japanese Americans
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World War II
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
World War II
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): 200