Interdisciplinary Solutions for Intradisciplinary Setbacks: An Eclectic Approach to Problem Solving

Summary

Disciplines across the social and physical sciences often encounter similar setbacks; however,  intradisciplinary solutions addressing these setbacks are rarely identical, or transimplementable. Issues such as where to locate funding, how to organizing and streamline access to knowledge, and how to garner public support for the discipline rather than shallow substitutes (e.g. archaeology over treasure hunting) are longstanding setbacks - ones that are not unique to our discipline, alone.  Lessons from modern business, management, and marketing fields, parks, recreation, and tourism industries, and the broader disciplines of philosophy, psychology, and political science are presented here as potential alternatives to these issues.  Eclectic approaches are often misused and criticized, but typically this is because of a failure to "correlate contexts" - the key step that allows for successful transimpementation of related, but not identical, concepts.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Setbacks and Solutions Within Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2017

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