Decolonizing the Practice of Archaeology through Collaboration and Community Engagement: Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned
Author(s): Heather N Atherton; Kelly M Britt
Year: 2018
Summary
Collaboration or Consultation—while both terms involve working with stakeholders; consultation implies a formulaic, reactionary response or product that can produce negative connotations. In contrast,collaboration suggests a voluntary, shared method and a mutual goal, invoking more positive associations. Within archaeology, collaboration is not a new practice. Yet the task of decolonizing the practice of archaeology within academia and the public sector is easier said than done. Through lessons learned and best-practices, this poster tackles the challenges of engaging in an archaeological practice that is collaborative and dialectic. Issues we seek to address include collaborative successes, failures, resolutions to contentious situations, and the theoretical underpinnings of engaging with community and public archaeologies in various sectors of employment including federal compliance, cultural resource management, education and museum-based institutions.
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Decolonizing the Practice of Archaeology through Collaboration and Community Engagement: Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned. Heather N Atherton, Kelly M Britt. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441678)
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Keywords
General
collaboration
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decolonization
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Post-colonial
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Post-colonial
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 1043