Another Indigenous Feminist on Settler Colonialism in Archaeology

Author(s): Kristen Bos

Year: 2018

Summary

This paper addresses the ongoing phenomenon of settler colonialism that permeates even the best intentioned "decolonizing" efforts. This paper gives the same credence to Indigenous and non-Western laws, stories, and epistemologies; practices what Sara Ahmed (2014) calls "citational rebellion;" and putts substantial weight into the lived experiences of Indigenous peoples in order to argue that when white archaeologists capitalize on Indigenous, Black, or People of Colour’s (BIPOC) things, bodies, and stories to further their research or theories (i.e., the ontological turn), their work just recenters whiteness (Tuck and Wang 2012). 


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Another Indigenous Feminist on Settler Colonialism in Archaeology. Kristen Bos. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 445199)

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North America

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min long: -168.574; min lat: 7.014 ; max long: -54.844; max lat: 74.683 ;

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Abstract Id(s): 22249