Connecting Working Class History with Working Class Culture: Activist Archaeology in the Portland Neighborhood
Author(s): M. Jay Stottman
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Communicating Working Class Heritage in the 21st Century: Values, Lessons, Methods, and Meanings" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Is working class history being forgotten? What is working class heritage to the working class today? This paper will examine the relationship between working class people and their history. It also will critically analyze academia’s role in preserving this history and its inherent disconnect from working class culture. Within an activist framework, archaeologist can help connect the working class with the past and advocate for present day communities. I will focus on ethnographic research and public archaeology conducted in the working class neighborhood of Portland located in Louisville, Kentucky as a case study to illustrate archaeology’s activist potential for working class culture.
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Connecting Working Class History with Working Class Culture: Activist Archaeology in the Portland Neighborhood. M. Jay Stottman. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 448972)
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Keywords
General
activism
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Public Archaeology
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working class heritage
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th - 20th Century
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): 346