Challenges of Community-Based Heritage Work: Rights Holders, Stakeholders, and the Palimpsest Nature of the Archaeological Record

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Preservation projects differentially affect rights holder and stakeholder communities. Heritage management professionals can try to accommodate such disparate communities through active collaboration, consultation, and accountability practices. Yet, compliance practices in the heritage profession, as well as the political-economic dynamics and legal architecture behind them, variously structure, constrain, and empower avenues for engagement with affected communities. This can result in a failure both to consider and pursue consultation and collaboration with certain ethical clients. This poster explores the complicated history of ownership, occupation, and heritage imaginaries in the development of site management practices for part of the S’eḏav Va’aki (formerly known as Pueblo Grande) Museum and Archaeological Park in Phoenix, Arizona. To overcome such challenges, heritage professionals must grapple with the totality of material remains and land-use histories and commit to active community engagement as an essential part of any project, rather than passive means of providing opportunities for consultation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki

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Abstract Id(s): 40371.0