The Archaeology of Forgetting, and the Dorset

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Forgetting, an attendant to culture change, is the stuff of history. When cultural innovations, exchange, and adoption occur, previous customs, knowledge, technology, and other dimensions of culture are lost—they are forgotten. This paper considers the phenomenon of forgetting and its permutations—the passive forgetting that is more or less an accepted outcome of change, the willful forgetting of erasure, and the accidental forgetting that is unintentional and undesired—as a way of understanding culture loss among the Dorset PaleoInuit peoples of the Eastern North American Arctic.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37792.0