Intersectional Heritage

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Dialogue as Defense: Addressing Preservation Threats with Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk (CCHAR)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Archaeologists have historically been a part of the heritage-making process that impacts communities, whether intentionally or not. The integration of intersectional theory and the methodological approach of engaging the community for their perspective was a tool in developing the concept of equitable heritage-making. Community conversations with community members in Apalachicola, Florida offered ethnographic evidence on the socioeconomic factors that impact a community's heritage. Through a mix-methods approach, community conversations revealed the importance of Marronage in Florida, and its significance to the African American community. Using community conversations as a dual method along with underwater archaeological surveys highlighted the importance of using ethnographic data when archaeological data may not be present.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Dialogue as Defense: Addressing Preservation Threats with Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk (CCHAR)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow