Decency and Dissent

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Alice: Recognizing the Many Contributions of Alice Beck Kehoe" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Alice Kehoe has been the reliable voice of reason in archaeology during my entire career. She championed women when the disciplinary hierarchy was a patriarchy that didn't see any problem. She advocated for Indigenous participation in knowledge production before terms like community and identity and colonialism became a part of our academic discourse. She has continued to do good science long after too many sucessful archaeologists forgot what science really is and why it matters. And Alice Kehoe has never patronized anyone by agreeing with them or used her scholarship to spoil the conversation. Her originality and salutary alterity have done more to strengthen archaeology as a science and as an ethical practice than most scholars could ever hope to achieve.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Celebrating Alice: Recognizing the Many Contributions of Alice Beck Kehoe   •
• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

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Abstract Id(s): 52117