Applying the Theory of Heart-Centered Archaeology to Issues of Exclusion in Archaeology

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper will work to explore not only the basis and creation of the theory of Heart-Centered Archaeology, but the way that it can be used to overcome the various issues of exclusion in archaeology that persist to this day. It will be compared to other theoretical approaches and broken down into the merits and drawbacks of Archaeology of the Heart compared to the others. Exclusion will also be explored independently, as it exists within and between archaeologists and from archaeologists to other communities. Then each issue will be given a specific approach built out of the tenets of Heart-Centered Archaeology. As the theory is an Indigenous ontology, the paper will focus primarily on applications in Native and community spaces, but will venture beyond that, and into other spaces. The paper will conclude with the viability of emotive archaeology as a way to approach fixing long-standing exclusion, using an analysis of its success and results in various conditions across the world.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 53016