Engaged Archaeology

Smith, Claire; Ralph, Jordan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_2646

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“…Engaging with such a wide range of topics encourages students to reach far beyond the usual disciplinary box of archaeology to encompass an engaged approach that centres community needs and aspirations. This is part of a wider movement in engaged archaeology (Smith 2015;Chesson et al 2019;Smith and Ralph 2020).…”

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An engaged archaeology field school with a remote aboriginal community: Successes, failures, and challenges

Smith

Jackson

Ralph

et al. 2020

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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This paper presents an analysis of the longest-running archaeological field school in Australia, the Barunga Community Archaeology Field School, which has been operating annually for over 20 years, since 1998. The overarching aim of this field school is for students to learn about Aboriginal culture from Aboriginal people and to experience the cultural protocols that apply when conducting archaeological research in a remote Aboriginal community. This article frankly identifies the longterm successes, failures, and challenges of this field school. The successes are less in the field of archaeology and more in the areas of growing cross-cultural understandings through the development of relationships between different peoples. The failures are largely to do with the physical challenges of the remote area location of the field school. The challenges are primarily due to understanding and reconciling the differences between Aboriginal and European epistemological and ontological ways of knowing and being.

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Section: Successesmentioning

confidence: 99%