Where do we go from here? researching and interpreting the African-American experience

Matthews, Christy S.

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Hist Arch

1997

DOI: 10.1007/bf03374234

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Where do we go from here? researching and interpreting the African-American experience

Christy S. Matthews

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“…Archaeologists are in creasingly considering the political impacts of their re search on descendant populations and the general public. An integral part of this process involves learning how to give a stronger voice to a multitude of archaeological publics (e.g., Franklin 1997b, Hodder '997, LaRoche and Blakey 1997, Matthews 1997, McDavid and Babson 1997, McKee 1994, Potter 1994, Wylie 1985. A growing num ber of archaeologists (e.g., Epperson 1990 Franklin T997bi McDavid 1997; Schmidt and Patterson 1995J arc calling upon their colleagues to challenge ideologies that naturalize structures of inequality.…”

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A Critical Archaeology Revisited

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Current Anthropology

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. The University of Chicago Press and Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Current Anthropology.In 1987, a small number of historical archaeologists issued a call for archaeologists to embrace the teachings of critical theory so that their research could be used to challenge societal structures of inequality. Although community partnering, an outgrowth of critical theory, has become increasingly important to archaeological practice, a true archaeological "praxis" has yet to be achieved. Possible reasons for this include a decontextualization of critical theory from its historical origin, the subsequent reification of capitalism in critical research, and the obscuring of agency in critical interpretations because of an emphasis on topdown or macroscale models of society. We suggest that true praxis can be achieved in historical archaeology through a reconceptualization of the relationship between individuals and society and through a structuring of archaeological research that seeks to create a discursive relationship between past and present peoples and between researchers and community partners. We present a critically informed archaeological case study from Louisiana to demonstrate how such a dialogue can lead to emanicipatory knowledge.l a u r i e a .

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A Critical Archaeology Revisited

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Current Anthropology

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Considering the Future of African American Archaeology

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2004

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Public Face and Private Life: Identity through Ceramics at the Boston-Higginbotham House on Nantucket

Cacchione

2019

Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage

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Where do we go from here? researching and interpreting the African-American experience

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A Critical Archaeology Revisited

A Critical Archaeology Revisited

Considering the Future of African American Archaeology

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