Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonising Theory and Practice

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Claire Smith, H. Martin Wobst
Routledge, Nov 10, 2004 - Social Science - 432 pages
With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This involves fundamental changes in archaeological theory and practice as well as substantive changes in the power relations between archaeologists and indigenous peoples. Questions concerning the development of ethical archaeological practices are at the heart of this process.
 

Contents

List of figures
Series editors foreword
the theory and method behind
Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing as theoretical and methodological
Kerry ReedGilbert
Algonkian Indian stories and the landscape
archaeological impacts
Keepers of the Indigenous past
No Blacks
Yarrawarra Place
Heather Harris
a conversation at Firewood Creek
African Americans reclaiming the Indigenous past
working with Indigenous peoples and other descendant
Phyllis Wiynjorroc Peter Manabaru Nell Brown and Andrew Warner
Gary Jackson and Claire Smith

reflections on the nineteenthcentury archaeology of Harlan L
Heather Harris
Heather Harris
David Kirkby
Heather Harris
Claire Smith and H Martin Wobst

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About the author (2004)

Claire Smith is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in Flinders University. Since 1990, she has conducted filedwork with Indigenous people in Australia, Asia and North America.

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