The Archaeology of Immateriality |
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Authors: | Elizabeth S Chilton |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 240 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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Abstract: | Despite changes in archaeological theory and practice over the past 40 years, most archaeologists are still not very good at acknowledging that “significance” is context-dependent and non-material. In this paper I present two cases studies from New England where archaeologists collaborated with Native peoples on sites that had significant preservation concerns. I evaluate to what extent these projects were successful in their goal of decolonizing archaeology. I call for a definition of materiality that acknowledges that tangible objects and their intangible contexts and meanings are inextricable, and that values are continuously created and recreated in the present by a variety of memory communities. |
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