By Quetzil Castaneda, Christopher N. Matthews
Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a kind of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that come up as students query older, extra positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes assorted tools, goals, and rationalities at the moment hired within the making of engaged and collaborative archaeological research.The members to this quantity, for instance, comprehend ethnographic archaeology variously as a method of serious engagement with historical past stakeholders, because the foundation of public-policy debates, as a serious archaeological research of ethnic teams, because the learn of what archaeology truly does (as against what researchers frequently imagine they're doing) in excavations and surveys, and as a starting place for transnational collaborations between archaeologists. What retains the time period 'ethnographic archaeology' coherent and appropriate is the consensus between practitioners that they're embarking on a brand new archaeological direction by means of trying to interact the current at once and essentially.
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In chapter 7, “Real People or Reconstructed People? Ethnocritical Archaeology, Ethnography, and Community Building,” Larry Zimmerman presents a programmatic vision of what he calls ethnocritical archaeology. Based on his extensive work with diverse archaeological projects and field schools researching the Native American past, he has developed a series of collaborative practices of ethnography, knowledge exchange, self-critique, and reflexivity that are especially salutary examples of ethnographic archaeology.
Castañeda defines three general strategies by which ethnography can be incorporated into a vision of archaeology: first as thick description of research practices, second, as the ethnographic study of research positioning, and third as a means of transcultural exchange. In his discussion of the inevitable questions of reflexivity that are raised by the ethnographic study of archaeology, Castañeda suggests downplaying the significance of reflexivity in relation to the more crucial criteria and value of ethics.
5. Archaeology—Field work. I. Castañeda, Quetzil E. II. 48-1992. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgments Introduction - Ethnography and the Social Construction of Archaeology 1 - The “Ethnographic Turn” in Archaeology 2 - A Critical Assessment of Ethnography in Archaeology 3 - A Dangerously Elusive Method 4 - The Foundations of Archaeology 5 - The Pageantry of Archaeology 6 - The Location of Archaeology 7 - Real People or Reconstructed People? Index About the Contributors Acknowledgments This book emerges out of Wenner-Gren Workshop held at the Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology, Chichén Itzá, Mexico, in June 2005.