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The History of World Archaeological Congress |
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 10:29 |
Based on a paper presented by Dr Joan Gero at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 18, 1999Introduction
Since the immediate objects of archaeological study are not human beings -- but rather material remains -- archaeology has been thought, by its practitioners and by others, to lack a critical perspective in the modern world. Archaeology is perceived as a curiously a-political, "head-in-the-sand" endeavor with little relevance to contemporary social and political life. In this brief paper I argue that archaeology indeed has undertaken its own critical trajectory parallel to the critical perspectives that have developed in other areas of anthropology, and that this perspective motivates and is most visible in the World Archaeological Congress. |
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