B Angelbeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 19486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Angelbeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Angelbeck |
| SIGNATURE | ANGELBECK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Douglas College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7863-448X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Archaeology as Grounding: Decentring, Detaching and Decolonizing in the Service of Communities
Collaborative archaeologies have transformed relations between archaeologists and descendant communities, yet their most consequential effects remain undertheorized. We argue that such collaborations constitute a form of grounding for both standpoints – whether descendant or archaeologist. Drawing on cases from the Northwest Coast of North America, we show how collaborative archaeological practice reconnects Indigenous peoples with ancestral belo…
Power from Below in Premodern Societies: The Dynamics of Political Complexity in the Archaeological Record
Líĺwat Climbers Could See the Ocean from the Peak of Qẃelqẃelústen: Evaluating Oral Traditions with Viewshed Analyses from the Mount Meager Volcanic Complex Prior to Its 2360 BP Eruption
Among Líĺwat people of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, an oral tradition relays how early ancestors used to ascend Qẃelqẃelústen, or Mount Meager. The account maintains that those climbers could see the ocean, which is not the case today, because the mountain is surrounded by many other high peaks, and the Strait of Georgia is several mountain ridges to the west. However, the mountain is an active and volatile volcano, which last erupte…
Anarchisme et archéologie, au passé et au présent
Franz Boas Refracted Through His Local Collaborators: A Legacy with Implications for Collaborative Archaeologies
Collaborative ethnographies and community-based archaeologies have become more commonplace throughout anthropology in recent decades. Well over a century ago, Franz Boas initiated collaborations with Indigenous community members. Some of his Indigenous collaborators became recognized scholars themselves, such as George Hunt (Tlingit/Kwakwaka'wakw) and William Beynon (Tsimshian). He also involved James Teit, a settler from the Shetlands who marrie…
Anarchist Theory and Archaeology
Coyote Broke the Dams: Power, Reciprocity, and Conflict in Fish Weir Narratives and Implications for Traditional and Contemporary Fisheries
This article examines the social and political implications of the geographically widespread and cross-cultural oral narratives related to the releases of salmon into the rivers of the Pacific Northwest through the destruction of weir-dams. Key themes in these narratives provide insights into indigenous concepts of reciprocity and authority, which in turn reveal dimensions of social organization and intercommunity interactions from a new perspect…
Direct Actions and Archaeology: The Lil'wat Peoples Movement to Protect Archaeological Sites
Direct action has been a key tactic of many social and political movements throughout history. Here, we consider the relevance of direct actions for archaeology, both for heritage protection and other forms of archaeological activism. We also discuss collaborative and community-based archaeologies as direct relationships and actions that can help prefigure the non-colonial relationships between archaeologists, indigenous peoples, and heritage. In…
Applying an anarchist lens to the archaeological record. On Borake's 'anarchistic actions' in Scandinavian culture history
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Anarchist Theory and Archaeology
Terraforming and monumentality as long-term social practice in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast of North America
The archaeological record of hunter-gatherer-fishers in the southern Gulf Islands of the Northwest Coast provides evidence of large-scale construction of shell mounds and ridges, houses and villages, production features, defensive earthworks and burial mounds and cairns. Landscapes were terraformed – meaning anthropogenically constructed, modified and maintained – in service of multiple ends. These practices had significant implications for the c…
Archaeology as Therapy: Connecting Belongings, Knowledge, Time, Place, and Well-Being
Our research, teaching, and outreach engagements with descendant communities are identifying a therapeutic role for archaeology. We argue that community-based archaeology-meaning community-directed studies of ancestral places practiced by invitation-can improve individual and communal health and well-being. Archaeology has untapped potential to elicit and confirm connections among people, places, objects, knowledges, ancestries, ecosystems, and w…
The balance of autonomy and alliance in anarchic societies: The organization of defences in the Coast Salish past
Coast Salish peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America were traditionally complex hunter-gatherer-fishers, organized primarily as independent households for most subsistence endeavours. In so doing, they exhibited a strong degree of local and individual autonomy. Sociopolitically, they were anarchic, without formal institutions of government, and their villages were decentralized in structure. Yet they coordinated their defences on scales o…
The Faustian bargain of technological change: Evaluating the socioeconomic effects of the bow and arrow transition in the Coast Salish past
Anarchism and the Archaeology of Anarchic Societies: Resistance to Centralization in the Coast Salish Region of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government. We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing decentralized societies. Anarchism encompasses a broad array of interrelated principles for organizing societies without the centralization of authority. Moreover, its theory of history emphasizes an ongoing and active resistance to concentrations of power. We present an anarch…
The Battle at Maple Bay: The Dynamics of Coast Salish Political Organization Through Oral Histories
In the mid-nineteenth century, an alliance of Coast Salish groups engaged in a maritime canoe battle against the Kwakwaka'wakw Lekwiltok at Maple Bay on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest Coast. This study reflects on the multivocality of twenty-one Coast Salish accounts of the historic battle to consider how independent groups recount a period of broad alliance and unification. These oral narratives commemorate this historic event as a mo…
Anarchism and the Archaeology of Anarchic Societies: Resistance to Centralization in the Coast Salish Region of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government. We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing decentralized societies. Anarchism encompasses a broad array of interrelated principles for organizing societies without the centralization of authority. Moreover, its theory of history emphasizes an ongoing and active resistance to concentrations of power. We present an anarch…
Archaeology as Therapy: Connecting Belongings, Knowledge, Time, Place, and Well-Being
Our research, teaching, and outreach engagements with descendant communities are identifying a therapeutic role for archaeology. We argue that community-based archaeology-meaning community-directed studies of ancestral places practiced by invitation-can improve individual and communal health and well-being. Archaeology has untapped potential to elicit and confirm connections among people, places, objects, knowledges, ancestries, ecosystems, and w…
The balance of autonomy and alliance in anarchic societies: The organization of defences in the Coast Salish past
Coast Salish peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America were traditionally complex hunter-gatherer-fishers, organized primarily as independent households for most subsistence endeavours. In so doing, they exhibited a strong degree of local and individual autonomy. Sociopolitically, they were anarchic, without formal institutions of government, and their villages were decentralized in structure. Yet they coordinated their defences on scales o…
The Battle at Maple Bay: The Dynamics of Coast Salish Political Organization Through Oral Histories
In the mid-nineteenth century, an alliance of Coast Salish groups engaged in a maritime canoe battle against the Kwakwaka'wakw Lekwiltok at Maple Bay on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest Coast. This study reflects on the multivocality of twenty-one Coast Salish accounts of the historic battle to consider how independent groups recount a period of broad alliance and unification. These oral narratives commemorate this historic event as a mo…
Coyote Broke the Dams: Power, Reciprocity, and Conflict in Fish Weir Narratives and Implications for Traditional and Contemporary Fisheries
This article examines the social and political implications of the geographically widespread and cross-cultural oral narratives related to the releases of salmon into the rivers of the Pacific Northwest through the destruction of weir-dams. Key themes in these narratives provide insights into indigenous concepts of reciprocity and authority, which in turn reveal dimensions of social organization and intercommunity interactions from a new perspect…
Direct Actions and Archaeology: The Lil'wat Peoples Movement to Protect Archaeological Sites
Direct action has been a key tactic of many social and political movements throughout history. Here, we consider the relevance of direct actions for archaeology, both for heritage protection and other forms of archaeological activism. We also discuss collaborative and community-based archaeologies as direct relationships and actions that can help prefigure the non-colonial relationships between archaeologists, indigenous peoples, and heritage. In…
The Battle at Maple Bay: The Dynamics of Coast Salish Political Organization Through Oral Histories
In the mid-nineteenth century, an alliance of Coast Salish groups engaged in a maritime canoe battle against the Kwakwaka'wakw Lekwiltok at Maple Bay on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest Coast. This study reflects on the multivocality of twenty-one Coast Salish accounts of the historic battle to consider how independent groups recount a period of broad alliance and unification. These oral narratives commemorate this historic event as a mo…
Anarchism and the Archaeology of Anarchic Societies: Resistance to Centralization in the Coast Salish Region of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government. We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing decentralized societies. Anarchism encompasses a broad array of interrelated principles for organizing societies without the centralization of authority. Moreover, its theory of history emphasizes an ongoing and active resistance to concentrations of power. We present an anarch…
The Faustian bargain of technological change: Evaluating the socioeconomic effects of the bow and arrow transition in the Coast Salish past
The balance of autonomy and alliance in anarchic societies: The organization of defences in the Coast Salish past
Coast Salish peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America were traditionally complex hunter-gatherer-fishers, organized primarily as independent households for most subsistence endeavours. In so doing, they exhibited a strong degree of local and individual autonomy. Sociopolitically, they were anarchic, without formal institutions of government, and their villages were decentralized in structure. Yet they coordinated their defences on scales o…
Terraforming and monumentality as long-term social practice in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast of North America
The archaeological record of hunter-gatherer-fishers in the southern Gulf Islands of the Northwest Coast provides evidence of large-scale construction of shell mounds and ridges, houses and villages, production features, defensive earthworks and burial mounds and cairns. Landscapes were terraformed – meaning anthropogenically constructed, modified and maintained – in service of multiple ends. These practices had significant implications for the c…
Archaeology as Therapy: Connecting Belongings, Knowledge, Time, Place, and Well-Being
Our research, teaching, and outreach engagements with descendant communities are identifying a therapeutic role for archaeology. We argue that community-based archaeology-meaning community-directed studies of ancestral places practiced by invitation-can improve individual and communal health and well-being. Archaeology has untapped potential to elicit and confirm connections among people, places, objects, knowledges, ancestries, ecosystems, and w…
Anarchist Theory and Archaeology
Direct Actions and Archaeology: The Lil'wat Peoples Movement to Protect Archaeological Sites
Direct action has been a key tactic of many social and political movements throughout history. Here, we consider the relevance of direct actions for archaeology, both for heritage protection and other forms of archaeological activism. We also discuss collaborative and community-based archaeologies as direct relationships and actions that can help prefigure the non-colonial relationships between archaeologists, indigenous peoples, and heritage. In…
Applying an anarchist lens to the archaeological record. On Borake's 'anarchistic actions' in Scandinavian culture history
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Anarchist Theory and Archaeology
Coyote Broke the Dams: Power, Reciprocity, and Conflict in Fish Weir Narratives and Implications for Traditional and Contemporary Fisheries
This article examines the social and political implications of the geographically widespread and cross-cultural oral narratives related to the releases of salmon into the rivers of the Pacific Northwest through the destruction of weir-dams. Key themes in these narratives provide insights into indigenous concepts of reciprocity and authority, which in turn reveal dimensions of social organization and intercommunity interactions from a new perspect…
Anarchisme et archéologie, au passé et au présent
Franz Boas Refracted Through His Local Collaborators: A Legacy with Implications for Collaborative Archaeologies
Collaborative ethnographies and community-based archaeologies have become more commonplace throughout anthropology in recent decades. Well over a century ago, Franz Boas initiated collaborations with Indigenous community members. Some of his Indigenous collaborators became recognized scholars themselves, such as George Hunt (Tlingit/Kwakwaka'wakw) and William Beynon (Tsimshian). He also involved James Teit, a settler from the Shetlands who marrie…
Power from Below in Premodern Societies: The Dynamics of Political Complexity in the Archaeological Record
Líĺwat Climbers Could See the Ocean from the Peak of Qẃelqẃelústen: Evaluating Oral Traditions with Viewshed Analyses from the Mount Meager Volcanic Complex Prior to Its 2360 BP Eruption
Among Líĺwat people of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, an oral tradition relays how early ancestors used to ascend Qẃelqẃelústen, or Mount Meager. The account maintains that those climbers could see the ocean, which is not the case today, because the mountain is surrounded by many other high peaks, and the Strait of Georgia is several mountain ridges to the west. However, the mountain is an active and volatile volcano, which last erupte…
Archaeology as Grounding: Decentring, Detaching and Decolonizing in the Service of Communities
Collaborative archaeologies have transformed relations between archaeologists and descendant communities, yet their most consequential effects remain undertheorized. We argue that such collaborations constitute a form of grounding for both standpoints – whether descendant or archaeologist. Drawing on cases from the Northwest Coast of North America, we show how collaborative archaeological practice reconnects Indigenous peoples with ancestral belo…
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