The ideal and the real

Cultural and personal transformations of archaeological research on Groote Eylandt, northern Australia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3918690
AutoresAnne Clarke (0000-0002-2273-510X, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume34
Fascículo2
Páginas249-264
Data de publicação2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0043824022000007080
OpenAlexW2085981863
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas41
Referências citadas13

Since the early 1970s indigenous people have provided a challenging and often confronting cultural and political critique of some of the long-held givens of archaeological research. Archaeologists engaged in research about Australia's indigenous archaeological record, whether it is the distant past of the Pleistocene or the more immediate past of colonial conquest, have had to rethink some of the fundamental aspects of their practice. In the last ten years one important initiative has been the development of community-based approaches to archaeology. The paper is presented in two parts. The first part provides a brief background to the development of community archaeology in Australia, setting out the main elements of this approach. The second part presents three contexts from Groote Eylandt in northern Australia where I am able to identify the experiences that were pivotal in my shift in practice to a community-based archaeology

Ancient history · Archaeological record · Archaeology · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Historical archaeology · Ideal (ethics · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology