Ethnography, Engagement, Evaluations, and Endings

The Achievements and Limitations of Community Outreach at Çatalhöyük

Bibliographic Data

ID4587388
AuthorsAllison Mickel (0000-0002-3218-8939), Patrycja Filipowicz (0000-0002-2080-7499), Lucy Bennison-Chapman, Lucy E Bennison-Chapman (0000-0003-1978-942X)
Year2020
Volume83
Issue3
Pages182-190
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNear Eastern Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1094-2076 • E-ISSN: 1557-5594
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/710253
OpenAlexW3088165287
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

Since the 1990s, the Çatalhöyük Research Project has made community engagement a central part of its research methodology. With the ending of the project, it is essential to review the achievements and limitations of the strategies employed at the site. We consider the transformation of community outreach and involvement over the years of the project, from the ethnoarchaeological and experimental archaeology components in the 1990s, through the capacity building initiatives of the 2000s, to the ethnographies and evaluations that characterized the concluding years of the project. While discrete initiatives over the course of the project deserve recognition and celebration, overall community engagement remained a tangential, rather than core, aspect of the Çatalhöyük Research Project-and one that was limited by the conflicting interests of the diverse communities for whom the site holds importance

Community engagement · Conflict transformation · Ethnography · Outreach · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Law

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