Challenging metanarratives
The past lives in the present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6038992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Ro (0000-0002-0683-2997, The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Anne Ross (The University of Queensland) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 65-71 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/arco.5196 |
| OpenAlex | W2980686551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 46 |
It is over 35 years since Langford (1983) called for archaeologists to recognise Aboriginal people's right to control their heritage. Although there have been enormous changes since then in the way Australian archaeologists engage with Traditional Owners in the practice of archaeology and cultural heritage management, several metanarratives that privilege Western knowledge constructs over Indigenous ways of knowing persist. Although such metanarratives continue to be challenged, pockets of entrenched resistance remain. This is seen most clearly in the divide between oral history/Indigenous narrative and science, often expressed as a disconnect between “myth” and “reality” (Ingold 2013; Porr and Matthews 2016). In this paper, I provide an introduction to the papers in this issue, set within a reflection on the challenges to metanarratives that are evolving as a result of the engagement between archaeologists and Indigenous owners of heritage. I emphasise our increasing recognition of the poly‐vocality of “truth” and the validity of Indigenous interpretations of their archaeology and heritage
Archaeology · Art · Cultural heritage · Environmental ethics · Indigenous · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Political science · Privilege (computing · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Classics · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Philosophy · Ecology
The Past is a Foreign Country
Phenomenological Approaches in Landscape Archaeology
Scratching the surface
Thinking from Things
Archaeology of Ancient Australia
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
The Past is a Foreign Country – Revisited
Uses of Heritage
Stonehenge
Multivocality and Indigenous Archaeologies
Deconstructing History
The effects of resource depression on foraging efficiency, diet breadth, and patch use in southern New Zealand
Managing Meaning at an Ancient Site in the 21st Century
Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis
Counter-mapping theory and its application to a constantly changing Aboriginal stone arrangement site
Our Heritage - Your Playground
Three Men in a Boat
Wild Knowledge
Discarding the evidence
Gummingurru –A community archaeology knowledge journey
Singing Saltwater Country
Late Holocene mollusc exploitation and changing near-shore environments
Life on the Margins
Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Niche production strategies and shell matrix site variability at A lbatross B ay, C ape Y ork P eninsula
Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage
Post-processual Landscape Archaeology
Indigenous Archaeology as Decolonizing Practice
Ethnoarchaeology, epistemology, ethics
Decolonial archaeologies
Post-colonialism, human origins and the paradox of modernity
Sitting in the gap
Ethnoarchaeology as slow science
Thinking through story
Theoretical Challenges of Indigenous Archaeology
Memory Pieces and Footprints
Mapping an archaeology of the present
Archaeology, diaspora and decolonization
Dreaming of dragons
Negotiating Yanyuwa Rock Art
On Applied Archaeology, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Usable Past
Community Involvement in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management
The Archaeology of Memory
Aboriginalism and the Problems of Indigenous Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |