This essential handbook explores the relationship between the postcolonial critique and the field of archaeology, a discipline that developed historically in conjunction with European colonialism and imperialism. In aiding the movement to decolonize the profession, the contributors to this volume—themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries—suggest strategies to strip archaeological theory and practice of its colonial heritage and create a discipline sensitive to its inherent inequalities. Summary articles review the emergence of the discipline of archaeology in conjunction with colonialism, critique the colonial legacy evident in continuing archaeological practice around the world, identify current trends, and chart future directions in postcolonial archaeological research. Contributors provide a synthesis of research, thought, and practice on their topic. The articles embrace multiple voices and case study approaches, and have consciously aimed to recognize the utility of comparative work and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the past. This is a benchmark volume for the study of the contemporary politics, practice, and ethics of archaeology. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress
Introduction
PART 1: The Archaeological Critique of Colonization: Global Trajectories
Chapter 2: Colonialism and European Archaeology, Alfredo Gonzlez-Ruibal
Chapter 3: Near Eastern Archaeology, Colonialism and the Postcolonial Present, Benjamin W. Porter
Chapter 4: Telling Our Stories: Colonial Experiences and Archaeological Practices in North America, Sonya Atalay
Chapter 5: The Colonial Legacy in the Archaeology of South Asia, Dilip Chakrabarti
Chapter 6: The Colonial Experience of the Uncolonized and Colonized: The Case of East Asia as mainly seen from Japan, Koji Mizoguchi
Chapter 7: Resurrecting the Ruins of Japan's Mythical Homelands: Colonial Archaeological Surveys in the Korean Peninsula and Heritage Tourism, Hyung Il Pai
Chapter 8: Archaeology in the Colonial and Post-Colonial USSR, Pavel Dolukhanov
Chapter 9: Subjectivity and Science in Postcolonial Archaeology, Ania Loomba
Chapter 10: The Archaeological Survey of India and the Science of Postcolonial Archaeology, Ashish Chadha
PART II: Archaeological Narratives of Colonialism
Chapter 11: Writing New Archaeological Narratives: Indigenous North America, Stephen W. Silliman
Chapter 12: The Archaeology of Historical Indigenous Australia, Alistair Paterson
Chapter 13: Slavery, Liberation, and Emancipation: Constructing a Postcolonial Archaeology of the African Diaspora, Theresa A. Singleton
Chapter 14: Encounters with Postcolonialism in the Archaeology of Ireland, Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Chapter 15: Postcolonial Narratives of Africa, Peter Schmidt and Karega Munene
Chapter 16: Shades of the Colonial, O. Hugo Benavides
Chapter 17: The Efficacy of Emic and Etic in Archaeology and Heritage, Joost Fontein
PART III: Address/Redressing the Past: Restitution, Repatriation, and Ethics
Chapter 18: Repatriation: US Perspectives, Jon Daehnke and Amy Lonetree
Chapter 19: Repatriation: Australian Perspectives, Michael Green and Phil Gordon
Chapter 20: Cultural Property: Internationalism, Ethics, and Law, Alexander A. Bauer
Chapter 21: New Museological Ways of Seeing the World: Decolonizing Archaeology in Lebanese Museums. Lina G. Tahan
Chapter 22: International Perspectives on Native Title, Archaeology, and the Law, Peter Veth
Chapter 23: Archaeology enters the Twenty-First Century, Thomas C. Patterson
Chapter 24: The Global Repatriation Debate and the new "Universal Museums", Magnus Fiskes
PART IV: Strategies of Practice: Implementing the Postcolonial Critique
Chapter 25: Community Heritage and Partnership in Xcalakdzonot, Yucataacuten, Fernando Armstrong-Fumero and Julio Hoil Gutierrez
Chapter 26: Partnership Archaeology and Indigenous Ancestral Engagement in Torres Strait,
Northeastern Australia, Liam Brady and Joe Crouch
Chapter 27: Archaeological Practice at the Cultural Interface, Martin Nakata and Bruno David
Chapter 28: Ethnographic Interventions, Lynn Meskell
Chapter 29: Colonialism, Conflict and Connectivity: Public Archaeology's Message in a Bottle, Sandra Scham
Commentaries
Chapter 30: Public Interest Anthropology: A Model for Engaged Research Tied to Action, Peggy Reeves Sanday
Chapter 31: Cultural Resources Management, Public Archaeology and Advocacy, Carol McDavid and Fred McGhee
PART V: Colonial and Postcolonial Identities
Chapter 32: Gender and Sexuality, Louise Strouml
Chapter 33: Cultural Identity, Colonial and Postcolonial Archaeologies, Sarah Croucher
Chapter 34: Class Identity and Postcolonialism, Gavin Lucas
Chapter 35: Race and Class, Paul Mullins
Commentaries
Chapter 36: An Archaeologist Finds Her Voice: A Commentary, Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Chapter 37: Native American Identity and BioArch/DNA, John Norder
Epilogue, Uzma Z. Rizvi and Jane Lydon
Biography
Jane Lydon, Uzma Z Rizvi
"This volume attests to archaeology's involvement with colonialism as well as its potential to decolonize practice, interpretation, and theory. It is extraordinary and notable in bringing together perspectives from so many places around the world. In doing so, it provides inspiration and impetus for further examining the nature of the relationships between postcolonialism and archaeology. In fact, we believe it is largely by delving deeply into this undercurrent that archaeology will sustain itself as relevant and ethical social theory and practice over the next century. Just as archaeology has been central to the colonial project, so it may have an important role in re-visioning the relations of production of knowledge about the past."
--From the Foreword by George Nicholas and Julie Hollowell
