Digging into My Past: Archaeology and Humanism in the Canadian Arctic
SUMMARY The legal battles ensuing from the discovery of the “Kennewick Man” brought mass media attention to a longstanding divide between the science of archaeology and contemporary indigenous peoples. In this essay, I reflect on this divide as experienced from the perspective of a student of archae...
| Published in: | Anthropology and Humanism |
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12172 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fanhu.12172 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/anhu.12172 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/anhu.12172 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/anhu.12172 |
| Summary: | SUMMARY The legal battles ensuing from the discovery of the “Kennewick Man” brought mass media attention to a longstanding divide between the science of archaeology and contemporary indigenous peoples. In this essay, I reflect on this divide as experienced from the perspective of a student of archaeology who later became a cultural anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of Inuit/settler relations in Nunavut. Building on the concept of community‐oriented approaches to archaeology, I examine how a humanistic approach to archaeological data can further unite indigenous peoples and professional archaeology. |
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