resources for a responsible archaeology
Standpoint Methodology and Epistemology
Harding, Sandra (2015). Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Liboiron, Max (2017). Film on Tools, Practices, and Ethics for Monitoring Marine Plastic Pollution Developed in a Feminist Lab
From Resham Redmond:
Franklin, Maria. "A Black feminist-inspired archaeology?." Journal of Social Archaeology 1, no. 1 (2001): 108-125.
Battle-Baptiste, Whitney. "The other from within: a commentary." In Past Meets Present, pp. 101-106. Springer, New York, NY, 2007.
Epperson, Terrence W. "Critical race theory and the archaeology of the African diaspora." Historical Archaeology 38, no. 1 (2004): 101-108.
Anzaldúa, Gloria (1999). Borderlands / La Frontera. Chapter 7: "Towards a new Consciousness", pp. 99-113.
Gates, Louis Henry and Jennifer Burton (eds.) (2011), Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies. Norton.
Asante, Molefi Kete (2009). Where is the white professor located? http://www.asante.net/articles/20/where-is-the-white-professor-located/
From Nikki Grigg:
Agbe-Davies, Anna (2010). "Concepts of Community in the Pursuit of an Inclusive Archaeology." International Journal of Heritage Studies16(6):373–389.
Allen, Jafari Sinclaire and Ryan Cecil Jobson (2016). “The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology Since the Eighties.” Current Anthropology 57(2): 129-148.
Atalay, Sonya (2006). "Indigenous Archaeology as Decolonizing Practice." American Indian Quarterly 30(3/4):280-310.
Decanonizing Anthropology syllabus created by graduate students at Oregon State University (2019): https://footnotesblog.com/2019/02/15/decanonizing-anthropology/
Heath-Stout, Laura and Elizabeth Hannigan (2020). "Affording Archaeology: How Field School Costs Promote Exclusivity." Advances in Archaeological Practice. 8(2):123-133.
Kawa, N. C. et al. (2018). "The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and its Inequalities." American Anthropologist 121 (1):14-29.
Archaeology and the Politics of the Past (2020) syllabus with extensive reading list: PDF
UCAN Anti-Racism Reading List (coordinated by Jamie Countryman): LINK
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