Making Alternative Histories: Practice of Archaeology and History in Non-western Settings (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0933452926 ISBN 13: 9780933452923

Publisher: School of American Research Press,U.S., 1996

Synopsis

After working in Third World contexts for more than a century, many archaeologists from the West have yet to hear and understand the voices of their colleagues in non-Western cultural settings. In Making Alternative Histories, eleven scholars from Africa, India, Latin America, North America, and Europe debate and discuss how to respond to the erasures of local histories by colonialism, neocolonial influences, and the practice of archaeology and history as we know them today in North America and much of the Western world. Making Alternative Histories presents a profound challenge to traditional Western modes of scholarship and will be required reading for Western archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians.

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Synopsis

A challenge to traditional modes of Western scholarship, responding to the erasures of local histories wrought by the colonial legacy.

Edition details

• Publisher: School of American Research Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0933452926
• ISBN 13: 9780933452923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Schmidt Peter R., Patterson Thomas C.