07/06/2022
Anthropology 445
Advanced Archaeological Seminar
Offered Winter 2023
The beginnings of archeology were indisputably colonial in nature. It was a practice conducted for a European audience, by European practitioners, from European perspectives. The subjects of those enquiries, however, were often not European. Growing calls to decolonize the practice by engaging with Indigenous peoples and Indigenous ways of knowing by fostering Indigenous archaeologies are positive challenges to the inherent biases in traditional Eurocentric approaches. This course looks at the colonial biases inherent to traditional archaeological approaches, examines the impacts those approaches have had, and explores what is being done to counter the limiting conclusions drawn from such investigations. Offered 2022-2023
