Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge
288 pages, 6 x 9
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Release Date:15 Dec 2008
ISBN:9780816528004
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Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge

Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology

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The University of Arizona Press
A fundamental issue for twenty-first century archaeologists is the need to better direct their efforts toward supporting rather than harming indigenous peoples. Collaborative indigenous archaeology has already begun to stress the importance of cooperative, community-based research; this book now offers an up-to-date assessment of how Native American and non-native archaeologists have jointly undertaken research that is not only politically aware and historically minded but fundamentally better as well.
Eighteen contributors—many with tribal ties—cover the current state of collaborative indigenous archaeology in North America to show where the discipline is headed. Continent-wide cases, from the Northeast to the Southwest, demonstrate the situated nature of local practice alongside the global significance of further decolonizing archaeology. And by probing issues of indigenous participation with an eye toward method, theory, and pedagogy, many show how the archaeological field school can be retailored to address politics, ethics, and critical practice alongside traditional teaching and research methods.
These chapters reflect the strong link between politics and research, showing what can be achieved when indigenous values, perspectives, and knowledge are placed at the center of the research process. They not only draw on experiences at specific field schools but also examine advances in indigenous cultural resource management and in training Native American and non-native students.
Theoretically informed and practically grounded, Collaborating at the Trowel’s Edge is a virtual guide for rethinking field schools and is an essential volume for anyone involved in North American archaeology—professionals, students, tribal scholars, or avocationalists—as well as those working with indigenous peoples in other parts of the world. It both reflects the rapidly changing landscape of archaeology and charts new directions to ensure the ongoing vitality of the discipline.
Stephen W. Silliman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Foreword, by Larry J. Zimmerman
Acknowledgments
1 Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology: Troweling at the Edges, Eyeing the Center
Stephen W. Silliman
PART 1 Methods and Practices in Archaeological Field Schools
2 Field Schools without Trowels: Teaching Archaeological Ethics and Heritage Preservation in a Collaborative Context
Barbara J. Mills, Mark Altaha, John R. Welch, and T. J. Ferguson
3 The Tribe and the Trowel: An Indigenous Archaeology and the Mohegan Archaeological Field School
Jeffrey C. Bendremer and Elaine L. Thomas
4 Working on Pasts for Futures: Eastern Pequot Field School Archaeology in Connecticut
Stephen W. Silliman and Katherine H. Sebastian Dring
5 Summer Workshops in Indigenous Archaeology: Voluntary Collaboration between Colgate University and the Oneida Indian Nation of New York
Jordan E. Kerber
6 Field School Archaeology, Activism, and Politics in the Cayuga Homeland of Central New York
Jack Rossen
PART 2 Indigenous Archaeology and Education
7 Pedagogy of Decolonization: Advancing Archaeological Practice through Education
Sonya Atalay
8 Building Pathways between Zuni and Mashantucket Pequot Country
Russell G. Handsman and Kevin A. McBride
9 A Critical Change in Pedagogy: Indigenous Cultural Resource Management
Andrea A. Hunter
10 ’Íhoosh’aah, Learning by Doing: The Navajo Nation Archeology Department Student Training Program
Davina R. Two Bears
PART 3 Reflections on Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology
11 Collaborative Research Programs: Implications for the Practice of North American Archaeology
Kent G. Lightfoot
12 Melding Science and Community Values: Indigenous Archaeology Programs and the Negotiation of Cultural Differences
George P. Nicholas

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