...politicians favor ceding control over cultural matters to Native people as a less expensive and dangerous way to compensate them for centuries of injustice than giving them extensive political and economic powers. If archaeologists are concerned at the thought of becoming government pawns, they should realize that--in Canada at least, and I suspect elsewhere--this process is most easily accomplished by acceding to the belief that Aboriginal peoples have unique needs to possess and control their archaeological past, thus artificially inflating the value of this resource when measured against the provision of economic and political powers to Indigenous communities. Matt Scrimes Im reading the most damn interesting paper on how archeological scholarship handles indigenous history and how over sensitivity and something called essentialism is creating the situation above
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:24:21 +0000
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