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Archaeology, graffiti and prisons

Year: 2019

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Archaeology is arguably the only discipline that studies all of human history in all of its facets. But it has also been—and remains—a deeply colonial study. The grand claim that archaeology studies all of human history is a typical colonial—even imperial—arrogance. And yet archaeology is a powerful, if partial, mode of surveillance and is able literally and metaphorically to go beyond surface appearances. What then can archaeology—and more specifically archaeologists—do to de-colonise and then to cosmopolitanise the discipline?

Source: UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia)

Author: Sven Ouzman

Language: English

Topic: Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3092715178

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