Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• The place and the role of archaeology —as praxis in fieldwork, but also as
discipline that retains archival power over the past and as part and parcel of the work of
statutory and intra-governmental agencies for heritage conservation— in the production
of time and temporalities;
• The practices of negotiation with the past of the Others and their translation into
academic knowledge.
• The legacies of colonialism/imperialism in the production of archaeological
knowledge and new avenues for the creation of emancipatory, counter-modern and
alter/native archives.
• Memory, materiality and multi-temporal encounters in and around archaeological
sites.
References:
Hamilakis, Y. (2013) Archaeology and the Senses. Human experience, memory, and affect.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Holbraad, M., Pedersen, M. A., Viveiros de Castro, E. (2014) "The Politics of Ontology:
Anthropological Positions." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website,
January 13, 2014. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/462-the-politics-of-ontology-
anthropological-positions
Mignolo, W. (2011) The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial
Options. Duke University Press, Durham.