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Assembling the Past: Studies in the Professionalization of Archaeology. Alice B. Kehoe , Mary Beth Emmerichs

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Assembling the Past: Studies in the Professionalization of Archaeology, edited by Alice B Kehoe and Mary Beth Emmerichs, 1999

The Assembling The Past volume, which focuses upon the issues of discrimination and marginalization in archaeology, is the delayed publication of two 1989 symposia dedicated to the history of archaeology - one in January of that year at the First Joint Archaeological Congress in Baltimore, chaired by Alice Kehoe and Jane Waldbaum, and the other in November at the 88th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, chaired by Nathan Reyman. Because of the time delay, in some cases the chapter authors already published later papers, building on their presentations, so that the reader may already be familiar with part of the arguments presented. Nevertheless, I evaluate this work as a must have for any student of the history of Americanist archaeology.

Assembling the past: studies in the professionalization of archaeology

Assembling the past: studies in the professionalization of archaeology

Assembling the Past: Studies in the Professionalization of Archaeology. Alice B. Kehoe and Mary Beth Emmerichs, editors. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1999, viii + 241 pp., bibliographies, index. $49.95 (cloth).

Assembling the Past: Studies in the Professionalization of Archaeology. Alice B. Kehoe and Mary Beth Emmerichs, editors. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1999, viii + 241 pp., bibliographies, index. $49.95 (cloth). - Volume 11 Issue 2

The Political Economy of Archaeology in the United States

▪ Abstract The professionalization of archaeology in the late nineteenth century was linked to the growth of antiquities markets and the development of museums as institutions of education and social reproduction. Professional archaeologists moved into the universities in large numbers after World War II and then increasingly into the private sector after the mid-1970s. In the United States, archaeologists currently confront a highly segmented labor market with significant wage and benefits differentials, and increasing numbers face marginal employment. At the same time, descendant communities and government regulations are transforming the ways by which archaeologists have traditionally conducted their investigations.