Power In Archaeology Research Articles

The Power of Archaeology in the Construction and Formation of National Identity: Early Americanist Archaeology (Pre-1850)

The Power of Archaeology in the Construction and Formation of National Identity: Early Americanist Archaeology (Pre-1850)

Temporal Plurality and Temporal Transgressions: Time and Things in an Early Colonial Period Mortuary Assemblage from Northern Highland Ecuador

The power of archaeology as an arm of postcolonial studies lies with its focus on the material dimensions of colonialism and its ability to interrogate the role of things in negotiating the terrain of cultural dissonance. This paper contributes to the postcolonial critique by taking up the matter of temporality and historicity from an indigeno-centric perspective, offering an analysis of the notion of temporal plurality via a focus on the “time of materials.” The context of the study is a specific mortuary assemblage from a shaft tomb in the northern Andean highlands of Ecuador dating to the early Colonial period. This example is used to illustrate the way objects, as elements of heterogeneous assemblages, can create distinct temporalities that work to contravene or resist assimilation to the regime of historicity. The assemblage analyzed here conveys an ontology of temporal plurality that encompassed both radical continuity and radical change. As one example among many, it serves to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about the universality of historical time, the “natural” segregation of past, present, and future, and the significance of European artifacts in indigenous contexts.

Movement and Power in Archaeology

Anthropology NewsVolume 58, Issue 4 p. e290-e293 July/August Online Content Movement and Power in Archaeology Kathryn Sampeck, Kathryn SampeckSearch for more papers by this author Kathryn Sampeck, Kathryn SampeckSearch for more papers by this author First published: 21 February 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.524AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume58, Issue4Special Issue: The Sections EditionJuly/August 2017Pages e290-e293 RelatedInformation

Archaeology and the Late Modern State: Introduction to the Special Issue

While archaeologists have always shown great interest in the rise and fall of premodern states, they perennially show little interest in their own. This is particularly troubling because the state is the nexus of power in archaeology. In practice, virtually all archaeology is state archaeology, imbued with and emboldened by state power. It is in this light that contributors to this Special Issue of Archaeologies grapple with the archaeology–state nexus, addressing such timely issues as colonialism, capitalism, and cultural resource or heritage management (CRM/CHM). We outline here the archaeology–state nexus concept and introduce the Special Issue.

Networks of Power in Archaeology

Archaeologists and other social scientists have long argued that exercising power is a relational process. One way of modeling these relations is to see them as organized within social networks through which the resources needed to exert power in all its forms flow differentially. Two approaches to describing these interactions and understanding their political implications are particularly salient in the literature. One perspective draws from graph theory to describe how people's positions in established network structures affect their political aspirations and achievements. The other sees social nets as outcomes of strategies employed by actors seeking to define and achieve political goals within structural constraints. The advantages and limitations of these viewpoints are briefly reviewed, along with their implications for understanding past political processes.

Footloose and fossil-free no more: Evolutionary psychology needs archaeology

Evolutionary theories of human cognition should refer to specific times in the primate or hominid past. Though alternative accounts of tool manufacture from Wynn's are possible (e.g., frontal lobe function), Wynn demonstrates the power of archaeology to guide cognitive theories. Many cognitive abilities evolved not in the “Pleistocene hunter-gatherer” context, but earlier, in the context of other patterns of social organization and foraging.

Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology

Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology. Tracy L. Sweety. ed. New York: Routledge, 1999.210 pp.

Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology. By Tracy L. Sweely.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsManifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology. By Tracy L. Sweely.Mireille M. LeeMireille M. Lee Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Archaeology Volume 105, Number 2April 2001 The journal of the Archaeological Institute of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/507279 Copyright © 2001 by the Archaeological Institute of America. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology

Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology. Tracy L. Sweely (editor). New York, NY, and London, UK: Routledge, 1999. xiii. 210 pp., with 34 black and white figures. (Paper US$24.99)

Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology. Tracy L. Sweely

<i>Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology</i>. Tracy L. Sweely