Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies

222 Pages·2008·17.05 MB·English

by  Junko Habu

Evaluating Multiple Narratives
Junko Habu Clare Fawcett John M. Matsunaga
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Editors
Evaluating Multiple
Narratives
Beyond Nationalist, Colonialist,
Imperialist Archaeologies
Junko Habu Clare Fawcett
Department of Anthropology Department of Sociology
University of California at Berkeley and Anthropology
Berkeley, CA St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Canada
John M. Matsunaga
Department of Anthropology
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007930709
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-71824-8 e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-71825-5
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To Bruce Trigger, for his inspiration, dedication, and patience as both teacher and
scholar
Acknowledgments
This volume was the result of the hard work and dedication of many people. We
would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge them. All of the papers in this
volume were initially presented in 2004 as part of a symposium entitled “Beyond
Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies: Evaluating Multiple Narratives”
at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in
Montreal. We thank those who participated in this symposium and agreed to con-
tribute their papers to this volume. We would also like to thank three scholars,
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Dante Angelo, and Nenad Tasic´, who presented papers at the
symposium but were unable to contribute to this volume.
Teresa Krauss and Katie Chabalko of Springer provided sage editorial advice
and we thank them for their patience and assistance. We would also like to thank
two anonymous reviewers, who gave us invaluable comments and suggestions on
the contents of this book.
Numerous other individuals, who provided assistance and support of various
kinds, made this volume possible: Eric Atkinson, Mike Bisson, Patricia Fawcett,
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, Koji and Makiko Habu, Mark Hall, Katherine Howlett
Hayes, Akiko and Mariko Idei, Tom and Sue Matsunaga, and Tanya Smith. We
thank all of them for providing the help and support we needed to complete this
work. In particular, Dr. Mark Hall helped us copyedit Chapter 11. John Matsunaga
would like to thank the Department of Anthropology at the University of California,
Berkeley for providing funding in the form of a Lowie Olsen grant for travel to the
SAA meetings in Montreal. Clare Fawcett thanks her colleagues at St. Francis
Xavier University for providing a stimulating academic environment for archaeo-
logical and anthropological research and teaching. Junko Habu thanks her
colleagues at UC Berkeley for stimulating conversations about multivocality and
the sociopolitics of archaeology.
While we were editing this volume, we received the sad news that Professor
Bruce Trigger had passed away on December 1, 2006. We would like to express our
sincere condolences to his family. Bruce’s daughter, Dr. Rosalyn Trigger, helped us
finalize his manuscript. We thank her for her assistance.
As former Ph.D. students at McGill University in Montreal, both Clare Fawcett
and Junko Habu benefited greatly from Bruce Trigger’s guidance. His work
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inspired us to initiate the symposium and this book project. Over the years, as
graduate students and then as colleagues, we learned a great deal about being schol-
ars, teachers, and archaeologists from his dedication to archaeology, his commit-
ment to social justice, his gift for open and innovative thought, and his enthusiasm,
fairness, and humanity. For these reasons, we dedicate this book to his memory.
Junko Habu
Clare Fawcett
John M. Matsunaga
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond
Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Clare Fawcett, Junko Habu, and John M. Matsunaga
Part I. Operationalizing Multivocality
Introduction to Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2. An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly
Engaged Biocultural Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Michael L. Blakey
Chapter 3. Multivocality and Indigenous Archaeologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Sonya Atalay
Chapter 4. Making a Home: Archaeologies
of the Medieval English Village. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Matthew H. Johnson
Chapter 5. Critical Histories of Archaeological Practice:
Latin American and North American Interpretations
in a Honduran Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Rosemary A. Joyce
Chapter 6. Paths of Power and Politics:
Historical Narratives at the Bolivian
Site of Tiwanaku. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
David Kojan
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Part II. Evaluating Multiple Narratives in Various Regional
and Historical Settings
Introduction to Part II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Chapter 7. Science or Narratives? Multiple Interpretations
of the Sannai Maruyama Site, Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Junko Habu and Clare Fawcett
Chapter 8. Multivocality, Multifaceted Voices,
and Korean Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Minkoo Kim
Chapter 9. Virtual Viewpoints: Multivocality in the Marketed Past?. . . . . . . 138
Neil Asher Silberman
Chapter 10. Alternative States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Robert Chapman
Chapter 11. Irish Archaeology and the Recognition
of Ethnic Difference in Viking Dublin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Patrick F. Wallace
Part III. Discussion
Chapter 12. “Alternative Archaeologies” in Historical Perspective. . . . . . . . . 187
Bruce G. Trigger
Chapter 13. Multivocality and Social Archaeology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Ian Hodder
Chapter 14. The Integrity of Narratives: Deliberative
Practice, Pluralism, and Multivocality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Alison Wylie
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213
Contributors
Sonya Atalay, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN 47405-7100
Michael L. Blakey, Institute for Historical Biology, Department of Anthropology,
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187
Robert Chapman, University of Reading, Department of Archaeology, Reading,
RG6 6AH, UK
Clare Fawcett, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, St. Francis Xavier
University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5 Canada
Junko Habu, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,
CA 94720-3710
Ian Hodder, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA 94305-2145
Matthew H. Johnson, Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of South-
ampton, Southampton SO17 1BF UK
Rosemary A. Joyce, Department of Anthropology, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720-3710
Minkoo Kim, Department of Anthropology, Chonnam National University,
Gwangju 500-757 Korea
David Kojan, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University,
San Francisco, CA 94132-4155
John M. Matsunaga, Department of Anthropology, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720-3710
Neil Asher Silberman, Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage
Presentation, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Bruce G. Trigger, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal,
Quebec, H3A 2T7 Canada
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