Changing archaeology's "brand" would be helpful

• Autores: Larry J. Zimmerman
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 92, Nº 362, 2018, págs. 523-524
• Idioma: inglés
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  • González-Ruibal et al. raise challenging issues that seem frightening in their implications. In both their specificity and their wider theoretical contexts, I had previously given these issues little thought, and some I had not even recognised. I share fully the authors� concern that archaeologists must seek ways to engage people influenced by �reactionary populism�, people who �are diverse, fragmented and complex�, and who may be �greedy, patriarchal, xenophobic or uninterested in the past� (González-Ruibal et al. above). The authors find fault with the multi-vocal, multi-cultural approaches of epistemic populist archaeologies that tend to exclude most of those who fit this description. I could object to some of the details of the authors� critiques of epistemic populism and heritage studies, but their core arguments are mostly correct and powerful. At the same time, at least within a North American context, I think that archaeologists have generally reacted to the various populist pressures of the past century and that we have already started to do what the authors suggest.