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Evaluating multiple narrative : beyond nationalist, colonialist imperialist archaelogies

Using archaeological case studies from around the world, this volume evaluates the implications of providing alternative interpretations of the past.
Print Book, English, 2008
Springer, New York, 2008
217 p. ; 23 cm
9780387764597, 0387764593
912762918
Operationalizing Multivocality.- Introduction: Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies.- An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research.- Multivocality and Indigenous Archaeologies.- Making a Home: Archaeologies of the Medieval English Village.- Critical Histories of Archaeological Practice: Latin American and North American Interpretations in a Honduran Context.- Paths of Power and Politics: Historical Narratives at the Bolivian Site of Tiwanaku.- Evaluating Multiple Narratives in Various Regional and Historical Settings.- Science or Narratives? Multiple Interpretations of the Sannai Maruyama Site, Japan.- Multivocality, Multifaceted Voices, and Korean Archaeology.- Virtual Viewpoints: Multivocality in the Marketed Past?.- Alternative States.- Irish Archaeology and the Recognition of Ethnic Difference in Viking Dublin.- Discussion.- “Alternative Archaeologies” in Historical Perspective.- Multivocality and Social Archaeology.- The Integrity of Narratives: Deliberative Practice, Pluralism, and Multivocality.