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Digging deeper in the archaeological psyche

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ewan Campbell
Affiliation:
1School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, 1 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK (Email: ewan.campbell@glasgow.ac.uk)
Rob Leiper
Affiliation:
2University of Kent, The Registry, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ, UK (Email: rob.leiper@gmail.com)

Extract

In the last 25 years the individual has increasingly come to the fore in archaeology, for example in phenomenology, agency and somatic archaeology, and more recently we have been encouraged to be reflexive in our methodology, and to hear multiple accounts of the past by other ‘stakeholders’ such as local communities. Alongside this focus on the individual in the past there has been a concomitant growth of interest in the history of archaeologists themselves (Murray 1999b: 871), most recently, for example, in the work of the Archives of European Archaeology Project (AREA n.d.), or the oral history of archaeology (Smith 2010). In the non-academic world the search by individuals and communities for a sense of identity in the remnants of the past has become a major issue in the fields of heritage, nationalism and identity studies (Hamilakis & Anagnostopoulos 2009).

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2013

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