Archaeology’s Dirty Secrets. Often misunderstood, archaeology has played an important role in popular culture and in advancing scholarly understanding what makes us human. Archaeologists have championed causes just and unjust, and archaeology has been used to tell the stories of the oppressed as well as to erase the histories of whole peoples. From Nazi theories of race to the theft of Native skeletons to the African contribution to building New York city, this course takes on the challenges posed by the history of archaeology and invites you to ask questions such as, “Who owns the past? Who gets to tell the story? What does it mean to be human? How can archaeology or scholarship generally create a more just world?”
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- Teacher: Stuart Allison
- Teacher: William Hope