berghahn New York · Oxford

Contents

List of Tables/Figures/Maps

Foreword
Margaret Purser

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. PANYC: The Why, The Then, and The Now
Joan H. Geismar

Chapter 2. “Cursed Be He that Moves My Bones”: The Archaeologist’s Role in Protecting Burial Sites in Urban Areas
Elizabeth D. Meade and Douglas Mooney

Chapter 3. Digging Truth: Archaeology and Public Imagination in Shockoe Bottom
Ana Edwards

Chapter 4. Seneca Village Interpretations: Bringing Collaborative Historical Archaeology and Heritage Advocacy to the Forefront and Online
Meredith B. Linn, Nan A. Rothschild, and Diana diZerega Wall

Chapter 5. Right to the City: Community-Based Urban Archaeology as Abolitionist Heritage
Kelly M. Britt

Chapter 6. “Think Like an Historical Archaeologist”: Moving Beyond the Primary Source Document in K-12 Education
Elizabeth Martin

Chapter 7. “DIVERS[]S” and the Political Legacies of an "Experience-Exhibition"
María Fernanda Ugalde and O. Hugo Benavides

Chapter 8. American Apotheosis: Confronting Exceptionalism in the (Re)Production of National Identity
Diane F. George

Conclusion: Commentary
Christopher N. Matthews

Index

Advocacy and Archaeology

Urban Intersections

Edited by Kelly M. Britt and Diane F. George

254 pages, 32 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-964-2 Hb Published (April 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80073-965-9 eBook

Details

Archaeologists have a history of being prime agents of change, particularly in advocating for protection and preservation of historical resources. As more social issues intersect with archaeology and historical sites, we see archaeologists and others continuing to advocate for not only historic resources, but for the larger social justice issues that threaten the communities in which these resources reside. Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Kelly M. Britt, PhD, RPA is Assistant Professor of Urban Archaeology at Brooklyn College whose research focuses on community-based historical archaeology of urban spaces. She completed her PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2009 and spent seven years at FEMA as their Regional II Archaeologist before joining Brooklyn College.

Diane F. George is an adjunct instructor of anthropology at Fordham university. She received her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center and her JD from the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in historical archaeology, focusing on nationalism, colonialism, and historical memory. She is the co-editor of Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance published in 2019.

Subject: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: North America

LC: CC77.U72 A36 2023

BISAC: SOC003000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Archaeology; SOC072000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Activism & Social Justice; HIS054000 HISTORY/Social History