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8th Annual Meeting of the European Association of
Archaeologists , September 24-29, 2002, in Thessalonika,
Greece.
Session Title:
Archaeological Perspectives on 'Globalization, Multi-
culturalism and the Prism of the Local' {PRIVATE }
Session Organizers:
Stephanie Koerner (University of Manchester, England)
Ulf Ikerud (Halle, Germany)
Session Abstract:
The last decades have seen a virtual explosion of cross-
disciplinary interest in the dynamics of 'globalization and
multiculturalism,' and the roles played in these processes
by material culture. Current discussion of relationships
between the contents and socio-historical contexts of
archaeological research alert us to the impacts this interest
has had on an extraordinary range of areas of
archaeological specialization, which are seeing the
emergence of new areas of research structured around
such themes as:
(a) 'cultural' and or 'ethnic identity,'
(b) human agency and transformations of relations of power
and knowledge, and
(c) the roles played by material culture in perceptions of
time and space, and the historicity of social agency and
human communities,
(d) the socio-political and ethical impacts of archaeology's
contributions to how the past is remembered.
Yet the relation of these developments within various fields
of archaeological inquiry to the issues posed in cross-
disciplinary discussion of processes of 'globalization and
multi-culturalism,' and especially to recent arguments for
investing these processes through the 'prism of the local'
remains all too frequently implicit.
In consequence, very few archaeologists have:
(a) assessed critically and constructively available
frameworks for investigating the dynamics of multi-
culturalism and globalization,
(b) challenged wholesale applications of highly generalized
received models,
(c) considered archaeology's special relevance to issues
posed by cross-disciplinary discussion of these models.
This, dispite (a) growing awareness of the socio-political
and ethical impacts of archaeology's contributions to how
the past is represented, and (b) archaeology's relevance to
cross-disciplinary interest in the diversity of historically
contingent forms - not just processes of globalization and
multi-culturalism - but also human agency and communities
have and can take.
This session seeks to explore - both critically and
contructively -these issues from a diversity of perspectives,
with regards to areas of specialization, philosophical
orientations and intellectual traditions, and socio-political
and ethical motivations. In so doing it hopes to provide a
context for carrying forward discussions of these issues
initiated in remarkable number of EAA 2001 sessions
representing very different fields of specialized inquiry, and
academic backgrounds.
Selected Bibliography
Dobres, M. A. and J. Robb (eds) (2000) Agency in
Archaeology. London: Routledge.
Inda, X.I and Rosaldo, R. (eds.) (2002) The Anthropology of
Globalization. A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
Miller, D. (ed.) (1995) Worlds Apart. Modernity through the
Prism of the Local. London: Routledge.
Shennan, S. (ed.) (1989) Archaeological Approaches to
Cultural Identity. London: Routledge.
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