the poll is interesting and supports calls from dan, rodney and sarah among
others:
pointless or point-full is not the point.
the same could be said of much archaeology regardless of time period or
locale.
the more important questions might be:
- what is the *work* that contemporary archaeologies do?
- what would *good* contemporary archaeologies look like and how would we
recognise their worthiness and who says?
- what would we (collectively?) aspire for contemporary archaeologies?
the debates about propriety are akin to those faced by
heritage/museum/museum archaeologists back in the 1990s. all of that work
was gendered as female and largely worthless - at least it didn't make you
a *real* archaeologist.
worrying about being liked or accepted can get in the way of getting on
with things and we know that disciplining subject areas is a matter of
power, etc, etc.
i (and others) may be guilty of *polluting* the discipline through uses of
improper languages and images. but we got over the post-structural poetry
phase of the early 1990s and even that contributed positively to
archaeology now.
angela
--On Wednesday, October 6, 2010 12:33 +0100 pmgb
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If you look at the results of the bajr poll, it seems that the most
> recent vote was march 2010:
>
> http://www.bajr.org/bajrforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=778&results=1
>
> P
>
> On 06/10/2010 10:37, MAY, Sarah wrote:
>> Just looked through Paul's blog onteh Van and the comments were from
>> within the Ironbridge team and were fairly mild. But as far as I can
>> see they also come from before the beginning of the project. I would be
>> interested to see what the same people thought of the results of the
>> project. The comments responding to the blog posts were all positive
>> (though that's pretty common on archaeology blogs (probably a sign that
>> they aren't functioning quite the way that other blogs do)
>>
>>
>> All the best
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Discussion List for Contemporary and Historical Archaeology
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Horning, Audrey
>> J. (Dr.) Sent: 06 October 2010 10:28
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: re. is contemporary archaeology crap?
>>
>> If the intention of the original post was to find comments in print
>> criticising or questioning contemporary archaeology, one could look at
>> some of the comments posted on Paul Belford's blog about the Van
>> project, http://contemp-ironbridge.blogspot.com/
>>
>> Audrey
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