[Archport] Call for Papers - TAG 2008 - solicita-se divulgação

["Mariana Teodosia Lemos C.B. Diniz" <m.diniz@fl.ul.pt>]

TAG 2008 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, UK

 web page: http://www.tagconference.org/2008

Call for papers

Session:

FAIR ARCHAEOLOGY ? Building Bridges after the Gap

www.tagconference.org/content/fair-archaeology-?-building-bridges-after-gap


MARIANA DINIZ (Centro de Arqueologia -Universidade de Lisboa)

Archaeology was for a long time an occidental, white, male, empowered science that actively contributes to build gaps between peoples, nations, and ethnic/religious/gender groups.

Today many archaeologists are using all political potential of their knowledge to build a fair world, breaking down traditional barriers between scientists and all kinds of publics, between former colonial nations and indigenous people, between sates and nations, between war winners and war losers, between men and women and so on.

Being so this session welcomes any archaeologist who tries to build bridges instead of gaps, doing what we can call Fair Archaeology. Fair Archaeology is not intended as a new branch of a major discipline but as a new way of being in the discipline.

Sometimes Fair Archaeology will be regarded as controversial archaeology while giving voice to those who where for so long shut up. But since archaeology lost its innocence this is a small price to pay for thinking contemporary world throughout the past.