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Heritage as liberation
dc.contributor.authorFryer, Tiffany C.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-01T20:51:04Z
dc.date.available2024-07-01 16:51:03en
dc.date.available2023-06-01T20:51:04Z
dc.date.issued2023-06
dc.identifier.citationFryer, Tiffany C. (2023). "Heritage as liberation." American Anthropologist 125(2): 420-434.
dc.identifier.issn0002-7294
dc.identifier.issn1548-1433
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/176873
dc.description.abstractWhy aren’t archaeologists engaging in more substantive heritage work, and how might we do so? This article offers a conceptual framework for mobilizing our praxis toward the achievement of collective emancipation—what I am calling heritage as liberation. Heritage as liberation provides a mechanism for reckoning. It asks us to reevaluate our motivations and more clearly articulate what we stand for as archaeologists and heritage practitioners. I offer reflections on recent attempts by archaeologists to organize toward a just future, sketch what I think a practice of heritage as liberation offers that agenda, and then analyze the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) heritage work as an example of what is possible when we practice heritage as liberation. I close the article with thoughts on where archaeology stands in attempts to repair and redress past wrongs and on the range of contexts that might see an emancipatory heritage praxis enacted.Resumen¿Por qué los arqueólogos no se están involucrando en trabajo más sustancioso de patrimonio, y cómo pudiéramos hacerlo? Este artículo ofrece un marco conceptual para movilizar nuestra praxis hacia el logro de la emancipación colectiva –lo que llamo patrimonio como liberación–. El patrimonio como liberación provee un mecanismo de confrontación. Nos llama a reevaluar nuestras motivaciones y más claramente a articular lo que representamos como arqueólogos o profesionales del patrimonio. Ofrezco reflexiones sobre intentos recientes por arqueólogos para organizarse hacia un futuro justo; delineo lo que pienso que una práctica de patrimonio como liberación ofrece esa agenda, y luego analizo la Iniciativa de Justicia Igualitaria (EJI) de trabajo patrimonial como un ejemplo de lo que es posible cuando practicamos patrimonio como liberación. Cierro el artículo con pensamientos sobre dónde la arqueología está en relación con intentos de reparar y recorregir los errores pasados y el rango de contextos en que podría verse puesta en práctica una táctica de patrimonio emancipatorio. [teoría arqueológica, patrimonio, liberación, praxis, Iniciativa de Justicia Igualitaria]
dc.publisherUniversity Park: Penn State Press
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.subject.otherEqual Justice Initiative
dc.subject.otherarchaeological theory
dc.subject.otherheritage
dc.subject.otherliberation
dc.subject.otherpraxis
dc.titleHeritage as liberation
dc.typeArticle
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dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAnthropology
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/176873/1/aman13844.pdf
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/aman.13844
dc.identifier.sourceAmerican Anthropologist
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