- [UNTITLED]
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Questioning Archaeology's Place in the World
- Towards An International Comparative History Of Archaeological Heritage Management
- America's Cherished Reserves: The Enduring Significance Of The 1916 National Park Organic Act
- Archaeologists and Metal-Detector Users in England and Wales: Past, Present, and Future
- Making Sense of the History of Archaeological Representation
- Public Archaeology in Latin America
- Archaeology and Politics in the Third World, with Special Reference to India
- Writing Histories of Archaeology
- Constrained by Commonsense: The Authorized Heritage Discourse in Contemporary Debates
- ‘A Frame to Hang Clouds on’: Cognitive Ownership, Landscape, and Heritage Management
- Living with Landscapes of Heritage
- Participatory Action Research and Archaeology
- Uncovering the Antiquities Market
- The Value of a Looted Object: Stakeholder Perceptions in the Antiquities Trade
- From Heritage to Stewardship: defining the sustainable care of archaeological places
- People and Landscape
- Crm Archaeology: The View from California
- Agriculture, Environmental Conservation, and Archaeological Curation in Historic Landscapes
- Archive Archaeology
- Archaeology as a Profession
- Public Benefits of Public Archaeology
- Enhancing Public Archaeology Through Community Service Learning
- Publicizing Archaeology in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century: A Personal View
- Archaeological Communities and Languages
- ‘Changing of the Guards’: The Ethics of Public Interpretation at Cultural Heritage Sites
- Emptying the Magician's Hat: Participatory Gis-Based Research in Fiji
- Class, Labour, and the Public
- Public Education in Archaeology in North America: The Long View
- Teaching through Rather than about: Education in the Context of Public Archaeology
- A Vision for Archaeological Literacy
- Public Archaeology and the us Culture Wars
- Descendant Community Partnering, the Politics of time, and the Logistics of Reality: Tales From North American, African Diaspora, Archaeology
- The Anthropology of Archaeology: The Benefits of Public Intervention at African-American Archaeological Sites
- Public Archaeology and Indigenous Archaeology: intersections and divergences from a native american perspective
- Inclusive, Accessible, Archaeology
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Participatory Action Research (PAR) refers to a research methodology that aims to transform communities for the better, and in which positive social change is an explicit goal. This article explains the concept of PAR and situates its use within the archaeology practice, which is located primarily within the private sector, sometimes referred to as ‘Cultural Resource Management’ (CRM). It also illustrates a short case study to highlight how PAR operated (with mixed success) in one particular CRM project. Finally, the article states that efforts to integrate PAR into CRM practice can at last introduce some degree of reflexivity into private sector archaeology discourse, similar to long-standing ruminations about the role of the researcher and the politics of fieldwork that have been occurring in cultural anthropology and other disciplines for some time.
Keywords: participatory action research, archaeology, cultural resource management, private sector archaeology
Fred L. McGhee is Fred L. McGhee & Associates (FLMA), Austin, Texas.
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- [UNTITLED]
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Questioning Archaeology's Place in the World
- Towards An International Comparative History Of Archaeological Heritage Management
- America's Cherished Reserves: The Enduring Significance Of The 1916 National Park Organic Act
- Archaeologists and Metal-Detector Users in England and Wales: Past, Present, and Future
- Making Sense of the History of Archaeological Representation
- Public Archaeology in Latin America
- Archaeology and Politics in the Third World, with Special Reference to India
- Writing Histories of Archaeology
- Constrained by Commonsense: The Authorized Heritage Discourse in Contemporary Debates
- ‘A Frame to Hang Clouds on’: Cognitive Ownership, Landscape, and Heritage Management
- Living with Landscapes of Heritage
- Participatory Action Research and Archaeology
- Uncovering the Antiquities Market
- The Value of a Looted Object: Stakeholder Perceptions in the Antiquities Trade
- From Heritage to Stewardship: defining the sustainable care of archaeological places
- People and Landscape
- Crm Archaeology: The View from California
- Agriculture, Environmental Conservation, and Archaeological Curation in Historic Landscapes
- Archive Archaeology
- Archaeology as a Profession
- Public Benefits of Public Archaeology
- Enhancing Public Archaeology Through Community Service Learning
- Publicizing Archaeology in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century: A Personal View
- Archaeological Communities and Languages
- ‘Changing of the Guards’: The Ethics of Public Interpretation at Cultural Heritage Sites
- Emptying the Magician's Hat: Participatory Gis-Based Research in Fiji
- Class, Labour, and the Public
- Public Education in Archaeology in North America: The Long View
- Teaching through Rather than about: Education in the Context of Public Archaeology
- A Vision for Archaeological Literacy
- Public Archaeology and the us Culture Wars
- Descendant Community Partnering, the Politics of time, and the Logistics of Reality: Tales From North American, African Diaspora, Archaeology
- The Anthropology of Archaeology: The Benefits of Public Intervention at African-American Archaeological Sites
- Public Archaeology and Indigenous Archaeology: intersections and divergences from a native american perspective
- Inclusive, Accessible, Archaeology
- Index