SPRING 2012
Paul Mullins

Every student will present one reading to the class (i.e., not the whole week's readings, just one selection).  Presenters should summarize the reading's main points, assess its strengths and weaknesses, and provide some initial ideas to guide the discussion.  All students will be prepared to participate in class discussions of the readings, so the presenter's duty is to begin that discussion.  Every presenter must provide me a thorough outline of their presentation on the day of the presentation or lose half of their reading presentation credit.

Readings are assigned on a voluntary basis:  if you do not volunteer to present one of the readings by January 23, I will assign you to one at random that evening.  The line ABOVE the reading indicates the person who is presenting that reading:  please do not get confused and prepare the wrong reading for class.

Readings in the Contemporary Archaeology in Theory volume appear in the syllabus as CAT.  Readings in Reconstructing Archaeology appear as RA.  Readings in Ethnographic Archaeologies appear as EA.  Remaining readings are available electronically through either a direct link from this page or on Oncourse under the resources tab for the class.

Jan. 23

    Jasmine McClure                                                                                                 

• Chapter 1 "The Present Past", RA

     Jamie Box                                                                                               

• The Location of Archaeology (Christopher Matthews, Chapter 6, EA)

Jan. 30

      Nicole Wittlief                                                                                                

• An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research (Michael L. Blakey, Chapter 27, CAT).

      Jessica Adair                                                                                               

• Mark P. Leone, Parker B. Potter, Jr., and Paul A. Shackel, "Towards a Critical Archaeology," American Anthropologist 28(3) [1987]:283-302

Feb. 6

       JohnDavid Kerner                                                                                               

• Chapter 4, Presenting the Past, RA

        Adam Oswalt                                                                                              

• Copyrighting the Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Archaeology (George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. Bannister, Chapter 32, CAT).

Feb. 13

The Dilemmas of Objectivity and Hyper-Relativism

       Samantha Ludwig                                                                                               

• A Dangerously Elusive Method: Disciplines, Histories, and the Limits of Reflexivity (Richard Handler, Chapter 3, EA).

      Donna Shepley                                                                                                

• Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual?: Feminist Critiques of Science (Alison Wylie, Chapter 9, CAT).

Feb. 20

      Ashlet Lewis                                                                                             

• A Class All its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict (LouAnn Wurst, Chapter 16, CAT).

      Amanda Hundertmark                                                                                                

• Mark P. Leone, "A Historical Archaeology of Capitalism," American Anthropologist, 97(2) [1995]:251-268.

Feb. 27

      Christina Dury                                                                                                

• Facts and Values in Archaeology, Chapter 3, RA

       Samantha Bailey                                                                                               

• Historical Categories and the Praxis of Identity: The Interpretation of Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology (Sian Jones, Chapter 14, CAT).

March 5

         Erika Pride                                                                                            

• No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance at the NMAI (Sonya Atalay, Chapter 29, CAT).

         Anne Waxingmoon                                                                                            

• Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire (Barbara Voss, Chapter 12, CAT).

March 19

      Amanda Joliffe                                                                                              

• Cultures of Contact, Cultures of Conflict?: Identity Construction, Colonialist Discourse, and the Ethics of Archaeological Practice in Northern Ireland (Audrey Horning, Chapter 28, CAT).  

      Matthew Pike                                                                                           

• Confronting Colonialism: The Mahican and Schaghticoke Peoples and Us (Russell Handsman and Trudie Lamb Richmond, Chapter 24, CAT).

March 26

       Tom Ryan                                                                                               

• Real People or Reconstructed People?: Ethnocritical Archaeology, Ethnography, and Community Building (Larry Zimmerman, Chapter 7, EA).

   

      Karin Williams   AND Alison Lynch                                                                                         

• Barbara L. Voss, "Feminisms, Queer Theories, and the Archaeological Study of Past Sexualities" World Archaeology 32(2):180-192, on Oncourse.

April 2

      Aaron Williamson AND Taylor Woodford                                                                                            

• The Foundations of Archaeology (Mark Leone, Chapter 4, EA). 

       Marsha Howlett                                                                                               

• The "Ethnographic Turn" in Archaeology: Research Positioning and Reflexivity in Ethnographic Archaeologies (Quetzil Castaneda, Chapter 1, EA).

April 9

       Joel Marshall                                                                                               

• Social Values, Social Constraints and Material Culture: The Design of Contemporary Beer cans (Chapter 8, RA).

April 16

         Caitlin Eggerton                                                                                             

• Sites of Violence: Terrorism, Tourism, and Heritage in the Archaeological Present (Lynn Meskell, Chapter 26, CAT).

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