Date:
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - Sunday, April 18, 2010 This year, the annual SAA Meeting took place in St. Louis, Missouri.
Here is a sampling of the range of roles members of the IPinCH team played at the meeting.
IPinCH collaborator Dorothy Lippert organized and chaired the sponsored forum, NAGPRA in 20/20 Vision: Reviewing 20 Years of Repatriation and Looking Ahead to the Next 20, on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Participants included Steering Committee member Joe Watkins, co-investigator Sonya Atalay, and Dorothy Lippert. Co-investigator Larry Zimmerman will be a discussant.
A New Age for the SAA: International Indigenous Archaeology, a forum sponsored by the Native American Relations Committee, was chaired by Joe Watkins the same day. Participants included IPinCH Associate Hirofumi Kato, Project Director George Nicholas, co-investigator Eldon Yellowhorn, and Joe Watkins.
Eric Kansa, IPinCH collaborator, co-organized, co-chaired and participated in the electronic symposium, Practical Methods of Data Production, Dissemination, and Preservation.
On Friday April 16, 2010, George Nicholas, and co-investigator and case study developer Sonya Atalay were among the participants in the forum, Reflecting Critically on the Goals and Methods of Archaeological Practice co-chaired by Shoshaunna Parks and Patricia McAnany.
Session Abstract:
Reflecting Critically on the Goals and Methods of Archaeological Practice
Many archaeologists advocate community-based and indigenous archaeologies that embrace multivocality while others focus on archaeological responsibility to the past. Responding to increasing fissures over what constitutes good archaeological practice, this forum: (1) openly discusses tensions inherent to the archaeoscape; and (2) takes stock of collaborative methodologies. Why do some researchers embrace community-based models, while others distance themselves? Is the concept of "community" flawed or is increasing knowledge of human history the primary purpose of archaeology? Practitioners and non-practitioners of collaborative archaeologies have the opportunity to present their investigatory experiences in the hopes of encouraging dialogue about future methods and goals.
List of Participants
Shoshaunna Parks - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Patricia A. McAnany - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh - Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Janet Levy - University of North Carolina - Charlotte
George Nicholas - Simon Fraser University
Patrick Ryan Williams - Field Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sonya Atalay - Indiana University
Jaime Awe - Institute of Archaeology, Belize
Brian Billman - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Arlen Chase - University of Central Florida
Steering Committee member John Welch participated in the sponsored poster session, Archaeological Science 2010: Part II.
Co-investigator Larry Zimmerman and collaborator Randall McGuire were discussants of the symposium How Archaeology Makes Its Subject(s): Groups, Things and Epistemic (In)Justices on Saturday April 17, 2010.
The same day, co-investigator Claire Smith and collaborator Martin Wobst discussed the forum sponsored by Women in Archaeology, Gendered Selves: Experiences in and out of the Classroom.
