Bridging the Divide

The collected essays in this volume address contemporary issues regarding the relationship between Indigenous groups and archaeologists, including the challenges of dialogue, colonialism, the difficulties of working within legislative and institutional frameworks, and NAGPRA and similar legislation. The disciplines of archaeology and cultural heritage management are international in scope and many countries continue to experience the impact of colonialism. In response to these common experiences, both archaeology and indigenous political movements involve international networks through which information quickly moves around the globe. This volume reflects these dynamic dialectics between the past and the present and between the international and the local, demonstrating that archaeology is a historical science always linked to contemporary cultural concerns.

Caroline Phillips, Harry Allen

1: Maintaining the Dialogue; 2: "Wake Up! repatriation Is Not the Only Indigenous Issue in archaeology!"; 3: Agency and Archaeological Material Culture; 4: Part of the Conversation; 5: Taíno as a Romantic Term; 6: Defining Cultural Heritage at Gummingurru, Queensland, Australia; 7: Working together?; 8: The Crisis in 21st Century Archaeological Heritage Management; 9: The Indigenous Peoples' Views of Archaeology in Solomon Islands; 10: Archaeology and Indigeneity in aotearoa/New Zealand; 11: Indigenous archaeology; 12: Seeking the end of Indigenous archaeology