ANT 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, Reproductive Health, Signify
Document Summary
Archaeology of border crossings: the work of archaeologists and the knowledge they produce both help create, and are conditioned by, a variety of kinds of borders, including political, academic, and cultural. Borders shape and determine the social conditions in which archaeology takes place and takes on meaning. The histories of these borders, their construction, and their crossings reveal structural tensions in the overlapping registers of academia, public history and popular discourse, in which archaeological knowledge circulates. These histories must be consciously interrogated in order to be negotiated. By becoming fluent in the cultural conversations ongoing in a place, archaeologists are best able to begin productive collaborations and make informed choices about how they participate in the border- making processes of their work. Authoritative knowledge: knowledge that dispensed by an authority figure (e. g. a doctor or other expert) that is difficult or impossible to contest.
