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Local Discourses in Archaeology

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Introduction

Archaeologists generally accept that they cannot leave their work to be used only by others (e.g., Jeppson 1997; Little and Shackel 2007). Archaeologists also understand that there is a community outside of archaeology that has a practical interest in the outcomes of archaeological endeavors (e.g., La Roche and Blakey 1997; McDavid 1997, 2011; Leone et al. 2011). Many archaeologists support a responsibility to the public to meet their needs by explaining what they say about the sites and people being investigated (Edwards-Ingram 1997; Jeppson 1997). The difficulty, as an archaeologist, is developing a means to reach out to these communities effectively. It may not be an easy task to identify such communities and to draw the line between who is a part of it and who is not. Archaeologists engaging with stakeholders, which is how we define local discourses, consider these issues as they develop research designs for their projects.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Benjamin A. Skolnik & Mark P. Leone

  2. School of Liberal Arts, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA, USA

    Kathryn H. Deeley

  3. Public Education, Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC, USA

    Beth Pruitt

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Deeley, K.H., Pruitt, B., Skolnik, B.A., Leone, M.P. (2018). Local Discourses in Archaeology. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1556-2

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