Cruso raised his head and cast me a look full of defiance. “I will leave behind my terrace and walls,” he said.
“The will be enough. They will be more than enough.” And he fell silent again. As for myself I wondered who would cross the ocean to see terraces and walls, of which we surely had an abundance at home; but I held my peace (Coetzee 1986).
Introduction and Definition
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
(William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun)
Since the 1960s, closely linked to the struggles of national liberation, anticolonialism, civil rights, and student uprisings, there has been a growing concern with the politics of domination in the West’s liberal project of academic and intellectual production (Foucault 1980). Specifically in anthropology, and archaeology, this was marked by the presence of (so-called) natives in the subject-production of the discipline, natives which until then had been completely excluded from this noble enterprise other than as objects (and not...
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Benavides, O.H. (2014). Postcolonial Archaeologies. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_3
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