ethnography
A Multidisciplinary Study of Commercial Archaeological Practice - Experiencing Ontological Paralysis: from Research Instrumentality to Academic Invisibility
Nicolas Zorzin (University of Southampton, UK)
Today, commercial archaeology faces persistent problems in coping with its scientific and social responsibilities. These problems are related to issues such as the political disengagement of the state, the permanent Neoliberal economic pressure which result from the enclosure of archaeology within a capitalistic structure, and the internal social decay of the archaeological community.
Creating Both Objects and Experts through Practice: Understanding the Epistemic Culture of Postcolonial Archaeology in South America
Mary Leighton (University of Chicago, USA)
Karin Knorr-Certina (1999) demonstrates how expert knowledge emerges as the product of a specific epistemic culture created through practice in the 'lifeworld' of the discipline. The lifeworld of the 'laboratory' (a space and a set of practices associated with a scientific discipline) is a combination of the body of the scientist, tools, and the physical objects of study, with each mutually constituting the others.
Creating and Created by Images: Visualization and the Establishment of the Earliest Archaeology Departments in Britain
Sara Perry (University of Southampton, UK)
Some Ethnographic Observations on the Role of Archaeology in South-eastern Turkey
Laurent Dissard (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Salvage excavations have been undertaken by archaeologists since the 1960s in south-eastern Turkey before the construction of large dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. My research looks at the history of these excavations and the contributions they have made to Anatolian archaeology.
