Pub Date : 2019-07-23DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1643125
Hannah Connelly, Sam Maddra, Judy Wilkinson
In November 2000 the Scottish Allotments and Gardens Society (SAGS) deposited a collection of their records with the University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections (ASC). Rather than simply leaving the documents, SAGS worked further with the archives, recognizing the importance of using the past further to present campaigns and protect allotments in the future. This led to an Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Award, further post-doctoral research funded by the Wellcome Trust and a Wellcome Trust Research Resources grant to catalogue the collection. The following three articles are reflections on working with this collection; from Judy Wilkinson, a member of SAGS, Sam Maddra, an archivist and Hannah Connelly, a researcher. Allotments are gardens detached from houses and leased to individuals to grow vegetables, fruit and flowers (Figures 1 and 2). Often a local authority owns the land that they are on but private allotments also exist, set up by individuals or various organizations. Allotments are also known as plots and the people who garden them as plotholders. The collection deposited by SAGS is named the Papers of Victor Webb, in recognition of the man who preserved the records. Victor Douglas Eustace Webb was born in 1915 and worked as a Civil Servant in Edinburgh. He first had an allotment in the 1940s and became very active in the Scottish allotment movement in the 1950s, when the Edinburgh Corporation closed his site to build a housing development. Webb led a campaign to save his site which, although unsuccessful, led him to become a campaigner and advisor to other plotholders facing site closures. He became heavily involved in SAGS and the Scottish Allotments Scheme for the Unemployed (SASU). This scheme was set up by the Scottish National Union of Allotment Holders (the forerunner of SAGS) and the Society of Friends (also known as the Quakers), of which Webb was also a member, during the Great Depression to provide unemployed people with plots, seeds and tools. The Friends are known for keeping excellent records and saving letters and diaries – a result of opting out of many formal institutions – and the SASU committee was no exception to this (Walvin 1997, 45–6). Webb carefully preserved the scheme’s documents, including those saved before his time by SASU’s first chairman Harold Sharp, as well as saving accounts, annual reports, letters and minutes from SAGS and the Federation of Edinburgh and District Allotment and Gardens Associations, covering from the 1930s until the 1990s. Webb gave his papers to SAGS shortly before he died and soon after SAGS deposited them with ASC. Since then, SAGS have added to the collection by depositing their more recent minute books and publications. Our reflections show how we have engaged with the Papers of Victor Webb. Judy reflects on how SAGS came to have the collection and the process of using it to further the Scottish allotment movement. Sam reflects on her involve
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Pub Date : 2019-07-23DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1643138
Hannah Connelly
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Pub Date : 2019-07-19DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1643137
Sam Maddra
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1633780
Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
ABSTRACT In the African postcolony, archaeological research and fieldwork engage with a variety of communities of connection. Therefore, a decolonizing archaeological heritage inquiry seeks a deeper engagement with an archaeological site’s living direct descendant constituencies. Privileging Danish-Ga direct descendant communities in a collaborative archaeological heritage project at Christiansborg Castle in Osu, Accra, Ghana, this essay introduces the experimental, work-in-progress approach I term ‘autoarchaeology’. This is an analytical approach whereby the roles and subject positions of researcher, practitioner, and descendant are held by the same person, and foreground the Self. Autoarchaeology excavates multiple layers, namely: the politics of knowledge production, historiographical traditions, historical inquiry, colonial realities, and postcolonial legacies. Autoarchaeology at the castle attempts to challenge current dominant Western archaeological heritage orthodoxy concerning the study, use, and management of the past, and in so doing, offer possibilities for a decolonizing practice.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1633785
Suzie Thomas, C. Mcdavid, R. Bonnie, Marta Lorenzon
Self-reflection is always a key aspect of community archaeology research and practice; as well as thinking about our many possible ‘publics’, it is important to situate ourselves. This is true whether we are archaeologists, researchers from other disciplines, cultural heritage managers or community participants such as students or volunteers. In this latest issue of JCAH, our contributors are particularly reflexive of their roles, and the lessons they have learned from their work. In the first article of this issue, Claudia Näser (University College London, UK) and Gemma Tully (University of Cambridge, UK) document their efforts to engage locals in collaborative archaeology approaches as part of the Mograt Island Collaborative Project in Sudan. Situating their work in the post-colonial context and acknowledging their own statuses as foreign academics, they provide a thought-provoking and frank discussion of both the successes and challenges faced in their work so far. Catherine Mills, Ian Simpson (both University of Stirling, UK) and Jennifer Geller (Central High School, Providence, USA) provide an equally upfront account of their work in another context: that of setting up a heritage outreach programme for a number of schools in the Devon Valley in central Scotland. Here they divulge the lessons that they learned along the way. As well as the practical aspects to planning and implementation that they share, they offer instructive insight to us all about the challenges of moving out of one’s comfort zone – in this case as academics taking a first step into using environmental history and industrial heritage to engage with an audience that was completely new to them. In Zimbabwe, Njabulo Chipangura (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) embarked on research that was partially archaeological and partially ethnographic. In the Mutanda Site in eastern Zimbabwe he investigated artisanal and small-scale goldmining in the past and present. With decolonizing the discipline in mind, Chipangura worked closely with local Indigenous gold miners, identifying their process as Indigenous artisanal mining, and with this paper sheds new light on the potential of multivocal approaches for contributing richly to archaeological knowledge. Also in the continent of Africa, Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann (Hampshire College, Amherst, USA) takes an even more personal approach to her research around Christiansborg Castle in Ghana, shedding light on the legacy for many local people of the Danish colonial era. These local people include Engmann herself, and her research led to her own adoption of the term ‘autoarchaeology’ as a way of articulating her process and position in relation to the project. Her paper documents this development and explains her usage of this term. A final shorter paper from Christopher Matthews (Montclair State University, USA) represents his reflections on community archaeology in relation to social justice issues, again drawing upon personal exp
自我反思始终是社区考古研究与实践的一个重要方面；除了思考我们许多可能的“公众”，重要的是定位我们自己。无论我们是考古学家、其他学科的研究人员、文化遗产管理者还是学生或志愿者等社区参与者，都是如此。在最新一期的JCAH中，我们的贡献者特别反思他们的角色，以及他们从工作中吸取的教训。在本期的第一篇文章中，Claudia Näser（英国伦敦大学学院）和Gemma Tully（英国剑桥大学）记录了他们努力让当地人参与合作考古方法，这是苏丹莫格拉特岛合作项目的一部分。他们将自己的工作置于后殖民时代的背景下，并承认自己作为外国学者的地位，对迄今为止在工作中取得的成功和面临的挑战进行了发人深省和坦率的讨论。凯瑟琳·米尔斯（Catherine Mills）、伊恩·辛普森（Ian Simpson）（均为英国斯特灵大学）和珍妮弗·盖勒（Jennifer Geller）（美国普罗维登斯中央高中）在另一个背景下对他们的工作进行了同样坦率的描述：为苏格兰中部德文河谷的多所学校建立遗产外展计划。在这里，他们透露了他们一路走来所学到的教训。除了他们分享的规划和实施的实际方面外，他们还为我们所有人提供了关于走出舒适区的挑战的有启发性的见解——在这种情况下，学者们迈出了利用环境历史和工业遗产与全新受众接触的第一步。在津巴布韦，Njabulo Chipangura（南非威特沃特斯兰德大学）开始了部分考古和部分民族志的研究。在津巴布韦东部的穆坦达遗址，他调查了过去和现在的手工和小规模金矿开采。考虑到该学科的非殖民化，Chipangura与当地土著金矿工人密切合作，将他们的过程确定为土著手工采矿，并通过这篇论文揭示了多元方法为丰富考古知识做出贡献的潜力。同样在非洲大陆，Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann（美国阿默斯特汉普郡学院）对加纳克里斯蒂安斯堡城堡的研究采取了更为个人化的方法，为许多丹麦殖民时代的当地人揭示了遗产。这些当地人包括Engmann本人，她的研究导致她自己采用了“自动考古”一词，以此来表达她与该项目的过程和立场。她的论文记录了这一发展，并解释了她对这个术语的用法。Christopher Matthews（美国蒙特克莱尔州立大学）的最后一篇较短的论文再次借鉴了个人经历，代表了他对社区考古与社会正义问题的思考。受吉勒·德勒兹先验经验主义思想的理论框架的启发，马修斯以纽约塞托基特的美洲原住民-非裔美国人混合遗产社区为例，强调了他所讨论的遗产、身份和理解的复杂性。本期还有两篇评论文章。Della Scott Ireton对Katy Bell主编的《弥合海洋考古的差距：与专业和公共社区合作》进行了富有洞察力的评论。Scott Ireton指出，尽管编辑本中的大多数案例研究来自英国，但这本书中关于合作的信息在世界任何地方都是相关的。Elizabeth Reetz对2019年4月在美国阿尔伯克基举行的美国考古学会年会上举行的“考古教育：建立研究基地”进行了热烈的活动回顾。尽管Reetz自己指出，这些会议通常是“说教”
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Pub Date : 2019-06-13DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1629742
C. Näser, G. Tully
ABSTRACT In this paper we introduce the Mograt Island Collaborative Project. Launched in 2014, this project aims to share archaeological narratives with members of a local community in Sudan, and with other stakeholders engaged with the area’s past, building on a collaborative process which investigates how archaeological outputs can be explored together in a meaningful way. We discuss the wider context in which the project takes place, its individual steps, the factual outcome of its first phase, and its evaluation in spring 2018. We share this case study to promote collaborative practice in postcolonial, present-day majority Muslim contexts, such as the Nile valley countries, where the approach is thus far underrepresented. Reflecting on the project’s trajectory and its results, we also present critical thoughts on its potentials and challenges which can be helpful for readers working in similar contexts.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-31DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1625190
Elizabeth Reetz
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage on 31 May 2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20518196.2019.1625190. The pre-print contains minor typos that have been corrected in the Version of Record.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1611184
Njabulo Chipangura
ABSTRACT In this paper I seek to redefine how we might go about doing archaeology in a way that effectively decolonizes it by collaborating with local communities in research projects. My emphasis is on mining archaeology in precolonial and contemporary settings with a view to contributing to documenting and understanding indigenous African gold mining practices. I achieve this through an empirical illustration of a collaborative archaeological excavation undertaken at Mutanda Site in Eastern Zimbabwe and how we interpreted the recovered material culture jointly, using dialogical ethnographic engagements with community members. The paper also illustrates that gold mining in this area heavily relies upon indigenous knowledge of the past and its application in the present. Interpretation of material culture recovered during the excavation occurred using ethnographic analogies and ritual beliefs that are associated with mining in the area. Thus, a social process of knowledge production developed within this collaborative research.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-23DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1608642
D. Scott-Ireton
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Pub Date : 2019-04-09DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2019.1602967
C. Mills, I. Simpson, J. Geller
ABSTRACT ‘Industrial Devon’ is a schools-based heritage engagement initiative that staff at the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy at Stirling University, Scotland, undertook in 2013/14. The project’s implementation involved collaboration with a variety of internal and external education and municipal partners, together with student volunteers. The project explored the environmental history of historic industries located along the River Devon in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, and the associated settlements along its route through the ‘eyes’ and activities of the local primary school pupils. The year-long project offered a hands-on, experiential approach to knowledge exchange delivery in schools; supplementing the state curriculum and research design for promoting local heritage across community groups of all ages and locations. The reflective narrative on how the initiative evolved, examines the pitfalls and opportunities encountered during planning and implementation and is designed both to inspire and provide a practical tool kit to all considering embarking on similar activities.
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