Peter R. Schmidt - Participatory Archaeology and Heritage Studies

Participatory Archaeology and Heritage Studies: Perspectives from Africa provides new ways to look at and think about the practice of community archaeology and heritage studies across the globe. Long hidden from view, African experiences and experiments with participatory archaeology and heritage studies have poignant lessons to convey about local initiatives, local needs, and local perspectives among communities as diverse as an Islamic community on the edge of an ancient city in Sudan to multiethnic rural villages near rock art sites in South Africa. Straddling both heritage studies and archaeological practice, this volume incorporates a range of settings, from practical experiments with sustainable pottery kilns in Kenya, to an elite palace and its hidden traditional heritage in Northwestern Tanzania, to ancestral knowledge about heritage landscapes in rural Ethiopia. The genesis of participatory practices in Africa are traced back to the 1950s, with examples of how this legacy has played out over six decadessetting the scene for a deeply rooted practice now gaining widespread acceptance.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage.

Peter R. Schmidt has studied and conducted archaeological, ethnographic, and heritage research in Africa for more than five decades. He is the author of twelve books about African archaeology, technology, history, and heritage as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.

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The chapters in this book were originally published in various special issues of Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

John W. Arthur is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA. He has been working in Ethiopia since 1995 focusing on issues related to ceramic ethno-archaeology, caste, and development of food production.

Kathryn Weedman Arthur is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA. She has been working with Gamo communities in Ethiopia over the last 20 years focusing on issues related to women, craft specialists, and heritage.

Rebecca Bradshaw submitted her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, in which she examines the political and economic impact of archaeology in Sudan. She is currently working as community engagement officer for UCL Qatar in Sudan.

Matthew C. Curtis is an Anthropologist specializing in the Holocene Archaeology of Eastern Africa, with a particular focus on the Archaeology of complex societies in Ethiopia and Eritrea. He is the founder of Eastern African Archaeology Online, a cultural heritage information and advocacy website, and teaches Anthropology and African studies for UCLA Extension, Ventura College, College of the Canyons, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, USA.

Jane Humphris is Head of UCL Qatar Research in Sudan. She holds a PhD in African Archaeometallurgy and an MA in African Archaeology from UCL, London, UK and a BA in Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Manchester, UK. Janes research in Sudan focuses mainly on ancient iron production associated with the Kingdom of Kush. Alongside the research, she runs a community engagement and capacity building program, which involves meetings, interviews, and lectures, as well as training Sudanese students.