Endgame
Contemplating archaeology’s demise
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https://doi.org/10.24885/sab.v34i2.896Keywords:
critical archaeology, future studies, enchantment-disenchantmentAbstract
Scholars have been contemplating archaeology’s demise for two decades. In this paper, we examine their critiques and predict that archaeologists will continue promoting archaeology—while ignoring its core problems—until such time that governments stop empowering archaeologists and archaeology becomes socially and economically untenable. While not in imminent peril, archaeologists have begun restorying archaeology’s future by recasting themselves as enchanted missionaries that are healing the world.
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