Archaeological Knowledge Production and Global Communities: Boundaries and Structure of the Field

Rimvydas Laužikas, Costis Dallas, Suzie Thomas, Ingrida Kelpšiene, Isto Huvila, Pedro Luengo, Helena Nobre, Marina Toumpouri, Vykintas Vaitkevičius

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    Archaeology and material cultural heritage enjoys a particular status as a form of heritage that, capturing the public imagination, has become the locus for the expression and negotiation of regional, national, and intra-national cultural identities. One important question is: why and how do contemporary people engage with archaeological heritage objects, artefacts, information or knowledge outside the realm of an professional, academically-based archaeology? This question is investigated here from the perspective of theoretical considerations based on Yuri Lotmans semiosphere theory, which helps to describe the connections between the centre and peripheries of professional archaeology as sign structures. The centre may be defined according to prevalent scientific paradigms, while periphery in the space of creolisation in which, through interactions with other culturally more distant sign structures, archaeology-related nonprofessional communities emerge. On the basis of these considerations, we use collocation analysis on representative English language corpora to outline the structure of the field of archaeology-related nonprofessional communities, identify salient creolised peripheral spaces and archaeology-related practices, and develop a framework for further investigation of archaeological knowledge production and reuse in the context of global archaeology.
    OriginalspråkOdefinierat/okänt
    Sidor (från-till)350–364
    TidskriftOpen Archaeology
    Volym4
    Nummer1
    DOI
    StatusPublicerad - 2018
    MoE-publikationstypA1 Tidskriftsartikel-refererad

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