Archaeology and post-colonialism in South Africa : the theory, practice and politics of archaeology after apartheid

I take my lead from a paper by Bruce Trigger (1984) in which he divides the disciplinary field into three modes or forms of archaeology: a colonialist archaeology, a nationalist archaeology and an imperialist archaeology. He goes on to suggest (1990) that South African archaeology is the most colonialist archaeology of all. Trigger was writing at a point before the current political transformation in South Africa had emerged over the horizon of visibility. Writing somewhat later, and from the point of view of a Third World archaeologist, I ask: What would a post-colonial archaeology look like? In particular, what would it look like from the point of view of South Africa in the late 1990s?

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Archaeology

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Author dc:creator

• Shepherd, Nick

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hall, Martin

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11702

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11702