Evaluating Community Archaeology in the UK
Evaluating Community Archaeology in the UK
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评估英国的社区考古学
DOI：
10.1179/175355308x329955
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发表时间：
2008
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0.2
通讯作者：
H. Williams
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作者：
Faye Simpson;H. Williams
社区考古有用吗？在过去的十年里，英国出现了大量使用流行短语“社区考古”的项目。这些项目可以采取许多不同的形式，从研究和开发商资助的项目的公众形象到博物馆、考古单位、大学和考古学会运营的项目。社区考古学也包含了那些由社区自己或在“专业”和“业余”团体和个人之间进行对话的项目。许多这样的项目是由考古学的愿望推动的，以满足一系列公认的教育和社会价值，在现在带来对过去的知识和意识。这些通常被称为社区项目的成功产出。本文认为，评估这些项目有效性的适当标准和方法尚未设计出来。社区考古的目的是什么？是给谁的？它是否有效地实现了目标？根据作者指导社区考古项目的经验，以及正在进行的评估英国社区考古项目有效性的研究，本文旨在提出两种可能的方法：一种是自我反思，一种是民族考古学分析，以评估社区考古对社区本身的实际作用。
Abstract Does community archaeology work? In the UK over the last decade, there has been a boom in projects utilising the popular phrase 'community archaeology'. These projects can take many different forms and have ranged from the public face of research and developer-funded programmes to projects run by museums, archaeological units, universities, and archaeological societies. Community archaeology also encapsulates those projects run by communities themselves or in dialogue between 'professional' and 'amateur' groups and individuals. Many of these projects are driven by a desire for archaeology to meet a range of perceived educational and social values in bringing about knowledge and awareness of the past in the present. These are often claimed as successful outputs of community projects. This paper argues that appropriate criteria and methodologies for evaluating the efficacy of these projects have yet to be designed. What is community archaeology for? Who is it for? And is it effectively meeting its targets? Focusing on the authors' experiences of directing community archaeology projects, together with the ongoing research assessing the efficacy of community archaeology projects in the UK, this paper aims to set out two possible methodologies: one of self-reflexivity, and one of ethnoarchaeological analysis for evaluating what community archaeology actually does for communities themselves.