Indigenist Archaeology: New Ways of Knowing the Past and Present

该项目旨在探索澳大利亚土著世界观如何改变考古实践和对过去的理解。考古研究实践通常依赖于西方的科学、理论和解释框架。作为另一种方法，我们将为如何实践考古学开发一种新的认识论概念化。根据对北领地和南澳大利亚州六个土著社区的调查和访谈，并利用土著理论和概念，该项目将确定和探索如何将土著的认识方式(认识论)、存在方式(本体论)和行为方式(价值论)纳入考古研究的新模式，我们称之为“土著考古学”。

This project aims to explore how Indigenous Australian worldviews can transform archaeological practice and understandings of the past. Archaeological research practice has typically relied on Western science, theories and interpretive frameworks. As an alternative approach, we will develop a new epistemological conceptualisation for how archaeology can be practiced. Based on surveys and interviews with six Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and South Australia, and using Indigenous theories and concepts, the project will identify and explore how Aboriginal ways of knowing (epistemology), being (ontology) and doing (axiology) can be integrated into a new model for archaeological research that we call “Indigenist Archaeology”.