WHAT CAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS LEARN FROM COMMUNITIES
Fri, 03 Sept
|https://bit.ly/RobynHumphreysHubTalk
Robyn is a PhD student in the Archaeology Department and the Human Evolutionary Research Institute, UCT. She has a MSc Archaeology and a BSc (med) Hons in Human Genetics both from UCT. She is currently a research assistant in the San and Khoi Centre.
Time & Location
03 Sept 2021, 13:00 – 14:00
https://bit.ly/RobynHumphreysHubTalk
About the event
Robyn is interested in how community engagement around human remains research can decolonize biological anthropology and archaeology as disciplines.
Often community consultation is seen as an opportunity to "give back" to communities regarding their heritage. However, given South Africa's history of anti-colonial and liberation movements we often have more to learn from communities than we think. Communities have a history of mobilizing and effectively challenging distorted deas used to justily their oppression.
In this talk I will discuss how community knowledge can open up new possibilities for archaeological sites. Instead of archaeological sites being sources of data they can be sites of transformation, conscientisation and justice through community intervention.