Abstract
Archaeological discipline is a search of knowledge of the past through material remains. This chapter anatomizes such a definition of the field in order to understand the decisions already taken by the discipline before arriving to particular contexts of practice. The working of archaeological discipline within the modern/colonial ontology is explored. The question of the place of archaeology within a decolonial turn is debated.
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Haber, A. (2015). Archaeology After Archaeology. In: Haber, A., Shepherd, N. (eds) After Ethics. Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1689-4_8
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