Archaeology and anthropology, despite their commonalities, have had a rather asymmetrical
relationship, and the periodic attempts at closer collaboration resulted in mutual frustration …

In South America, as elsewhere, development projects have to go through environmental
permitting, a component of which is the archaeological assessment of the areas to be …

In governance contexts, the archaeologist's agenda is seldom articulated baldly as servicing
the needs of archaeologists. Importantly, however, the status quo in archaeology is …

This chapter expands on the activist commitments to preservation-focused and community-
based archaeologies and to knowledge creation, critical scrutiny and action. It considers the …

Since the 1980s, archaeology has been further embedded in a reinforced and accelerating
capitalist ideology, namely neo-liberalism. Most archaeologists had no alternative but to …

During the 1980s, the adoption of neoliberal precepts in archaeology initiated the process of
its privatisation. This process in turn created a new economic niche called contract …

Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study,
Maritime Heritage in Crisis explores the causes and consequences of the contemporary …

This article addresses past and present bioarchaeological practices and human remains
management in Quebec; it focuses on the challenges of creating a bioarchaeological …

Any overview of archaeological ethics in North America and how responsive or not it is to
broader, global multicultural ethical discourses in large part must acknowledge that …

Since the 1980s, privatisation of the archaeological sector mirrored its contextual political
economy. After the financial crisis of 2008, and its devastating effects on the professional …