@article {9703,
	title = {Archaeology as Federated Knowledge},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {38},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {434-465},
	abstract = {<p>The content of archaeological theory is both internally diverse and, as an enterprise, situated within an array of interpretive frameworks that account for and explain history and its source, culture. Contemporary archaeology emerges from various cultural contexts, meaning that our ability to identify vulnerabilities to ethnocentrism may be challenging, if it is even considered. Following feminist and indigenous scholarship, we argue that all archaeology is oriented to some community and propose a taxonomy of archaeologies based on cultural proximity between archaeologist and subject, proximity which itself emerges from philosophical concurrence that we attribute to less-discursive forms of knowledge transmission within and between individuals. We conclude that 1) all archaeological approaches to historical causality can be accommodated within a proximate/ultimate distinction, and 2) that different cultural understandings of history are both historically causal and most productively arranged laterally in a federated scheme. We conclude that the primary archaeological ambition, to understand history, is best served by attention to navigation across these borders.</p>},
	author = {Andrew Martindale and George P. Nicholas}
}
