@article {9795,
	title = {The Messy Business of Archaeology as Participatory Local Knowledge: A Conversation Between the St{\'o}:lo Nation and Knowle West},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {38},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {466-495},
	abstract = {<p>Archaeology assumes itself as a discipline through a practice of boundary-making that merges the past with the present. It is, in this practice, increasingly critiqued for being ethnocentric and separating power from the communities it claims to represent. In response, archaeology is experiencing a turn toward \&ldquo;community\&rdquo;. Examining two community archaeology case studies, we assess whether archaeology can be transformed into a discipline that productively participates in the liveliness and messy connectedness of objects, peoples, histories and cultures\&mdash;in contrast to a conventionally detached practice of objectifying other peoples\&rsquo; lifeways. In both cases, archaeological and descent communities play direct and central decision-making roles in this traditionally \&ldquo;distanced\&rdquo; discipline. They demonstrate means of re-figuring archaeology as a participatory practice. Community-founded archaeology is thus shown to transform methods commonly supporting institutional reproduction into a radically indigenous, emically structured, set of knowledge practices and outcomes.</p>}
}
