Hello everyone,
My name is Matt Greer and I am interested in organising a session at SAA
2023 on the intersection of archaeology and Black studies. I was wondering
if anyone would be interested in presenting in a session like this or would
be interested in co-organizing it with me. A tentative abstract is below.
*Archaeology as Black Studies *
Cultural anthropologist Savannah Shange (2019: 7, 10) writes that because
Black studies scholars “work largely in the fields of English, history, and
film studies, we don’t know much about how their interventions map onto
blackness as lived and loved on a daily basis across the diaspora.” This,
she argues, creates a space for anthropology to serve as a critical branch
of Black studies, as our work can often account for “the daily practices
that facilitate Black material and symbolic death” in ways that other
disciplines cannot. Following Shange’s lead, this session explores what it
would look like for archaeology in particular to operate as a critical
branch of Black studies by considering three interrelated questions. First,
how can archaeological case studies add new texture to the theories
proposed by Black studies scholars? Second, how would archaeological
theories and methods need to change for us to align our work with Black
studies? And third, can we push the spatial, temporal, and thematic
boundaries of Black studies by applying the ideas of scholars like Angela
Davis, W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Saidiya Hartman, bell hooks, or Sylvia
Wynter to studies of Spanish colonialism, Inka or Roman imperialism, or
deep prehistory?
Thank you all for considering this,
Matt Greer
Matthew C. Greer, PhD
(he/him)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor
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