Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Abstracts”
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How do we keep “bro-ing” away from open access archaeology?: Open Access, Cultural Appropriation, and Archaeology
William A. White, III Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract “Bro-ing” is a market research practice pioneered by Nike and reported by Naomi Klein (2000:75) where designers bring prototypes to inner-city neighborhoods to gauge reactions to new styles and products. This practice also creates buzz that can be used to sell those products to the same communities.
Open access archaeology helps make archaeological data available to larger research communities.
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Abstract: Chacoan Complexities
The Chaco Research Archive (CRA, chacoarchive.org) has been available since 2004 and the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC, salmonpueblo.org) launched in May of 2018. These web-based portals, as their names indicate, were both designed primarily with the academic researcher in mind. While these resources acknowledge the diverse descendant communities within the Southwest, neither has deliberately focused on eliciting robust Native perspectives to coincide with Euro-American forms of archaeological classification and interpretation.