Teaching revolutionary archaeology: African experiments in history making and heritage management

Transformation as Development: Southern Africa Perspectives on Capacity Building and Heritage

“…The drive to incorporate participatory perspectives in archaeological knowledge production is a familiar one in Africa (e.g. Schmidt 2005Schmidt , 2011Chirikure and Pwiti 2008;Jopela 2011), but here we are concerned with where this intersects with the imperatives of livelihoods that transformation and capacitation-as-development position themselves to address. The question of how to build capacity demands that we engage with the question of what work we want heritage to do, to the extent that this devolves to the choices made by individual actors or clusters of actors.…”

Rediscovering Community Archaeology in Africa and Reframing its Practice

“…The methods that were developed with Haya collaborators and communities during the 1969-84 period were later taken into the university classroom, laboratory, and field schools when the formal teaching of archaeology was launched in Tanzania in 1985 (Schmidt 2005). Amongst the innovations introduced into the instructional programme at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) was the idea, soon formalized as a requirement, that students design their field school research project.…”