TY - JOUR
T1 - Unearthing the Native Past
T2 - Citizen Archaeology and Modern (Non)Belonging at the Pueblo Grande Museum
AU - Chevrette, Roberta
AU - Hess, Aaron
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © 2015 National Communication Association.
PY - 2015/4/3
Y1 - 2015/4/3
N2 - Portrayals of the US Southwest's Native American inhabitants as “primitive” relics have been shaped by the intertwining practices of archaeological collection and museum display. Focusing on the Pueblo Grande Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, this essay analyzes the interpellation of museum visitors as citizen archaeologists, a process that re/produces racialized discourses through rhetorics of science and time. It is argued that as visitors excavate remnants of the past they engage an archaeological vision that reinforces dominant constructions of “modern” citizenship. This vision maintains colonial histories by disallowing Native peoples both authorship of the past and belonging in the present.
AB - Portrayals of the US Southwest's Native American inhabitants as “primitive” relics have been shaped by the intertwining practices of archaeological collection and museum display. Focusing on the Pueblo Grande Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, this essay analyzes the interpellation of museum visitors as citizen archaeologists, a process that re/produces racialized discourses through rhetorics of science and time. It is argued that as visitors excavate remnants of the past they engage an archaeological vision that reinforces dominant constructions of “modern” citizenship. This vision maintains colonial histories by disallowing Native peoples both authorship of the past and belonging in the present.
KW - Citizen Archaeology
KW - Native American Other
KW - Primitivism
KW - Pueblo Grande Museum
KW - US Southwest
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U2 - 10.1080/14791420.2015.1012214
DO - 10.1080/14791420.2015.1012214
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84927966900
SN - 1479-1420
VL - 12
SP - 139
EP - 158
JO - Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies
JF - Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies
IS - 2
ER -