What do researchers and heritage practitioners do when their concepts of place do not
coincide with those held by local communities? Discussing a case study from Mozambique …

This book arose out of a series of conversations beginning in 2008 and focused on what
both of us considered to be a crisis in the practice of archaeology in Africa: the professional …

In a recent South African Archaeological Bulletin (vol. 66, no. 194), two articles on the
concerns against coal mining at Vele near Mapungubwe were published (Meskell2011; …

In this chapter, the author reviews some of the intellectual legacies that foreground
community approaches in Africa. He considers both archaeology and heritage together as …

Archaeology has to re-think the terms of its practice, because current debate tends to
intervene at the level of theory, which leaves the discipline ungrounded in a theory of …

In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness in archaeology of the need
to engage with the people archaeologists work with and among. The practice of archaeology …

Why is it that archaeology—a discipline that deals with human experience over the long term—
is failing to achieve its potential in tackling global challenges? As Smith (2021) rightly …

Community archaeology has conferred an alternative dimension on conventional
archaeology and heritage management, empowering previously powerless peoples …

Transforming archaeology in Africa is a critical task that both African and Africanist scholars
are striving for. Transforming archaeology is needed not only for the advancement of the …

This book captures community voices in matters relating to their relationship with specific
archaeological heritage sites and landscapes in the Limpopo Province of South Africa …