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.
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- Unearthing the Native Past: Citizen Archaeology and Modern (Non) Belonging at the Pueblo Grande Museum
- Chevrette, Roberta (Author)
- Hess, Aaron (Author)
- New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.1080/14791420.2015.1012214
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1479-1420
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1479-4233
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Chevrette, Roberta, & Hess, Aaron (2015). Unearthing the Native Past: Citizen Archaeology and Modern (Non) Belonging at the Pueblo Grande Museum. COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL-CULTURAL STUDIES, 12(2), 139-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2015.1012214