The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology seeks to reappraise the place of archaeology in the contemporary world by providing a series of essays that critically engage with both old and current debates in the field of public archaeology. Divided into four distinct sections and drawing across disciplines in this dynamic field, the volume aims to evaluate the range of research strategies and methods used in archaeological heritage and museum studies, identify and contribute to key contemporary debates, critically explore the history of archaeological resource management, and question the fundamental principles and practices through which the archaeological past is understood and used today.

1 - Towards an international comparative history of archaeological heritage management
2 - America s cherished reserves: the enduring significance in the USA of the 1916 National Park Organic Act
3 - Archaeologists and metal-detector users in England and Wales: past, present, and future
4 - Making sense of the history of archaeological representation
5 - Public archaeology in Latin America
6 - Archaeology and politics in the Third World, with special reference to India
7 - Writing histories of archaeology
8 - Constrained by commonsense: the authorized heritage discourse in contemporary debates
9 - A frame to hang clouds on : cognitive ownership, landscape, and heritage management
10 - Living with landscapes of heritage
11 - Participatory action research and archaeology
12 - Uncovering the antiquities market
13 - The value of a looted object: stakeholder perceptions in the antiquities trade
14 - From heritage to stewardship: defining the sustainable care of archaeological places
15 - People and landscape
16 - CRM archaeology: the view from California
17 - Agriculture, environmental conservation, and archaeological curation in historic landscapes
18 - Archive archaeology
19 - Archaeology as a profession
20 - Public benefits of public archaeology
21 - Enhancing public archaeology through community service learning
22 - Publicizing archaeology in Britain in the late twentieth century: a personal view
23 - Archaeological communities and languages
24 - Changing of the guards : the ethics of public interpretation at cultural heritage sites
25 - Emptying the magician s hat: participatory GIS-based research in Fiji
26 - Class, labour, and the public
27 - Public education in archaeology in North America: the long view
28 - Teaching through rather than about: education in the context of public archaeology
29 - A vision for archaeological literacy
30 - Public archaeology and the US culture wars
31 - Descent community partnering, the politics of time, and the logistics of reality: tales from North American, African diaspora, archaeology
32 - The anthropology of archaeology: the benefits of public intervention at African American archaeological sites
33 - Public archaeology and indigenous archaeology: intersections and divergences from a Native American perspective
34 - Inclusive, accessible, archaeology

Robin Skeates is Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University. Carol McDavid is Executive Director at the Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc. (CARI) in Houston, Texas. John Carman is Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Heritage Valuation at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.