Yannis Hamilakis 🍉
@yannisham.bsky.social
Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. Politics of the past (and the present), sensoriality and the body, contemporary archaeology, theory and philosophy, migration: https://brown.academia.edu/YannisHamilakis
I am grateful for all feedback, including yours. I am just pointing out that I start from the premise that there is not one archaeology but many...
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I am grateful for all feedback, including yours. I am just pointing out that I start from the premise that there is not one archaeology but many...
There is the official, modernist archaeology, part and parcel of coloniality of knowledge and power, and then there are other, alternative, indigenous archaeologies, decolonial archaeologies, counter-modern archaeologies...Some of us have written a lot about them, and some even try to practice them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
There is the official, modernist archaeology, part and parcel of coloniality of knowledge and power, and then there are other, alternative, indigenous archaeologies, decolonial archaeologies, counter-modern archaeologies...Some of us have written a lot about them, and some even try to practice them.
Stopping digging altogether and in all cases? Or opting for small-scale archaeological ethnographic projects, in consultation with local communities, and making digging only one, and perhaps not the most important component?
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Stopping digging altogether and in all cases? Or opting for small-scale archaeological ethnographic projects, in consultation with local communities, and making digging only one, and perhaps not the most important component?