Community Outreach Strategies in Southeast Asian Archaeology Fieldwork

• In Event: Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Investigations in Southeast Asia: Archaeology, History, and Colonialism

Abstract

Drawing on lessons learned over 20 years of fieldwork in Indonesia, Timor Leste, the Philippines, and the USA, this paper presents various ways of engaging local communities in archaeological projects, including successes and failures, short and long term. Also discussed are overall aims of community-based archaeological research, and ways in which local histories can impact the reception of researchers in fieldwork situations, as well as ways in which archaeological research can impact on local histories and those who create and use them.

Author

• Peter Lape, University of Washington