Society of Black Archaeologists

Are Archaeological Professional Societies/Organizations Designed to Do Nothing? - Ep 273

Are our archaeology organizations(organisations)/societies designed to be against change? History seems to indicate so. We see actions from the United States Office of Strategic Services' (precursor to the CIA) Simple Sabotage Field Manual put into practice all the time. Many systems sure sound a lot like the Spartan apella - ‘This is not a system for popular decision making, it is a system for consensus building, a system to convince everyone – even if they disagree with the action – that most of the spartiates agree and that they should thus go along.’ In this podcast we look at these descriptions of past control systems and sabotage techniques to see how many can be applied to current organizations (organisations) /societies.

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SHA2018 and Sustainable Preservation with the Society of Black Archaeologists - Episode 129

The 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology took place in New Orleans at the beginning of January. Bill White was there and he brings on two coleagues, Dr. Ayana Flewellen and Dr. Justin Dunnavant. They talk about their takeaways from the conference. Bill, Ayana, and Justin also talk about their work in St. Croix over the winter and about working in an area deeply affected by hurricanes and a lack of people to do preservation work. However, they mention that people on the island are working in their own communities to preserve there history.

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SHA 2017 - Episode 102

Chris Webster and Bill White recap their experiences and insights from the Society for Historical (and Underwater) Archaeology meeting in Ft. Worth, Texas. They discuss the balance of terrestrial and underwater archaeology, as represented in presentations at the conference, as well as the role of the Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA). Bill talks about the crossover of SHA and SBA as he trains to dive on a slave ship site in St. Croix.

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