Archaeology and International Development in Africa

Archaeologists Breen (U. of Ulster) and Rhodes (National Trust for Scotland and Open U., Scotland) began this quest by questioning their own career choices, elite Western scholars blithely doing fieldwork in sub-Saharan Africa while people around them suffered from poverty, hunger, war, and environmental damage. From there they broadened their question to the profession and its endeavors. The results they share suggest how they, their colleagues, archaeology, and Western academia as a whole can engage with the problems in Africa and solutions to them. Among their topics are issues and threats, cultural resource management in Africa, an agency and legislative framework, development directions and cultural heritage linkages, and towards sustainable practice. Distributed in the US by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)