Laurie Wilkie

University of California, Berkeley, Archaeological Research Facility, Faculty Member

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I completed my PhD at UCLA in 1994 in the Archaeology Program and joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in the fall of 1995. My research interests focus on understanding the lived material realities of social inequality in the 19th and 20th centuries. I'm currently working on a manuscript pulling together archaeological research at Fort Davis, Texas.

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Documentary archaeology

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 26, 2006

Rebuilding, Reinventing, Revitalization, and Bead Bleed

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Program for Act I

National Register Testing at Oakley Plantation (16WF34) West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1991

Remembering (and Forgetting) Black Men’s Service

University Press of Florida eBooks, Jan 10, 2023

The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi

Strung Out on Archaeology: An Introduction to Archaeological Research

African Diaspora Archaeology Newslett er

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Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation

This book should be on the must-read list of all subscribers to the newsletter. Although I have m... more This book should be on the must-read list of all subscribers to the newsletter. Although I have my minor quibbles with the volume, I found it challenging, interesting, and thoroughly worthwhile. I offer somewhat lengthy discussions of what I perceive as possible weaknesses of the study, yet I applaud the overall effort.

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National Register Testing at Oakley Plantation (16WF34) West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1992

10 Living in the Past for a Better Future

Archeological Papers of The American Anthropological Association, Jul 1, 2022

ABSTRACTThis chapter provides a review of the papers focused on developing the ways that Contempo... more ABSTRACTThis chapter provides a review of the papers focused on developing the ways that Contemporary Archaeologies in Old Places provides a framework for understanding ongoing processes of dispossession, displacement, and disenfranchisement historically experienced by marginalized and economically vulnerable populations. At the same time, through community‐engaged praxis, the authors also demonstrate the ways that contemporary archaeological research can contribute to issues of sustainability and social justice, particularly through the use of methodologies that are easily reproduceable by non‐experts. The author tests this assertion by, in the context of recent protests against Anti‐Black police violence, taking a contemporary archaeological perspective to the old place in which she lives, Bushrod, Oakland, where the Black Panther Self‐Defense party was founded and engaged in its early social justice work.

All The Single Ladies: Queering Race In The 19th Century Through The Materiality of African-American Female-Headed Households

Society for Historical Archaeology, 2015

Black Disability Politics in Black Military Service: A Perspective from Nineteenth-Century Fort Davis, Texas

Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage

Bodily Objects

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age, 2021

Plantation Archaeology: Where Past and Present can Collide

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, 1995

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Historical Archaeology and the Study of American Culture

Technology and Culture, 1999

Crooked Island

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Identity and Power

Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2008

Archaeologists routinely identify patterns of material culture as evidence for individual and gro... more Archaeologists routinely identify patterns of material culture as evidence for individual and group identities at multiple scales. At the individual scale, ethnicity, race, gender, age, role, and status are all aspects of personal identity and difference among people. These are simultaneously aspects of group identities, created by processes through which people in the past recognized or claimed commonalities and differences as the basis to form factions, classes, and groups as disparate as households, lineages, communities, and nations. Differences in individual and group identity in the past are often considered potential bases for differential distribution of wealth, different levels of consumption of energy or labor, and the grounds for different levels of prestige. The differential levels of prestige, influence, and ability to exercise agency that exist between different identity groups are outcomes of or proxies for power, conceived of by some archaeologists as a substantial thing people have, and by others as an aspect of relations among people. Power and identity are closely intertwined, so much so that it is difficult to imagine studying one without considering the other.

Reviews of Books:Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination Bridget T. Heneghan

The American Historical Review, 2005

Confronting Ableism in Archaeology with Disability Expertise

by Katherine M Kinkopf and Laurie Wilkie

The SAA Archaeological Record, 2022

During the 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in 2022, some of the... more During the 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in 2022, some of the founders of the newly formed Disabled Archaeologists Network (DAN) organized, led, and participated in a forum discussion about archaeology, ableism, and disability.2 (For our purposes here, “disability” is understood in the most inclusive sense as a range of formal diagnoses, self-diagnoses, and experiences including but not limited to physical, sensory, cognitive, psychiatric disability; non-apparent/invisible disability; chronic illness; Deafness, Blindness, Autism, Neurodivergence, or Madness—all of which can co-occur or overlap.) In particular, the forum highlighted the health concerns and challenges imposed by archaeological fieldwork, while enforcing an unsustainable and toxic culture of mandatory able-bodiedness. Organizing the forum was not simple—the SAA had decided to not host a hybrid conference, requiring attendees to travel to Chicago to participate. Understandably, the forum panel included participants who, due to their own or a loved ones’ circumstances, were unwilling to assume the risks that come with traveling during a pandemic. Given a number of positive COVID cases resulting from the conference, their decisions were sound. In an effort to create a more inclusive panel, we—as the session organizers—created our own mode of hybrid presentation, bringing together a combination of prerecorded discussion that allowed more participants (including one of the co-organizers) to engage and an in-person component that complemented the recorded discussion and allowed for audience participation. Despite the panel showing up as “canceled” at one point on the conference app and on digital signage in the venue, the need for forum conveners to fight for CART transcription services, the SAA’s refusal to provide ASL interpretive services, and a conference room featuring a ramp-less and handrail-less raised seating platform for the presenters, the forum was, sadly—as a commentary on the rampant ableist structures in our discipline—a great success, by our count drawing over 90 participants during the two-hour session on Friday morning.

Full text available by request on ResearchGate or via email, kmkinkopf [at] cpp [dot] edu

Documentary archaeology

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 26, 2006

Rebuilding, Reinventing, Revitalization, and Bead Bleed

Download

Program for Act I

National Register Testing at Oakley Plantation (16WF34) West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1991

Remembering (and Forgetting) Black Men’s Service

University Press of Florida eBooks, Jan 10, 2023

The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi

Strung Out on Archaeology: An Introduction to Archaeological Research

African Diaspora Archaeology Newslett er

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