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Gazing upon the Invisible: Women and Children at the Old Baton Rouge Penitentiary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Connie H. Nobles
Connie H. Nobles*
Affiliation:
Department of Teacher Education, SLU 10749, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402
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Abstract

This research involves analysis of two works related to the same archaeological site. The archaeologists’ unconscious exclusion of information found in their scholarly report resulted in a public booklet that tells only part of the history of this site. A third historic document supplements this comparison and provides detailed information relevant to this analysis. Professional archaeologists interact with the public on multiple levels and their connections with education and curricula are established through their writings as well as more deliberate and obvious choices. Increasing levels of consciousness and recognition of responsibility to public education could result in more careful analysis of material culture, interpretation, and choices for all works involving archaeological sites. Foucault (in Gordon 1980) discussed the inclusion of hidden ruses and discourses about decisions, regulations, and strategies pertaining to particular institutions. Using the work of critical theorists, these issues are interwoven to examine this archaeological investigation with connections to the past through patterns that still pervade today.

Resumen

Resumen

Esta investigatión se enfoca en dos publicaciones sobre el mismo sitio arqueológico. La exclusión subconciente de la información encontrada por los arqueálogos résulte en un panfleto publico, que describe parcialmente la historia de este sitio arqueológico. Estas arqueálogos en compania de ciudadanos han desarrollado altos nivelés pedagógicos y planes de estudio que ofrecen oportunidades para reflexionar y aumentar la responsabilidad ciudadana en los temas concernientes a la cultura, tradición, y concervación de este yacimiento arqueológico. En 1980 Foucault enfatizó los misterios escondidos y los discursos que hacen referencia a la creación de leyes, decisiones, y estrategias adoptadas por ciertas instituciones. El trabajo de estos críticos y teóricos muestra la conexián y validez de reglas y normas que aun siguen vigentes.

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Information
American Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 5 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 2000

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