WAAT: “Not Salvage Archeology, but the Archeology of Salvage” by Dr. Caleb Kestle
WAAT: Weekday Afternoon Anthropology Talks
October 7, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
BSB 2105
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Dr. Caleb Kestle of UIC's Center for the Recovery and Identification of the Missing (CRIM) presents "Not Salvage Archeology, but the Archeology of Salvage." Lunch will be provided.
In this talk, Dr. Kestle intends to press the idea of salvage away from what is commonly known as Salvage Archaeology towards an Archaeology of Salvage. That is a reframing of Salvage or “looting” as not simply a process that obscures an archeologist’s ability to reconstruct the past, but also a cultural process that should be studied in its own right. By examining the salvage of a lost American aircraft from WWII in Leyte, Philippines, I wish to show how the process of salvage is an activity that connects local farmers, junk shop owners, and machete manufacturers in a web of economic ties. Furthermore, the destruction of this archeological site is further connected to transactional demands for mineral commodities and recent late-colonial national histories.
Date posted
Oct 1, 2024
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Oct 1, 2024