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I suggest in this short commentary that the state of the discipline of archaeology makes it harder, compared with other disciplines, for its professional representatives to address present-day issues and relate to public debates. I also suggest that maybe the most significant effect of the fact that society’s public intellectuals generally do not have degrees in archaeology is that participants in public debates and policy makers are unaware of how various applications of archaeology and cultural heritage can benefit contemporary society. This potential will therefore have to be realized in different ways.
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Cornelius Holtorf
Linneuniversitet
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This page is a summary of: The need and potential for an archaeology orientated towards the present, Archaeological Dialogues, June 2013, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1380203813000056.
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