ARCHAEOLOGY MATTERS: ACTION ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE MODERN WORLD (Key Questions in Anthropology)
"What matters in Jeremy Sabloff’sArchaeology Mattersis his call that archaeology be political, practical, and located inside and within communities.  I have known Jerry Sabloff over 40 years and never has his archeology been so fresh, pertinent, skillful, and inviting.  He writes to us all as a senior professional who could say he has done enough, but proves here that we have more to do, particularly as citizens."—Mark Leone, University of Maryland"Archaeology matters to Jeremy Sabloff and he convincingly argues that   archaeology should matter to the general public, policy makers, and students. In a very clear and accessible way, Sabloff demonstrates how archaeology has important contributions to make to present-day issues and problems. I hope that this book will become standard fare in introduction to archaeology courses.  Our discipline and our students will be improved when it does."—Randall McGuire, SUNY Binghamton“This book is an archaeological activist’s primer, full of good arguments for enjoining the intellectual battle for a less rapacious society and more sustainable development. Jerry has rightly aimed it at the young (the book is ‘intended for students on introductory archaeological courses’) who are idealistic enough to want to see their archaeology having an impact on contemporary issues, but he does not underestimate how difficult it will be to get some of these messages across, noting wryly that the best known ‘archaeologist’ in America is an unrepentant looter called Indiana Jones – not exactly the role model archaeologists would choose for their caring profession.”—Christopher Catling, SALON - the Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter“Many of [the] case studies show archaeology is being used as a political and legal tool to uphold the rights of traditional committees against governments and commercial interests that would walk over them for short term gain... Depending on your political position (and how idealistic you are), this is a book that will either inspire you to see archaeology in a new and positive light, or send you back to the tranquility of your study, muttering that it was to escape all this political nonsense that you took up archaeology in the first place.”—Current Archaeology“Congratulations to Jeremy Sabloff for producing for producing an eminently readable, important, and slim volume presenting a polemic for a practically oriented, relevant, “action archaeology,” an archaeology that can make quite specific contributions to the solution of – or, at least, can provide insights concerning – problems facing us in the modern world…Archaeology Matters should be in the bookshelf of every archaeologist and would be a terrific volume to adopt in a variety of undergraduate and graduate archaeology courses.”—Ken Feder, Journal of Anthropological Research