assemblage wants to be a forum for criticism and debate. With this issue, we introduce a discussion structured around a theme, which we hope will be the first in a series. Philip Duke (Fort Lewis College) and Dean Saitta (Denver University) address the neglected potential of archaeologies of class: what role does most archaeologists' silence about this topic play in archaeological discourse and the institutions it maintains? They endeavour with Bill Frazer (Sheffield University) to sort out some of the conceptual and theoretical problems. Elsewhere in the Forum, Paul Blinkhorn and Chris Cumberpatch throw the gauntlet down before their fellow archaeological consultants on grounds of top-down management and methodology, while Willy Kitchen takes on recent problems of nationalism and political procedure in the World Archaeological Congress.
THE ISSUE 4 DISCUSSION
An Emancipatory Archaeology for the Working
Class
by P. Duke and
D.J. Saitta
Commentary on 'An emancipatory archaeology for the working class':
Class and Archaeology -- an Opinion
by B. Frazer
Response to Bill Frazer
by D.J. Saitta and P. Duke
OTHER FORENSIC FORAYS
The Interpretation of Artefacts and the Tyranny of the Field
Archaeologist
by P.W.
Blinkhorn and C.G. Cumberpatch
The World Archaeological Congress: Indian Summer or Nuclear
Winter?
by W.H.
Kitchen
Copyright © assemblage 1998