Governmentality and Social Capital in Tribal/Federal Relations Regarding Heritage Consultation

Abstract

This final report summarizes the third and final year of a project studying what appears to be an impasse in tribal/federal discourse regarding heritage consultation as currently practiced in the United States. We use Foucault's concept of governmentality to address cultural resource management (CRM) practices for a qualitative study addressing why tensions between tribes and federal agencies arise in heritage discourse, in spite of overlapping goals. Using practice and agency theories and the concept of social capital (i.e., valued relations with others), we will develop a model for improved tribal/federal heritage consultation; this will be accomplished by working collaboratively with tribal heritage specialists toward potential solutions to this problem. Ultimately, the goal is to outline a strategy for humanizing the process of respectful consultation between tribes and the federal government. The majority of work over the past year has centered on a collaborative archaeology project at Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 08, 2016
Accession Number
AD1011124

Entities

People

  • Sarah E. Cowie

Organizations

  • University of Nevada, Reno

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Archeology
  • California
  • Cultural Resources
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Historic Preservation
  • National Governments
  • Native Americans
  • North America
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Resource Management
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • United States

Readers

  • Archaeological Resource Survey
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).