Ethnoarchaeology or simply archaeology?

In this comment I argue that ethnoarchaeology is not the only means for an archaeological engagement with living traditional communities. I suggest that some practices can be better labelled ?archaeology of the present?, due to their lack of interest in providing analogical frameworks of inspiration for archaeology. Instead, the archaeology of the present aims to better understand living societies by using archaeological methods and theories. Rather than pitting one sub-discipline against the other, however, I suggest that they are both necessary and complementary.

Archaeology of the contemporary past. Archaeology of the present. Ethnoarchaeology. Postcolonial theory. Analogy.