ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, Indigenous CRM was defined as the process of interlinked and contested relations between archaeologists, Indigenous people, governments and their bureaucracies. The central problem addressed by this chapter is how to make sense of and explain these interrelations and, more specifically, to consider whether current archaeological theory offers a suitable framework for understanding the nature and practice of archaeology within CRM. Can contemporary archaeological theory make sense of what archaeology ‘does’ within the context of CRM?
