ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a unique effort of heritage research and revitalization as a rare initiative of participatory community research and preservation. It highlights a personal narrative, accompanied by a keen awareness of authors observations relate to a range of experiences found in the practice of collaborative archaeology and heritage, particularly in North America and Australia. The chapter claims that community archaeology and heritage studies foster a sense of parochialism, possessiveness, and activist agendas are characterizations that belie a lack of familiarity with processes of local engagement. In the chapter, the author tack between his experiences as a transitory member of several communities seeking new directions for futures and formal literature by discussing topics under archaeology and heritage studies. It is important to place local experiences and experiments into a broader context as evidenced in the literature, and critical that the inside story be presented in as honest and forthright manner, compelling a narrative partially wrapped in an auto ethnographic approach.
