ABSTRACT
This chapter creates a pause in the narrative to situate the Haya community projects within the literature that today informs community archaeology and heritage work. The view that heritage is acted out resonates profoundly with the performances observed in Katuruka, that is, the constructions of the Mugasha and Buchwankwanzi shrines are activities that include remembering, commemoration, communicating and passing on knowledge and memories, asserting and expressing identity and social and cultural values and meanings. Community archaeology and heritage work are appealing and important because issues of power and control of archaeology are addressed-who initiates archaeological research or heritage work, who sets the research and interpretative agendas, and who controls the dissemination of results, issues taken up by Atalay, Rizvi, Claire Smith, and others. Atalay writes compellingly about the need for archaeology to develop new methodologies and new theoretical approaches based on community initiatives in archaeology and heritage work.
