ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how ideas associated with the postcolonial critique, the ontological turn and the turn towards things have impacted archaeological theory in the new millennium, particularly the pesky dualisms. These three themes are unified in their concern over the Other. Others are indigenous people living under the oppression of colonialism. Others are 'nonwestern' people with beliefs, practices and things perhaps very different from the ones in the life. Others are the people of the past, which have been told, is a 'foreign country'. Others are any human 'subjects' described and interpreted by western scholars. The chapter considers a bold new move that urges to consider the possibility of multiple worlds. Archaeologists should unite in a defence of things, a defence of those subaltern members of the collective that have been silenced and 'othered' by the imperialist social and humanist discourses.
