I was really happy that Norwegian Archaeological Review invited me to read and review Rachael Kiddey’s first book Homeless Heritage: Collaborative Social Archaeology as Therapeutic Practice. This was not least because I became friends with her, what feels like many years ago now, when she first moved to York to work on the PhD on which this book is based. I was living in the city too for some of that time, with my first post-PhD job at the Council for British Archaeology. I knew then that Rachael was onto something really important with her research – very much a collaboration with the colleagues she describes here; the homeless people in Bristol and York who have given their time and become involved with interpreting the places and material culture that have significance in their lives, as well as other archaeologists, students and specialists who have collaborated with her in different ways. I was also nonetheless nervous about committing to writing a review – not for any personal or political reasons, or a fear of having to be honest about a friend and colleague’s work (in our small-ish field this is inevitable at some point), but because like many academics I simply have too much on my plate. Therefore agreeing to take on yet another assignment carried with it risks of over-stretching myself. I need not have worried. As soon as I picked the book up for a quick glance over, I was barely able to put it down. I found myself rapidly devouring every chapter, eager especially to learn about the personal experiences and anecdotes connected to the different homeless colleagues that Kiddey intersperses so well between the theories, contextual historiographies, methodologies and research results. It is largely in part due to this approach, of intertwining engaging storytelling with high standard academic writing, which is the key to this book’s success. It is almost the case that I want to foreground this review with a ‘spoiler alert’, so as not to ruin the experience for those that have not yet read the book! Homeless Heritage is the product of a reworking of doctoral research for a broader market. Unlike many such publications, it succeeds in becoming an engaging piece in its own right. The chapters are arranged along logical lines – with the first two chapters introducing both Kiddey’s research background and the environment in which she worked, particularly Bristol’s now iconic Stokes Croft district where this story, and research, first begin. She then brings broader theoretical framing by situating her work not only in archaeological theory but also in the historiographical context of homelessness, including – fascinatingly and horrifyingly – the impact of British vagrancy laws on demonizing homelessness across the globe; one of many less-thancheering legacies of the British Empire. Chapters 3 and 4 bring the reader’s focus out and away from Kiddey’s case studies, in order to equip us as readers with the necessary lenses with which to view her research. However, her (by this stage in the book familiar) technique of interspersing the sections with anecdotes and stories from her experiences and encounters during her research serves the purpose of reminding the reader what and who this book is really about, even while they grapple with large scale, complex (but well explained) concepts. Further on still into the book, we encounter a chapter on the idea of an ‘ethic of care’, which lays out the ethical considerations that Kiddey has worked with in her research. This is research that, while situated in archaeology, straddles also anthropological and ethnographic approaches. Working with people who live sometimes chaotic, and very

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无家可归的遗产。作为治疗实践的协作社会考古学

我很高兴挪威考古评论邀请我阅读和评论 Rachael Kiddey 的第一本书无家可归的遗产：作为治疗实践的协作社会考古学。这尤其是因为我和她成为了朋友，感觉就像多年前，当她第一次搬到约克大学攻读这本书所依据的博士学位时。那段时间我也住在这座城市，我的第一份博士后工作是在英国考古委员会。我当时就知道瑞秋的研究非常重要——与她在这里描述的同事的合作非常重要；布里斯托尔和约克的无家可归者付出了时间并参与了解释对他们生活具有重要意义的地方和物质文化，以及其他考古学家，以不同方式与她合作的学生和专家。尽管如此，我也对撰写评论感到紧张——不是出于任何个人或政治原因，也不是出于对朋友和同事的工作必须诚实的恐惧（在我们这个小领域，这在某些时候是不可避免的），但是因为像许多学者一样，我的盘子里有太多东西了。因此，同意接受另一项任务会带来过度伸展自己的风险。我不必担心。刚拿起这本书快速浏览了一下，我几乎无法放下它。我发现自己很快就读完了每一章，尤其渴望了解与不同无家可归的同事相关的个人经历和轶事，Kiddey 在理论、背景历史学、方法论和研究结果。部分原因在于这种方法，将引人入胜的讲故事与高标准的学术写作交织在一起，这是本书成功的关键。几乎是这样，我想用“剧透警报”来突出这篇评论，以免破坏尚未阅读本书的人的体验！无家可归的遗产是为更广阔的市场重新设计博士研究的产物。与许多此类出版物不同，它成功地凭借自身的力量成为了引人入胜的作品。各章按逻辑顺序排列——前两章介绍了 Kiddey 的研究背景和她工作的环境，特别是布里斯托尔现在标志性的斯托克斯克罗夫特区，这个故事和研究首先在那里开始。然后，她通过将她的工作置于考古理论和无家可归的历史背景中，带来了更广泛的理论框架，包括——令人着迷和可怕的——英国流浪法对全球无家可归者妖魔化的影响；大英帝国许多不那么令人鼓舞的遗产之一。第 3 章和第 4 章将读者的注意力从 Kiddey 的案例研究中移开，以便为我们这些读者提供必要的视角来观察她的研究。然而，她（在这本书的这个阶段已经很熟悉了）在她的研究期间的经历和遭遇中穿插轶事和故事的技巧，其目的是提醒读者这本书的真正内容和谁，即使他们正在努力解决大规模、复杂（但很好解释）的概念。在本书的后面，我们会看到一章关于“护理伦理”的概念，其中阐述了 Kiddey 在她的研究中所涉及的伦理考虑。这项研究虽然位于考古学，但也跨越了人类学和人种学方法。与生活有时混乱且非常