ABSTRACT In 2016 Olivier Gosselain published a paper in Archaeological Dialogues suggesting that ethnoarchaeology should “go to hell”. His provocation misrepresents the ethnoarchaeology of the past quarter century, as is evident in a literature of which he appears largely unaware. Here we refute his charges, showing, for example, that ethnoarchaeologists neither regard the societies with which we work as living fossils, nor do we entertain naïve stereotypes regarding their workings. Our refutations are accompanied by commentaries on topics raised that introduce readers to the substantial recent literature. Far from a wreck, ethnoarchaeology, a form of material culture studies practiced by and mainly for archaeologists, has vigor and relevance, making theoretical, methodological and historical contributions that are worldwide in scope. And as we demonstrate for Africa, non-Western ethnoarchaeologists contribute substantially to the ethnoarchaeological literature.

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与民族考古学一起下地狱……然后回来！

摘要 2016 年，奥利维尔·戈塞兰 (Olivier Gosselin) 在《考古对话》(Archaeological Dialogues) 上发表了一篇论文，建议民族考古学应该“下地狱”。他的挑衅歪曲了过去四分之一世纪的民族考古学，这在他似乎基本上不知道的文献中很明显。在这里，我们驳斥了他的指控，例如，表明民族考古学家既不将我们工作的社会视为活化石，也不会对他们的运作抱有天真的刻板印象。我们的反驳伴随着对提出的主题的评论，向读者介绍了大量的近期文献。远非沉船，民族考古学是一种主要由考古学家实践的物质文化研究形式，具有活力和相关性，在理论、方法和历史方面做出了全球范围的贡献。