So admittedly I came to this class slightly interested in the subject, but more thinking "well I need to take it for my degree". I am leaving this class with an entirely different attitude about archaeology. This class has been truly more then I could hope for. Professor Erin McGuire is one of the greatest profs I have had, and this class one of the most amazing eye opening I have taken.
Truthfully I am not a person who is into archaeology very much, I am more of a cultural anthropologist, this classes interesting material, and approach to learning about death and burial really changed my my mind about archaeology and I am 100% sure my future attitude when approaching a archaeology class will be very different. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and found that the none testing of the material made me really have a chance to not worry about whether or not I could remember a thousand and one dates, but instead to understand the material and approach it will a "want" to learn rather than a "need" to learn urgency.
The guest speakers who came in were really amazing and I really saw a different side of archaeology where there is a component and piece more then just researching and looking at old sites. I especially was impacted by the Chinese burial speaker and her work, and presentation about ethics and the residential schools. Presenting topics and connecting theories to case studies helped exponentially and made this a thrilling journey and an experience.
It truly was an amazing awakening to archaeology and a chance to see potential in studying anthropology, with relevant agency in more then just cultural anthropology. There is an amazing quote that I thing sums up this class, "remember the past, live in the present, and look to the future." I think that this class has incorporated all of this and really was a true fantastic experience.
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