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Dr. Sonya Atalay is a Native American (Anishinabe-Ojibwe) anthropologist and archaeologist and a prominent advocate for community-based and participatory research (CBPR). Dr. Atalay is one of the first of her people to undertake tertiary studies in archaeology.
Atalay grew up in Michigan. She completed her B.A. in Anthropology and Classical Archaeology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1991. In 1997 Atalay first undertook field excavations at the site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey, analyzing clay and ceramics to investigate prehistoric cooking practices. She completed her M.A. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.
In 2003, Atalay obtained her Ph.D. in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Subsequently, she has been awarded the positions of UC Berkeley President’s Postdoctoral Fellow (2003–2005) and Stanford University’s NSF Postdoctoral Scholar (2005–2007). From 2007 to 2012, Dr. Atalay held the role of Assistant Professor in the...
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References
Atalay, S. 2005. Domesticating clay: the role of clay balls, mini balls, and geometric objects in daily life at Çatalhöyük, in I. Hodder (ed.) Changing materialities at Çatalhöyük: reports from the 1995-99 seasons (Çatalhöyük Project 5): 139-68. London: British Institute at Ankara.
- 2006. No sense of the struggle: giving voice to our survivance at the National Museum of the American Indian. American Indian Quarterly 30(4): 597-618.
- 2010. ‘We don't talk about Çatalhöyük, we live it’: sustainable archaeological practice through community-based participatory research. World Archaeology 42(3): 418-29. doi: 0.1080/00438243.2010.497394
- 2012. Community based archaeology: research with, by and for indigenous and local communities. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Further Reading
Atalay, S. 2007. Global application of indigenous archaeology: community based participatory research in Turkey. Archaeologies 3(3): 249-70.
- 2008. Pedagogy of decolonization: advancing archaeological practice through education, in S. W. Silliman (ed.) Collaborating at the trowel’s edge: teaching and learning in indigenous archaeology: 123-44. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
- 2009. Raise your head and be proud Ojibwekwe, in G. Nicholas (ed.) Being and becoming Indigenous archaeologists: 45-54. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press.
- 2012. ‘Diba Jimooyung’ - telling our story: colonization and decolonization of archaeological practice from an Anishinabe perspective, in U. Rizvi & J. Lydon (ed.) World Archaeological Congress (WAC) handbook on postcolonialism in archaeology: 61-72. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press.
- (ed.). 2006. Decolonizing archaeology – efforts to transform a discipline. American Indian Quarterly 30(3).
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Jenkins, E. (2014). Atalay, Sonya. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_52
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