Interview with Randall McGuire

Abstract

Randall H. McGuire is Distinguished Professor at the Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA. McGuire is an archaeologist primarily interested in the development of power relations in the past and present. He has carried out most of his field work in the U.S. Southwest and is currently conducting a long-term field project in northwest Mexico. He has also done historical archaeology and oral history research in the northeastern U.S. In 2010, he completed a project investigating the 1913-1914 coal strike in southern Colorado. Since 2011 he has done research in contemporary archaeology on the U.S. – Mexico border around Nogales, Arizona. In addition to historical archaeology, history and ethnology, his interests include quantitative methods, social theory, cultural resource management and archaeomagnetic dating.

The first part of this interview was conducted in May 2014 at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) during the course “Archaeology as Political Action” based on his book with the same name. The course was organized by the Graduate Program in Anthropology and the Laboratory of Archeology at FAFICH/UFMG.