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Erik Damián Reyes Morales, about Lisa Overholtzer, Toward a Small Data Archaeology: Otomí, Aztec Imperial, and Spanish Colonial Xaltocan, Mexico, 2025.

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Lisa Overholtzer’s Toward a Small Data Archaeology: Otomí, Aztec Imperial, and Spanish Colonial Xaltocan, Mexico offers an archaeological approach to everyday life in Postclassic and early colonial Xaltocan rooted in data feminism. Following Donna Haraway and other scholars, Overholtzer argues that the current infatuation with big data and AI in archaeology is deafeningly male, white, and technoheroic, representing the embodiment of hegemonic, heteronormative, and ultimately masculinist and colonialist fantasies. In response, Overholtzer relies on Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein’s approach called data feminism. According to these authors, this method employs data science to combat big data’s tendencies, and its principles include examining and challenging power, elevating embodiment and emotion, rethinking hierarchies and binaries, embracing pluralism, contemplating context, and rendering labor visible. Overholtzer argues that data feminism also redirects the analysis from modern Western ontological frameworks toward Indigenous ones.

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