Rethinking Colonial Pasts Through Archaeology

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-969669-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1048 g

Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology explores the archaeologies of daily living left by the indigenous and other displaced peoples impacted by European colonial expansion over the last 600 years. This new, comparative focus on the archaeology of indigenous and colonized life has emerged from the gap in conceptual frames of reference between the archaeologies of pre-contact indigenous peoples, and the post-contact archaeologies of the global European experience. Case studies from North America, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Ireland significantly revise conventional historical narratives of those interactions, their presumed impacts, and their ongoing relevance for the material, social, economic, and political lives and identities of contemporary indigenous and other peoples (e.g. metis or mixed ancestry families, and other displaced or colonized communities).

The volume provides a synthetic overview of the trends emerging from this research, contextualizing regional studies in relation to the broader theoretical contributions they reveal, demonstrating how this area of study is contributing to an archaeology practiced and interpreted beyond conceptual constraints such as pre versus post contact, indigenous versus European, history versus archaeology, and archaeologist versus descendant. In addition, the work featured here underscores how this revisionist archaeological perspective challenges dominant tropes that persist in the conventional colonial histories of descendant colonial nation states, and contributes to a de-colonizing of that past in the present. The implications this has for archaeological practice, and for the contemporary descendants of colonized peoples, brings a relevance and immediacy to these archaeological studies that resonates with, and problemetizes, contested claims to a global archaeological heritage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferris, Neal

Harrison, Rodney

Wilcox, Michael V

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Contributors

- Part 1: Ambiguous Definitions and Discordances

- 1: Rodney Harrison: Shared Histories: Rethinking 'Colonized' and 'Colonizer' in the Archaeology of Colonialism

- 2: Stephen W. Silliman: Archaeologies of Indigenous Survivance and Residence: Navigating Colonial and Scholarly Dualities

- 3: Jeff Oliver: Native-Lived Colonialism and the Agency of Life Projects: A View from the Northwest Coast

- 4: Kurt A. Jordan: Pruning Colonialism: Vantage Point, Local Political Economy, and Cultural Entanglement in the Archaeology of Post-1415 Indigenous Peoples

- Part 2: Colonizing and Decolonizing Spaces, Places, Things, and Identities

- 5: M. Dores Cruz: The Nature of Culture: Sites, Ancestors and Trees in the Archaeology of Southern Mozambique

- 6: Michael V. Cox: Indigenous Archaeology and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Social Mobility and Boundary Maintenance in Colonial Contexts

- 7: Jun Sunseri: Hiding in Plain Sight: Engineered colonial landscapes and indigenous reinvention on the New Mexican frontier

- 8: Mark Tveskov and Amie Cohen: Frontier Forts, Ambiguity, and Manifest Destiny: The Changing Role of Fort Lane in the Cultural Landscape of the Oregon Territory, 1853-1929

- 9: Charles R. Cobb and Stephanie Sapp: Imperial Anxiety and the Dissolution of Colonial Space and Practice at Fort Moore, South Carolina

- 10: Jane Lydon: Intimacy and Distance: Life on the Australian Aboriginal Mission

- 11: Diana DiPaolo Loren: Casting Identity: Sumptuous Action and Colonized Bodies in Seventeenth Century New England

- 12: Rob Mann: Persistent Pots, Durable Kettles, and Colonialist Discourse: Aboriginal Pottery Production in French Colonial Basse

- Part 3: Displacement, Hybridity, and Colonizing the Colonial

- 13: Audrey Horning: Challenging Colonial Equations? The Gaelic Experience in Early Modern Ireland

- 14: Matthew A. Beaudoin: The Process of Hybridization among the Labrador Métis

- 15: James A. Delle: Archaeology and the "Tensions of Empire"

- 16: Mark W. Hauser and Stephan Lenik: Material Practices and Colonial Chronologies in Dominica, Eastern Caribbean

- Part 4: Contested Pasts and Contemporary Implications

- 17: Neal Ferris: Being Iroquoian, Being Iroquois: A Thousand Year Heritage of Becoming

- 18: Andrew Martindale: Archaeology Taken to Court: Unravelling the Epistemology of Cultural Tradition in the Context of Aboriginal Title Cases

- 19: Paul J. Lane: Being 'Indigenous' and Being 'Colonized' in Africa: Contrasting Experiences and Their Implications for a Post-Colonial Archaeology

- 20: Peter R. Schmidt: Deconstructing Archaeologies of African Colonialism: Making and Unmaking the Subaltern

- Commentary and Afterword

- 21: Peter van Dommelen: Commentary: Subaltern Archaeologies

- 22: Chris Gosden: Commentary: The Archaeology of the Colonized and Global Archaeological Theory

- 23: Ann B. Stahl: Afterword: Vantage Points in an Archaeology of Colonialism

Über Autor(innen)

Neal Ferris is the Lawson Chair of Canadian Archaeology and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology/Museum of Ontario Archaeology, at the University of Western Ontario.

Rodney Harrison is a Reader in Archaeology, Heritage, and Museum Studies in the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.

Michael V. Wilcox is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University.