Rethinking colonial pasts through archaeology /

Rethinking colonial pasts through archaeology /

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Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Description:xvi, 511 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Indigenous peoples -- Colonization.
Colonization -- Social aspects.
Archaeology.
Archaeology.
Colonization -- Social aspects.
Indigenous peoples.
Europe -- Colonies -- History.
Format: Map Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10120860
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Other authors / contributors:Ferris, Neal, 1960- editor.
Harrison, Rodney, 1974- editor.
Wilcox, Michael V. (Michael Vincent), 1967- editor.
ISBN:9780199696697
0199696691
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This book 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).0The 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.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Rethinking Colonial Pasts through the Archaeologies of the Colonized
  • Part I. Ambiguous Definitions and Discordances
  • 1. Shared Histories: Rethinking 'Colonized' and 'Colonizer' in the Archaeology of Colonialism
  • 2. Archaeologies of Indigenous Survivance and Residence: Navigating Colonial and Scholarly Dualities
  • 3. Native-lived Colonialism and the Agency of Life Projects: A View from the Northwest Coast
  • 4. Pruning Colonialism: Vantage Point, Local Political Economy, and Cultural Entanglement in the Archaeology of Post-1415 Indigenous Peoples
  • Part II. Colonizing and Decolonizing Spaces, Places, Things, and Identities
  • 5. The Nature of Culture: Sites, Ancestors, and Trees in the Archaeology of Southern Mozambique
  • 6. Indigenous Archaeology and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Social Mobility and Boundary Maintenance in Colonial Contexts
  • 7. Hiding in Plain Sight: Engineered Colonial Landscapes and Indigenous Reinvention on the New Mexican Frontier
  • 8. Frontier Forts, Ambiguity, and Manifest Destiny: The Changing Role of Fort Lane in the Cultural Landscape of the Oregon Territory, 1853-1929
  • 9. Imperial Anxiety and the Dissolution of Colonial Space and Practice at Fort Moore, South Carolina
  • 10. Intimacy and Distance: Life on the Australian Aboriginal Mission
  • 11. Casting Identity: Sumptuous Action and Colonized Bodies in Seventeenth-century New England
  • 12. Persistent Pots, Durable Kettles, and Colonialist Discourse: Aboriginal Pottery Production in French Colonial Basse Louisiane and the pays d'en haut
  • Part III. Displacement, Hybridity, and Colonizing the Colonial
  • 13. Challenging Colonial Equations? The Gaelic Experience in Early Modern Ireland
  • 14. The Process of Hybridization among the Labrador Métis
  • 15. Archaeology and the 'Tensions of Empire'
  • 16. Material Practices and Colonial Chronologies in Dominica, Eastern Caribbean
  • Part IV. Contested Pasts and Contemporary Implications
  • 17. Being Iroquoian, Being Iroquois: A Thousand-year Heritage of Becoming
  • 18. Archaeology Taken to Court: Unravelling the Epistemology of Cultural Tradition in the Context of Aboriginal Title Cases
  • 19. Being 'Indigenous' and Being 'Colonized' in Africa: Contrasting Experiences and Their Implications for a Postcolonial Archaeology
  • 20. Deconstructing Archaeologies of African Colonialism: Making and Unmaking the Subaltern
  • Commentary and Afterword
  • 21. Commentary: Subaltern Archaeologies
  • 22. Commentary: The Archaeology of the Colonized and Global Archaeological Theory
  • 23. Afterword: Vantage Points in an Archaeology of Colonialism
  • Index
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