The archaeology of colonialism / edited by Claire L. Lyons and John K. Papadopoulos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyons, Claire L., 1955-

Papadopoulos, John K., 1958-

Series:

Issues & debates

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Social archaeology.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Colonies--History.

Colonies.

History.

Colonization--Social aspects--History.

Colonization.

Colonization--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, [2002]

Summary:

This series explores open questions at the intersection of art history and the humanities.

Eleven scholars demonstrate how artifacts are not only the residue of social interaction but also instrumental in shaping identities and communities.

Contents:

Colonies without colonialism : a trade diaspora model of fourth millennium B.C. Mesopotamian enclaves in Anatolia / Gil Stein

Greeks in Iberia : colonialism without colonization / Adolfo Dominguez

Indigenous responses to colonial encounters on the West African coast : Hueda and Dahomey from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries / Kenneth Kelly

Ambiguous matters : colonialism and local identities in Punic Sardinia / Peter van Dommelen

A colonial middle ground : Greek, Etruscan, and local elites in the Bay of Naples / Irad Malkin

Colonizing cloth : interpreting the material culture of nineteenth-century Oceania / Nicholas Thomas

Forms of Andean colonial towns, free will, and marriage / Tom Cummins

Material culture and the roots of colonial society at the South African Cape of Good Hope / Stacey Jordan and Carmel Schrire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0892366354

OCLC:

48493723