Rethinking colonial pasts through archaeology / edited by Neal Ferris, Rodney Harrison, and Michael V. Wilcox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Ferris, Neal, 1960- editor.

Harrison, Rodney, 1974- editor.

Wilcox, Michael V. (Michael Vincent), 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples.

Colonization--Social aspects.

Colonization.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 511 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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.

Contents:

Part I Ambiguous Definitions and Discordances

1 Shared Histories: Rethinking 'Colonized' and 'Colonizer' in the Archaeology of Colonialism / Rodney Harrison Harrison, Rodney 37

2 Archaeologies of Indigenous Survivance and Residence: Navigating Colonial and Scholarly Dualities / Stephen W. Silliman Silliman, Stephen W. 57

3 Native-lived Colonialism and the Agency of Life Projects: A View from the Northwest Coast / Jeff Oliver Oliver, Jeff 76

4 Pruning Colonialism: Vantage Point, Local Political Economy, and Cultural Entanglement in the Archaeology of Post-1415 Indigenous Peoples / Kurt A. Jordan Jordan, Kurt A. 103

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 / M. Doves Cruz Cruz, M. Doves 123

6 Indigenous Archaeology and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Social Mobility and Boundary Maintenance in Colonial Contexts / Michael V. Wilcox Wilcox, Michael V. 150

7 Hiding in Plain Sight: Engineered Colonial Landscapes and Indigenous Reinvention on the New Mexican Frontier / Jun Sunseri Sunseri, Jun 173

8 Frontier Forts, Ambiguity, and Manifest Destiny: The Changing Role of Fort Lane in the Cultural Landscape of the Oregon Territory, 1853-1929 / Mark Tveskov Tveskov, Mark, Amy Cohen Cohen, Amy 191

9 Imperial Anxiety and the Dissolution of Colonial Space and Practice at Fort Moore, South Carolina / Charles R. Cobb Cobb, Charles R., Stephanie Sapp Sapp, Stephanie 212

10 Intimacy and Distance: Life on the Australian Aboriginal Mission / Jane Lydon Lydon, Jane 232

11 Casting Identity: Sumptuous Action and Colonized Bodies in Seventeenth-century New England / Diana DiPaolo Loren Loren, Diana DiPaolo 251

12 Persistent Pots, Durable Kettles, and Colonialist Discourse: Aboriginal Pottery Production in French Colonial Basse Louisiane and the pays d'en haut / Rob Mann Mann, Rob 268

Part III Displacement, Hybridity, and Colonizing the Colonial

13 Challenging Colonial Equations? The Gaelic Experience in Early Modern Ireland / Audrey Horning Horning, Audrey 293

14 The Process of Hybridization among the Labrador Métis / Matthew A. Beaudoin Beaudoin, Matthew A. 315

15 Archaeology and the 'Tensions of Empire' / James A. Delle Delle, James A. 333

16 Material Practices and Colonial Chronologies in Dominica, Eastern Caribbean / Mark W. Hauser Hauser, Mark W., Stephan Lenik Lenik, Stephan 348

Part IV Contested Pasts and Contemporary Implications

17 Being Iroquoian, Being Iroquois: A Thousand-year Heritage of Becoming / Neal Ferris Ferris, Neal 371

18 Archaeology Taken to Court: Unravelling the Epistemology of Cultural Tradition in the Context of Aboriginal Title Cases / Andrew Martindale Martindale, Andrew 397

19 Being 'Indigenous' and Being 'Colonized' in Africa: Contrasting Experiences and Their Implications for a Postcolonial Archaeology / Paul J. Lane Lane, Paul J. 423

20 Deconstructing Archaeologies of African Colonialism: Making and Unmaking the Subaltern / Peter R. Schmidt Schmidt, Peter R. 445

Commentary and Afterword

21 Commentary: Subaltern Archaeologies / Peter van Dommelen Dommelen, Peter van 469

22 Commentary: The Archaeology of the Colonized and Global Archaeological Theory / Chris Gosden Gosden, Chris 476

23 Afterword: Vantage Points in an Archaeology of Colonialism / Ann B. Stahl Stahl, Ann B. 483.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780199696697

0199696691

OCLC:

898331505