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.
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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.
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PART 1: AMBIGUOUS DEFINITIONS AND DISCORDANCES; PART 2: COLONIZING AND DECOLONIZING SPACES, PLACES, THINGS, AND IDENTITIES; PART 3: DISPLACEMENT, HYBRIDITY, AND COLONIZING THE COLONIAL; PART 4: CONTESTED PASTS AND CONTEMPORARY IMPLICATIONS; COMMENTARY AND AFTERWORD
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this excellent volume's critical exploration of the nature of archaeological epistemologies should interest many archaeologists and historians.
Chapters range from North America, Australia, and Africa to the Caribbean and Ireland, providing a broad context. Focuses on the archaeology of the lived life of the colonized through European colonialism over the last 600 years. Presents new developments in anthropological and archaeological theory and showcases how these ideas are applied to real world case studies. Considers the contemporary relevance and politics around questions of agency and identity.
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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.
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Chapters range from North America, Australia, and Africa to the Caribbean and Ireland, providing a broad context. Focuses on the archaeology of the lived life of the colonized through European colonialism over the last 600 years. Presents new developments in anthropological and archaeological theory and showcases how these ideas are applied to real world case studies. Considers the contemporary relevance and politics around questions of agency and identity.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199696697
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1048 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
528

Biographical note

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.