ISBN:
9780203298817
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (446 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
One World Archaeology
Parallel Title:
Print version Clarke, Anne Archaeology of Difference : Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania
DDC:
305.8009
Keywords:
Ethnoarchaeology -- Oceania
;
Ethnology -- Oceania
;
Oceania -- Antiquities
;
Pacific Islanders -- Cultural assimilation
;
Pacific Islanders -- First contact with Europeans
;
Pacific Islanders -- Material culture
Abstract:
The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interaction and negotiation by using a wide variety of case studies which take a crucially indigenous rather than colonial standpoint
Abstract:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Negotiating difference: practice makes theory for contemporary archaeology in Oceania -- INTRODUCTION -- OCEANIA -- THE ROLE OF PREHISTORY -- NEGOTIATION IS CONTEXT SPECIFIC -- CONTACT, ENCOUNTER OR ENGAGEMENT? -- Encounters -- Engagements -- NEGOTIATED OUTCOMES -- Barter -- Material culture -- Landscape -- Intensification -- Continuity and change -- SUMMARY -- IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- 2 'Round, black and lustrous': a view of encounters with difference in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia -- INTRODUCTION -- ENCOUNTERS WITH DIFFERENCE AS LONG-TERM HISTORY -- CHUUK LAGOON -- The archaeology of encounter -- ON REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 3 Reconstructing 'traditional' Kanak society in New Caledonia: the role of archaeology in the study of European contact -- INTRODUCTION -- A MODEL FOR TRADITIONAL KANAK SOCIETY -- THE ORTHODOX POPULATION MODEL AND ITS LIMITS -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL CHALLENGE TO THE ORTHODOX MODEL -- INTENSIFICATION OF SUBSISTENCE: SOME EXAMPLES -- SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- ORAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL MODEL FOR INDIGENOUS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- CHANGE AND STABILITY -- DEMOGRAPHY AND DISEASE -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 4 Post-contact landscapes of change in Hauraki, New Zealand -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BACKGROUND -- LANDSCAPES OF CHANGE -- The early contact phase, 1800-1822 -- The hiatus, 1822-1830 -- The later contact phase, 1830-1850 -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 Just another trader? An archaeological perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND BARTER
Abstract:
BARTER AS NEGOTIATION -- Barter means equality -- ADMIRALTY ISLANDS SPEARS AND DAGGERS -- Historical context -- Methodology -- A HISTORY OF PRODUCTION -- Changes in European tastes -- Role of spears and daggers in Admiralty Islands society -- Analysis of efficiency -- DOMINANCE AND THE ARTEFACT TRADE -- EXCHANGE OVER THE VERY LONG TERM -- ARCHAEOLOGY, MATERIAL CULTURE AND NEGOTIATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 6 Time, tradition and transformation: the negotiation of cross-cultural engagements on Groote Eylandt, northern Australia -- INTRODUCTION -- LANDSCAPES OF CONTACT -- LANDSCAPES OF TIME -- CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION IS A CONTINUING PROCESS -- NEGOTIATION -- COMMUNITY-BASED ARCHAEOLOGY AS A NEGOTIATED ARCHAEOLOGY -- LANDSCAPES OF NEGOTIATION -- Archaeological fieldwork and cultural constraints -- Different landscapes -- MODELS OF CONTACT -- TIME, TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION -- The archaeology of the remembered past -- The archaeology of the 'Golden Age' -- The archaeology of 'arakbawiya': the prehistoric settlement of Groote Eylandt -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 7 Guns or barter? Indigenous exchange networks and the mediation of conflict in postcontact western Arnhem Land -- ROLE OF TRADE GOODS -- FOREIGN CONTACT IN ARNHEM LAND -- REGIONAL EXCHANGE ON THE COBOURG PENINSULA -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR REGIONAL EXCHANGE -- Pre-contact stone artefact assemblages -- Post-contact stone artefact assemblages -- Comparing assemblages -- CONFLICTING MODELS FOR EXCHANGE -- CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE POST-CONTACT PERIOD -- Introduced disease and perceptions of sorcery -- Gender imbalance -- DIRECT HISTORIC ANALOGY AND INTENSIFICATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 8 Signs of life on a barbarous frontier: intercultural encounters in North Australia -- INTRODUCTION -- 'THE BAD AND BEAUTIFUL DALY'
Abstract:
SETTLEMENT AND SOCIALITY -- TAMING THE CROSS -- THE END -- SPIRITUAL TRACKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 'Barter…immediately commenced to the satisfaction of both parties': cross-cultural exchange at Port Jackson, 1788-1828 -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTEXTS FOR EXCHANGE -- Roles of exchange in Aboriginal societies -- Historical: colonial settlement and exchange -- 'BARTER…IMMEDIATELY COMMENCED' -- 'WE LOVE THEIR THINGS SO MUCH' -- 'ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES' -- '…A COMMERCE OF THIS SORT' -- 'A CONSTANT SYMBOL OF FRIENDSHIP' -- 'THEY EXCHANGED THEIR FISH FOR BRITISH ALCOHOL' -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 10 The colonial impact? Contact archaeology and indigenous sites in southern New South Wales -- INTRODUCTION -- RESEARCH BIASES IN AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGY -- SOUTH COAST CONTACT HISTORY -- ARCHAEOLOGY OF SETTLER-INDIGENOUS CONTACT -- GREENGLADE ROCKSHELTER -- Subsistence data -- Artefactual evidence -- Site chronology -- Intensity of site use -- CONTACT AND CONTINUITY -- WIDER IMPLICATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 11 Keeping the land alive: changing social contexts of landscape and rock art production -- INTRODUCTION -- THE LANDSCAPE -- The study area: Watarrka National Park -- The physical geography -- An Aboriginal geography -- A European geography -- ROCK ART ANALYSIS -- The pre-contact assemblage -- The contact assemblage -- Comparing the pre-contact and contact components -- DISCUSSION -- Rock art as indigenous agency and response -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 12 Researching the past: oral history and archaeology at Swan Reach -- INTRODUCTION -- KNOWING/CONSTRUCTING THE PAST -- SWAN REACH -- History since invasion -- The archaeological investigations -- The old mission house (SR1) -- On the banks of the river (SR2) -- Wurley location (SR5)
Abstract:
DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 13 Resistance, creolization or optimal foraging at Killalpaninna Mission, South Australia -- COMPETING THEORIES OF CONTACT -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT -- DOMINATION ACCORDING TO MISSION RECORDS -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPECTATIONS AND METHODOLOGY -- SPATIAL PATTERNS -- RESISTANCE OR INNOVATIVE FORAGER EXPLOITATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Index
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