Archaeologies of Cultural Contact

At the Interface
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-969394-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

Archaeologies of Cultural Contact undertakes an exploration of cultural transfer, with a particular focus on the combination and modification of both material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact. From globalization and displacement to cultural legitimization and identity politics, the modern world is characterised by, and articulated through, dynamics of contact and transfer. This book recognises that creolization, ethnogenesis, hybridity, and syncretism are analytical concepts and social processes, relevant not only to the postcolonial contexts of the twentieth century but also to wide-ranging instances where contact is made between cultural groups. Indeed, in representing the re-working of pre-existing cultural elements, they were crucial and ever-present features of the human past.

Ranging in their analytical frame, scale, and geographical and temporal location, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the diverse understandings that can be gained from explorations into the material remains of past contact, exposing and overcoming various limitations of competing models of cultural change. They permit insights into not only cultural change and difference but also the processes of appropriation, resistance, redefinition, and incorporation. Together, the contributions articulate the perspectives that concern practices in relations to people, places, and things, and note how power dynamics mediate social interactions and sustain and constrain forms of cultural contact. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in archaeology as well those from cognate disciplines, particularly anthropology and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clack, Timothy

Brittain, Marcus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Archaeologies of Cultural Contact: An Introduction

- Dealing with Difference

- 1: Nicole Boivin: The Domestication of Difference: Globalisation, Hybridity, and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective

- 2: Lara Mallen and David Pearce: Nodes of Interaction: Changing Rock Paintings in the Eastern Cape Mountains of South Africa

- 3: Rosemary A. Joyce and Russell N. Sheptak: Becoming One or Many: Material Mediation of Difference in Honduras

- 4: Timothy Clack: Other than Human Hybridity?

- 5: Brad Gravina, Francesco d'Errico, and François Bachellerie: Disentangling Neanderthal-Modern Human Interactions in Western Europe: A Heuristic Odyssey

- Conflict, Power, and Belief

- 6: Gilly Carr: The Biographies of Resistant Material Culture in Occupied Landscapes: The Channel Islands and World War II

- 7: Karen Ann Hutchins-Keim and Mary C. Beaudry: Unblended America: Contesting Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century New England

- 8: Audrey Horning: 'Such was the End of Their Feast': Violence, Intimacy, and Mimetic Practice in Early Modern Ireland

- 9: Mats Roslund: Tacit Knowing of Thralls: Style Negotiation among the Unfree in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Sweden

- 10: Pedro Funari and Aline de Carvalho: Cultural Interaction at Palmares: An Archaeology of South American Maroons

- 11: Andrew Petersen: Creole Identity and Syncretism in the Archaeology of Islam

- 12: Jay B. Haviser: Syncretism and Cognition: African and European Religious and Aesthetic Expressions in the Caribbean

- Concluding Thoughts

- 13: Jeb Card: Observations of a Diverse Discussion on Power and Diversity

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy Clack is Chingiz Gutseriev Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK. In addition to cultural contact, his current research concerns heritage and armed conflict, environmental change as a driver of violence, and landscapes and identities. He is Senior Editor Cultural Heritage of the journal Cogent - Arts & Humanities.

Marcus Brittain is a Senior Project Officer at Cambridge Archaeological Unit and Member of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests include pioneer communities of the later prehistoric and later historical periods, the social value of archaeology, and archaeological methods and theory, primarily related to the UK, its overseas territories, and various parts of Africa.