The Archaeology of Difference - Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania

The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1 Negotiating difference: practice makes theory for contemporary archaeology in Oceania 2 'Round, black and lustrous': a view of encounters with difference in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia 3 Reconstructing 'traditional' Kanak society in New Caledonia: the role of archaeology in the study of European contact 4 Post-contact landscapes of change in Hauraki, New Zealand 5 Just another trader? An archaeological perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea 6 Time, tradition and transformation: the negotiation of cross[1]cultural engagements on Groote Eylandt, northern Australia 7 Guns or barter? Indigenous exchange networks and the mediation of conflict in post-contact western Arnhem Land 8 Signs of life on a barbarous frontier: intercultural encounters in North Australia 9 'Barter...immediately commenced to the satisfaction of both parties': cross-cultural exchange at Port Jackson, 1788-1828 10 The colonial impact? Contact archaeology and indigenous sites in southern New South Wales 11 Keeping the land alive: changing social contexts of landscape and rock art production 12 Researching the past: oral history and archaeology at Swan Reach 13 Resistance, creolization or optimal foraging at Killalpaninna Mission, South Australia

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke are respectively Australian Research Council Senior and Postdoctoral Fellows at the Australian Museum and the Australian National University.

Zusammenfassung

The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Anne Clarke (Herausgeber), Clarke Anne (Herausgeber), Robin Torrence (Herausgeber), Torrence Robin (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.09.2000
• EAN: 9780415117661
• ISBN: 978-0-415-11766-1
• Seiten: 436
• Gewicht: 680 g
• Serie: One World Archaeology
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Vor- und Frühgeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Archaeology, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Society and culture: general