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This volume explores cultural transfer with a focus on the combination and modification of material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact. Chapters demonstrate the diverse understandings that can be gained by exploring the material remains of past contact, exposing and overcoming limitations of competing models of cultural change.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
This volume explores cultural transfer with a focus on the combination and modification of material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact. Chapters demonstrate the diverse understandings that can be gained by exploring the material remains of past contact, exposing and overcoming limitations of competing models of cultural change.
