Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology (Visiting Scholar Conference Volumes) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809334097 ISBN 13: 9780809334094

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 2015

Synopsis

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into con­tact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes oc­curred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick, seeks to define the role of culture contact in human history, to identify issues in the study of culture contact in archaeology, and to provide a critical overview of the major theoretical approaches to the study of culture and contact.

Contributors consider three forms of culture contact―colonization, cultural en­tanglement, and symmetrical exchange. Part I provides a critical overview of theo­retical approaches to the study of culture contact, while Part II contains eleven case studies of specific contact situations and their relationships to the archaeological record. Studies in Culture Contact pro­vides an extensive review of the history of culture contact in anthropological stud­ies and develops a broad framework for studying culture contact’s role, moving beyond a simple formulation of contact and change to a more complex under­standing of the amalgam of change and continuity in contact situations.

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About the Author

James G. Cusick is curator of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida, USA and author of The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809334097
• ISBN 13: 9780809334094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Cusick James G.