Rethinking Colonialism: Comparative Archaeological Approaches - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813060702 ISBN 13: 9780813060705

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2015

Synopsis

Historical archeology studies once relied upon a binary view of colonialism: colonizers and colonized, the colonial period and the postcolonial period. The international contributors to this volume scrutinize imperialism and expansionism through an alternative lens that looks beyond simple dualities to explore the variously gendered, racialized, and occupied peoples of a multitude of faiths, desires, associations, and constraints. Colonialism is not a phase in the chronology of a people but a continuous phenomenon that spans the Old and New Worlds. Most important, the contributors argue that its impacts - and, in some instances, even the same processes set in place by the likes of Columbus - are ongoing.

Inciting a critical study of the lasting consequences of ancient and modern colonialism on descendant communities, this wideranging volume includes essays on Roman Britain, slavery in Brazil, and contemporary Native Americans. In its efforts to define the scope of colonialism and the comparability of its features, this collection challenges the field to go beyond familiar geographical and historical boundaries and draws attention to unfolding colonialfutures.

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About the Author

Craig N. Cipolla, lecturer in historical archaeology and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK is the author of Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World.

Katherine Howlett Hayes, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, USA is the author of Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island’s Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651–1884.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813060702
• ISBN 13: 9780813060705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Cipolla Craig N., Hayes Katherine Howlett