Archaeologies of Cultural Contact
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 September 2022
- ISBN 9780199693948
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages348 pages
- Size 241x160x24 mm
- Weight 656 g
- Language English 324
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Short description:
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.
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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.
Table of Contents:
Archaeologies of Cultural Contact: An Introduction
Dealing with Difference
The Domestication of Difference: Globalisation, Hybridity, and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective
Nodes of Interaction: Changing Rock Paintings in the Eastern Cape Mountains of South Africa
Becoming One or Many: Material Mediation of Difference in Honduras
Other than Human Hybridity?
Disentangling Neanderthal-Modern Human Interactions in Western Europe: A Heuristic Odyssey
Conflict, Power, and Belief
The Biographies of Resistant Material Culture in Occupied Landscapes: The Channel Islands and World War II
Unblended America: Contesting Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century New England
'Such was the End of Their Feast': Violence, Intimacy, and Mimetic Practice in Early Modern Ireland
Tacit Knowing of Thralls: Style Negotiation among the Unfree in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Sweden
Cultural Interaction at Palmares: An Archaeology of South American Maroons
Creole Identity and Syncretism in the Archaeology of Islam
Syncretism and Cognition: African and European Religious and Aesthetic Expressions in the Caribbean
Concluding Thoughts
Observations of a Diverse Discussion on Power and Diversity
