Encounters (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Per Cornell.

Looking at the colonial, the intricacy of the associated encounters cannot be avoided. While violence and oppression almost always play a major role, there are also intricate processes, in which the results are manifold and far beyond the intent of the colonizer. In this paper, a number of examples will be addressed, ranging from Late Mediterranean Iron Age contexts to European Early Modern colonial projects in the Americas. Questions of temporality and general time are of major importance;...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynette Russell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Seacountries of Northern Australia and Island Neighbours", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From Norse sagas to Polynesian origin tales, to Bugis songs of Macassan voyages to Marege narratives of mapping, exploring, discovering, settling, trading, and returning are told across many maritime cultures. A close reading of these sources shows even the most mythic of stories can contain surprisingly specific...