Multi-Directional Colonialism: Approaches to Studying Global Interactions
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)
Colonial settings are marked by cultural exchange in many directions, yet studies of colonialism usually highlight the relationship between motherland and territory with a specific focus on the colonized. In this session, we explore colonial environments as settings for a multiplicity of cross-cultural interactions by presenting research on a range of geographical locations and periods. We aim to discuss the multi-directional nature of these social exchanges, in order to move beyond the static interpretive frame of colonizer and colonized. Participants will consider questions such as how changes in colonial territories rippled back to the motherland; the role of proximate, non-colonized cultures living on the edges of imperial activities; the multi-directional nature of material culture change; and how peoples connected to colonial exchanges developed new notions of heritage and identity. By discussing these themes from disparate eras and locations, we hope to add a new facet to the rich ongoing scholarship on colonial studies, and also demonstrate new modes of approaching the study of culture contact on a global scale.
Other Keywords
Colonialism •
Ceramics •
Empire •
Labor •
Social Identity •
Colonial •
colonial contact •
Frontier •
Inka •
south africa
Geographic Keywords
South America •
East/Southeast Asia •
AFRICA •
Europe •
West Asia •
North America - Mid-Atlantic
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- Documents (8)
- 3D Visualization and Soundscape Applications that Speak to Community Organizational Change on Luzon, Philippines during Spanish Contact (2016)
- Colonizing the Colonial: Viewing Influence through the Lens of Coarse Earthenware at the Dutch East India Company Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (2016)
- Exotic or Familiar? : Exploring the Multi-directionality of Cultural Influence of Asian Porcelain in the late 17th- early 19th-century Dutch sites in Banten, Indonesia (2016)
- Inka Frontier Political Economy: The Kallawayas and Yampara (2016)
- Lagging, Uneven Hellenism in the Hellenistic East (2016)
- Landscape, Labor, and the Production of Difference in Colonial Peru: Indios and Negros in the Zaña Valley, 16th through 18th centuries C.E. (2016)
- The Old World a Bridge to the New: Daniel Gookin Jr.’s Intercolonial and Transatlantic Connections in the Seventeenth Century. (2016)
- "Reverse Colonialism": The Multi-Directional Nature of Cultural Exchange in the 18th-Century Spanish Atlantic (2016)