Indigenous Perspectives on Historical Archaeology of Colonialism
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2017
Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era. Postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. In this session, we focus on comparative indigenism – a theoretical approach which includes both emic and etic interpretations and compares indigenous cultures around the world. We hope to find common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories. We also wish to explore new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view. We hope to bring together researchers working on indigenous archaeology from all over the world to discuss new ways to
"provincialize" historical archaeology – to emphasize local histories and interpretations over Eurocentric ones
find new multivocal interpretations of colonial histories
understand the role of material culture in transformation of indigenous cultures in colonial contact.
Other Keywords
Colonialism •
Ethnography •
Native American •
Ethnohistory •
Landscape Archaeology •
Indigenous •
Philippines •
Materiality •
Iceland •
Spanish
Temporal Keywords
Medieval, Early Modern •
Contemporary •
Early modern •
14-17 century AD •
Early Colonial (1521-1650) •
19th century to the present •
16th- 17th centuries •
North American French Colonial •
Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Geographic Keywords
North America •
Massachusetts (State / Territory) •
New York (State / Territory) •
New Hampshire (State / Territory) •
Idaho (State / Territory) •
Maine (State / Territory) •
Wisconsin (State / Territory) •
Michigan (State / Territory) •
Washington (State / Territory) •
Minnesota (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-9 of 9)
- Documents (9)
- Colonial Encounters Reflected by the Contemporary Material Culture – Or What Happened When Miss Finland Wore a Sámi Clothing (2017)
- Conquest of the South Sea: The Long-Term Historical Archaeology of the Port of Huatulco, Mexico (2017)
- Finding The Indigenous – A Study Of Locally Made Earthenware In Early Spanish Manila, The Philippines (2017)
- Finishes and Flourishes: Ceramic Encounters at the Edges of Empire in Spanish Colonial Central Mexico (2017)
- Icelanders, Germans and Danes – Triangulating colonial encounters in Iceland during the 15th to 17th centuries (2017)
- Seeking the Indigenous Perspective: Colonial Interactions, Archaeology and Ethnohistory at Fort St. Pierre, 1719-1729, Vicksburg, Mississippi (2017)
- Sámi animal offering rituals in Fennoscandia: Religious change and local responses to colonial contact (2017)
- "Their complaint was that they did not get enough to eat": Landscape of Child Labor at the Blackfeet Boarding School, Montana (2017)
- The ‘Very Stillness of Things’: Object Biographies of Sailcloth and Fishing Net from the Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission (Burgiyana) Colonial Archive, South Australia (2017)