Seeing Ethnicity?: Parsing Hybridity, Creolization and Ethnogenesis in The Archaeological Record
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2018
Ethnicity has proven a durable concept in archaeologies of identity. As an analytic, it has transformed over time in response to currents in the discipline, as well as to broader sociopolitical contexts. "Seeing" ethnicity in the archaeological record was as critical to early archaeology’s concerns over Social Darwinism and colonialism as it is now in archaeologies of agency and resistance. Concepts such as creolization, hybridity, and ethnogenesis have become synonymous with historical archaeology.
Papers in this session will debate the enduring relevance of theories of ethnicity in archaeology at a site that has been so generative for the topic, the city of New Orleans. What do recent theoretical influences—postcolonial theory, critical race theory, ontology, amongst others— mean for theoretical and pragmatic approaches to an archaeology of ethnicity?
Papers from any region or specialization are welcome, and we especially encourage submissions from archaeologists working across (or against) the "prehistoric"/'historic" divide.
Other Keywords
Ethnicity •
Identity •
Ceramics •
Pottery •
Migration •
Glass Beads •
Age •
Museums •
Compositional Analysis •
Colonialism
Temporal Keywords
19th Century •
Nineteenth Century •
1800-1900 AD •
17th Century •
18th-20th century •
1800-2017 •
protohistory
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 1-8 of 8)
- Documents (8)
- Abolition and the Rise of the Aku: Creating Ethnicity through Colonial Policy on the Gambia River (2018)
- Categorizations of Identity in Settler Colonial Contexts: Unpacking Métis as Mixed in the Archaeological Record (2018)
- Exploring Age in the Chinese Diaspora (2018)
- Getting to Know Your Neighbours: Critically Thinking Through an 19th Cenutry Irish Family in Ontario (2018)
- Haida Perspectives On Authenticity And Ethnicity In Mid-Nineteenth Century Argillite Carving (2018)
- The Politics of Pots: Becoming New Communities in the Historic Northern Rio Grande (2018)
- Technological Knowledge And Migrations Of Ancestral Pueblo Communities Of Practice In The Northern Rio Grande Of New Mexico (2018)
- Tracing Communities and Mapping Exchange Networks of the Great Lakes in the 17th Century (2018)