Beyond Ornamentation: New Approaches to Adornment and Colonialism
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Beyond Ornamentation: New Approaches to Adornment and Colonialism," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Current approaches to adornment use notions of dress, the body, and performance to unravel how complex intersections of identity (including race, gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality) are shaped by and shape power relations in colonial encounters. Objects such as beads or buttons materialize social identities in everyday practices of adornment. This session embraces this perspective while simultaneously thinking beyond ornamentation to the many other entanglements of these objects, including globalization, commoditization, (over)consumption, craft production and industrialization, indigenous sovereignty / political agency, and colonial dispossession. How do intimate practices of bodily dress, social identification, and interpersonal politics impact and structure the historical and theoretical contours of colonialism, writ large? By demonstrating the importance of adornment while also critiquing its limits, the diverse theoretical and methodological approaches presented here place the study of personal adornment into conversation with many other themes and topics in historical archaeology.
Other Keywords
Beads •
Colonialism •
Wampum •
Adornment •
shell beads •
Native American •
Basketry •
Glass Beads •
Collections •
Statistics
Temporal Keywords
17th Century •
20th Century •
early colonial •
19th Century •
18th Century •
Seventeenth Century •
Early modern •
1750-1900 •
1500-1650 CE
Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) •
Delaware (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-10 of 10)
- Documents (10)
- Domesticating the Button: Household Consumption Patterns of Copper-Alloy Buttons In the 18th-Century Overhill Cherokee Towns (2020)
- East Meets West: Indigenous Use of Indo-Pacific Cowries on the Great Plains (2020)
- Embodying Survivance: Western Apache Production Practices in the Reservation Era (2020)
- Glass Beads and Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: A Social Network Approach to Exploring Identity in the Colonial Southeast (2020)
- The Leedstown (Virginia) Bead Cache: A Contextual Approach (2020)
- Peake, Wampum, or Sewant?: An Analysis of Shell Bead Terminology in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake (2020)
- A Political Economy of Adornment: Indigenous Mass Consumption and Euro-American Shell Bead Factories in 19th Century New Jersey (2020)
- Power in Numbers: Reconstructing Provenience Through an Investigation of 283,000 Beads (2020)
- Wampum’s Pre-Colonial Origins: An Indigenous Story (2020)
- Wood and Wampum: Transformative Expressions of Indigenous Power (2020)