Archaeological Survey of Colonial Dominica

Summary

The Archaeological Survey of Colonial Dominica centered household production, provisioning, and consumption in the relationship between colonies and metropoles. This paper introduces this session, which develops an approach that considers the political economy of colonial empires at the human scale. As a site of imperial contention between Britain and France, Dominica’s material record can help examine the similarities and differences in how land, labor and commerce was imagined in the homeland and practiced on the frontier. Because slaves were not only producers of export goods but consumers of manufactured items, it is possible to examine the ways in which household consumption was regulated by functional demands, competition or social solidarity.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Colonial Consequences: Results from the Archaeological Survey of Colonial Dominica

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Abstract Id(s): 17012