Ideology, Colonialism and Domestic Architecture
Author(s): Katharine J. Watson
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Joseph Brittan, Charles Fooks, Dr Burrell Parkerson and John Cracroft Wilson built four very different houses in 1850s Christchurch, New Zealand. These men were part of the first wave of European settlers of the new city, and their houses differed not just from each other, but also from the majority of houses built by the first European settlers. Most new settlers built either simple saltbox cottages or houses that reflected the prevailing ideology of the organisation behind the settlement of Christchurch. Drawing on the techniques of buildings archaeology, this paper examines why these men built such different houses, and considers the role the houses played in the lives of their builders. It looks, too, at how these men used their houses to position themselves in a new society, particularly in relation to the predominant ideology of this time and place.
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Ideology, Colonialism and Domestic Architecture. Katharine J. Watson. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457154)
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Keywords
General
Colonialism
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Houses
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Ideology
Geographic Keywords
New Zealand
Temporal Keywords
1850-1900
Spatial Coverage
min long: -176.843; min lat: -50.852 ; max long: 178.558; max lat: -34.415 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 905