Anne Clarke / Robin Torrence (eds.)

The Archaeology of Difference

Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania
Herausgeber: Clarke, Anne; Torrence, Robin

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Produktbeschreibung

Using case studies from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia this volume presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement in the recent historical past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780415117661
• ISBN-10: 0415117666
• Artikelnr.: 21502840

Autorenporträt

Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke are respectively Australian Research Council Senior and Postdoctoral Fellows at the Australian Museum and the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 Negotiating difference: practice makes theory for contemporary
archaeology in Oceania 2 'Round, black and lustrous': a view of encounters
with difference in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia 3
Reconstructing 'traditional' Kanak society in New Caledonia: the role of
archaeology in the study of European contact 4 Post-contact landscapes of
change in Hauraki, New Zealand 5 Just another trader? An archaeological
perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea 6
Time, tradition and transformation: the negotiation of cross[1]cultural
engagements on Groote Eylandt, northern Australia 7 Guns or barter?
Indigenous exchange networks and the mediation of conflict in post-contact
western Arnhem Land 8 Signs of life on a barbarous frontier: intercultural
encounters in North Australia 9 'Barter...immediately commenced to the
satisfaction of both parties': cross-cultural exchange at Port Jackson,
1788-1828 10 The colonial impact? Contact archaeology and indigenous sites
in southern New South Wales 11 Keeping the land alive: changing social
contexts of landscape and rock art production 12 Researching the past: oral
history and archaeology at Swan Reach 13 Resistance, creolization or
optimal foraging at Killalpaninna Mission, South Australia