The archaeology of difference [[electronic resource] ] : negotiating cross-cultural engagements in Oceania / / edited by Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777385503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Routledge, 2000
• ISBN: 0-89757-070-7; 1-134-82841-1; 1-138-00681-5; 1-282-37314-5; 9786612373145; 0-203-29881-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 428 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: One world archaeology ; ; 38
• Altri autori (Persone): TorrenceRobin; ClarkeAnne <1959->
• Disciplina: 305.800995
• Soggetti: Ethnology - Oceania; Pacific Islanders - First contact with other peoples; Pacific Islanders - Material culture; Pacific Islanders - Cultural assimilation; Ethnoarchaeology - Oceania; Oceania Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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-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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interaction and negotiation by using a wide variety of case studies which take a crucially indigenous rather than colonial standpoint. -- Publisher.