Introduction: Re-imagining Colonial, Pasts, Influencing Colonial Futures
Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: [From initial paragraph] Twenty years ago, the Columbian quincentenary inspired\narchaeologists to initiate conversations and debates about\ncolonialism that extended well beyond Columbus specifically and\nmodern European expansion in general. These conversations were\nparticularly poignant and fraught among archaeologists in the\nAmericas. Not only did they touch upon the raw nerve of the\nnewly passed Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation\nAct (NAGPRA), they also brought attention to the gaping\nontological and epistemological divides in our discipline over\ntemporality and subjectivity. In the years that followed, we\nturned more attention to the question of colonialism and have\nfound not one but many processes and historical outcomes and\nfound not two categories of people involved (colonizer and\ncolonized) but a vast plurality of variously gendered,\nracialized, aged, and occupied peoples of a multitude of faiths,\ndesires, associations, and constraints.
Institution: University of Leicester
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2588382705