Historical archaeology studies once relied upon a binary view of colonialism: colonizers and colonized, the colonial period and the postcolonial period. The contributors to this volume scrutinize imperialism and expansionism through an alternative lens that rejects simple dualities and explores the variously gendered, racialized, and occupied peoples of a multitude of faiths, desires, associations, and constraints. Colonialism is not a phase in the chronology of a people but a continuous phenomenon that spans the Old and New Worlds. Most important, the contributors argue that its impacts—and, in some instances, even the same processes set in place by the likes of Columbus—are ongoing.
Inciting a critical examination of the lasting consequences of ancient and modern colonialism on descendant communities, this wide-ranging volume includes essays on Roman Britain, slavery in Brazil, and contemporary Native Americans. In its efforts to define the scope of colonialism and the comparability of its features, this collection challenges the field to go beyond familiar geographical and historical boundaries and draws attention to unfolding colonial futures.
Content
List of Figures vii
List of Maps ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
1. Introduction: Re-Imagining Colonial Pasts, Influencing Colonial Futures 1
Katherine H. Hayes and Craig N. Cipolla
Part I Colonial Structures Past and Present
2. Colonial Consumption and Community Preservation: From Trade Beads to Taffeta Skirts 17
Craig N. Cipolla
3. Globalizing Poverty: The Materiality of Colonial Inequality and Marginalization 40
Paul R. Mullins and Timo Ylimaunu
4. Indigeneity and Diaspora: Colonialism and the Classification of Displacement 54
Katherine H. Hayes
5. Cultural Colonization without Colonial Settlements: A Case Study in Early Iron Age Temperate Europe 76
Peter S. Wells
6. Colonial Encounters, Time, and Social Innovation 99
Per Cornell
7. Rethinking Colonialism: Indigenous Innovation and Colonial Inevitability 121
Stephen A. Mrozowski, D. Rae Gould, and Heather Law Pezzarossi
8. Materializations of Puritan Ideology at Seventeenth-Century Harvard College 143
Christina J. Hodge, Diana D. Loren, and Patricia Capone
9. Working with Descendant Communities in the Study of Roman Britain: Fragments of an Ethnographic Project Design 161
Richard Hingley
10. The Archaeology of Slavery Resistance in Ancient and Modern Times: An Initial Outlook from a Brazilian Perspective 190
Lúcio Menezes Ferreira and Pedro Paulo A. Funari
Part II Looking Back, Moving Forward: Comparative
Colonialism and the Future
11. Comparative Colonialism and Indigenous Archaeology: Exploring the Intersections 213
Stephen W. Silliman
12. Comparative Colonialism: Scales of Analysis and Contemporary Resonances 234
Audrey Horning
List of Contributors 247
Index 249
