The Archaeology of Colonialism

by Voss, Barbara L.; Casella, Eleanor Conlin

• ISBN13: 9781107401266
• ISBN10: 1107401267
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-31
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This volume examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies. While archaeological studies of the historic past have explored the dynamics of European colonialism, such work has largely ignored broader issues of sexuality, embodiment, commemoration, reproduction and sensuality. Recently, however, scholars have begun to recognize these issues as essential components of colonization and imperialism. This book explores a variety of case studies, revealing the multifaceted intersections of colonialism and sexuality. Incorporating work that ranges from Phoenician diasporic communities of the eighth century to Britain's nineteenth-century Australian penal colonies to the contemporary Maroon community of Brazil, this volume changes the way we understand the relationship between sexuality and colonial history.

Author Biography

Barbara L. Voss is Associate Professor of Anthropology at .Stanford University where she is also affiliated with the Stanford Archaeology Center, Feminist Studies, and the Center for Comparative Study on Race and Ethnicity. She is the author or editor of several books, including, most recently, The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis. Race, Sexuality, and Identity in Colonial San Francisco; The Archaeology of Chinese Immigrant and Chinese American Communities (coedited with Bryn Williams); and Archaeologies of Sexuality (coedited with Robert A. Schmidt). Eleanor Conlin Casella is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Manchester, where she is also affiliated with the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. She has directed archaeological projects in Australia North America, northwest England, and the Scottish Highlands: She is the author or editor of several books, including, most recendy, The Alderley Sandhills Project: An Archaeology of Community Life in (Post)-Industrial England (coauthored with Sarah Croucher), The Archaeology of Institutional Confinement, The Archaeology Plural and Changing Identities (coedited with Chris Fowler), and Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions (coedited with James Symonds).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xiii
List of Contributors	p. xv
Intimate Encounters: An Archaeology of Sexualities within Colonial Worlds	p. 1
Sexual Effects: Postcolonial and Queer Perspectives on the Archaeology of Sexuality and Empire	p. 11
Pleasures and Prohibitions
Little Bastard Felons: Childhood, Affect, and Labour in the Penal Colonies of Nineteenth-Century Australia	p. 31
The Currency of Intimacy: Transformations of the Domestic Sphere on the Late-Nineteenth-Century Diamond Fields	p. 49
"A Concubine Is Still a Slave": Sexual Relations and Omani Colonial Identities in Nineteenth-Century East Africa	p. 67
The Politics of Reproduction, Rituals, and Sex in Punic Eivissa	p. 85
Engaged Bodies
Fear, Desire, and Material Strategies in Colonial Louisiana	p. 105
Death and Sex: Procreation in the Wake of Fatal Epidemics within Indigenous Communities	p. 122
Effects of Empire: Gendered Transformations on the Orinoco Frontier	p. 138
In-Between People in Colonial Honduras: Reworking Sexualities at Ticamaya	p. 156
The Scale of the Intimate: Imperial Policies and Sexual Practices in San Francisco	p. 173
Commemorations
Life and Death in Ancient Colonies: Domesticity, Material Culture, and Sexual Politics in the Western Phoenician World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries bce	p. 185
Reading Gladiators' Epitaphs and Rethinking Violence and Masculinity in the Roman Empire	p. 214
Monuments and Sexual Politics in New England Indian Country	p. 232
Gender Relations in a Maroon Community, Palmares, Brazil	p. 252
Showing and Telling
Sexualizing Space: The Colonial Leer and the Genealogy of Storyville	p. 271
Showing, Telling, Looking: Intimate Encounters in the Making of South African Archaeology	p. 290
Obstinate Things	p. 303
Conclusion
Sexuality and Materiality: The Challenge of Method	p. 323
Index	p. 341
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