The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania

by Clarke,Anne; Clarke,Anne

• ISBN13: 9780415117661
• ISBN10: 0415117666
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Arhcaeology of Differencepresents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement in the recent historical past. Using case studies from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia, the contributors all share a concern with tracking the processes of contact between indigenous peoples and outsiders, primarily Europeans, across the varied physical and cultural landscapes of the region.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	xi
List of contributors	xiii
Series editors' foreword	xv
Preface	xvii
Negotiating difference: practice makes theory for contemporary archaeology in Oceania	1	(31)
Robin Torrence
Anne Clarke
`Round, black and lustrous': a view of encounters with difference in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia	32	(19)
Paul Rainbird
Reconstructing `traditional' Kanak society in New Caledonia: the role of archaeology in the study of European contact	51	(28)
Christophe Sand
Post-contact landscapes of change in Hauraki, New Zealand	79	(25)
Caroline Phillips
Just another trader? An archaeological perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea	104	(38)
Robin Torrence
Time, tradition and transformation: the negotiation of cross-cultural engagements on Groote Eylandt, northern Australia	142	(40)
Anne Clarke
Guns or barter? Indigenous exchange networks and the mediation of conflict in post-contact western Arnhem Land	182	(33)
Scott Mitchell
Signs of life on a barbarous frontier: intercultural encounters in North Australia	215	(23)
Deborah Bird Rose
`Barter...immediately commenced to the satisfaction of both parties': cross-cultural exchange at Port Jackson, 1788-1828	238	(40)
Isabel McBryde
The colonial impact? Contact archaeology and indigenous sites in southern New South Wales	278	(22)
Sarah M. Colley
Keeping the land alive: changing social contexts of landscape and rock art production	300	(31)
Ursula Frederick
Researching the past: oral history and archaeology at Swan Reach	331	(29)
Steven Hemming
Vivienne Wood
Richard Hunter
Resistance, creolization or optimal foraging at Killalpaninna Mission, South Australia	360	(46)
Judy Birmingham
Index	406