Making Alternative Histories

by Schmidt, Peter R.; Patterson, Thomas C.

• ISBN13: 9780933452930
• ISBN10: 0933452934
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research/Sar pr

Summary

After working in Third World contexts for more than a century, many archaeologists from the West have yet to hear and understand the voices of their colleagues in non-Western cultural settings. In Making Alternative Histories, eleven scholars from Africa, India, Latin America, North America, and Europe debate and discuss how to respond to the erasures of local histories by colonialism, neocolonial influences, and the practice of archaeology and history as we know them today in North America and much of the Western world. Making Alternative Histories presents a profound challenge to traditional Western modes of scholarship and will be required reading for Western archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: From Constructing to Making Alternative Histories	p. 1
The Theme of the Indigenous in the National Projects of the Hispanic Caribbean	p. 25
The Perception of History and Archaeology in Latin America A Theoretical Approach	p. 47
Archaeology, History, Indigenismo, and the State in Peru and Mexico	p. 69
Confronting Colonialism: The Mahican and Schaghticoke Peoples and Us	p. 87
Using Archaeology to Remake History in Africa	p. 119
Studying African Societies in Cultural Context	p. 149
African History: Past, Present, Future - The Unending Quest for Alternatives	p. 183
Race, Nationalism, and the Afrocentric Past	p. 213
Alternative Histories, Alternative Nations: Nationalism and Modern Historiography in Bengal	p. 229
Alternative Histories: Epistemic Disunity and Political Integrity	p. 255
References	p. 273
Index	p. 309
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