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- Frontiers of Colonialism
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University Press of Florida
summary
Featuring case studies of prehistoric and historic sites from Mesoamerica, China, the Philippines, the Pacific, Egypt, and elsewhere, Frontiers of Colonialism makes the surprising claim that colonialism can and should be compared across radically different time periods and locations.
This volume challenges archaeologists to rethink the two major dichotomies of European versus non-European and prehistoric versus historic colonialism, which can be limiting, self-imposed boundaries. By bringing together contributors working in different regions and time periods, this volume examines the variability in colonial administrative strategies, local forms of resistance to cultural assimilation, hybridized cultural traditions, and other cross-cultural interactions within a global, comparative framework. Taken together these essays argue that crossing these frontiers of study will give anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians more power to recognize and explain the highly varied local impacts of colonialism.
Table of Contents
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- List of Figures
- p. vii
- List of Tables
- pp. ix-x
- List of Maps
- pp. xi-xii
- Part I. Local Adaptations
- pp. 27-30
- Part III. Rethinking Categories
- pp. 257-260
- 13. Conclusions
- pp. 352-356
- List of Contributors
- pp. 357-362
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813052809
MARC Record
OCLC
989726253
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2017-06-17
Language
English
Open Access
No