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Culture Contact (culture + contact)
Selected AbstractsFrom Casta to Californio: Social Identity and the Archaeology of Culture ContactAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2005BARBARA L. VOSS In culture contact archaeology, studies of social identities generally focus on the colonized,colonizer dichotomy as the fundamental axis of identification. This emphasis can, however, mask social diversity within colonial or indigenous populations, and it also fails to account for the ways that the division between colonizer and colonized is constructed through the practices of colonization. Through the archaeology of material culture, foodways, and architecture, I examine changing ethnic, racial, and gendered identities among colonists at El Presidio de San Francisco, a Spanish-colonial military settlement. Archaeological data suggest that military settlers were engaged in a double material strategy to consolidate a shared colonial identity, one that minimized differences among colonists and simultaneously heightened distinctions between colonists and local indigenous peoples. [source] Eating between the Lines: Mississippian Migration and Stable Carbon Isotope Variation in Fort Ancient PopulationsAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2009Robert A. Cook ABSTRACT Appreciating variation along the edges of traditional archaeological Culture Historical boundaries requires close consideration of social contexts associated with culture contact. We focus on dietary variation as a function of these concerns through a case study of Fort Ancient populations who, on average, consumed lower quantities of maize than their Mississippian neighbors as determined by stable carbon isotope ratios of bone collagen. However, this dichotomy is not as rigid as initially thought, with some Fort Ancient burials producing stable carbon isotope ratios similar to Mississippian cases. Detailed investigation of internal variation of carbon isotopes for human burials at the SunWatch site provides evidence that contact included small-scale Mississippian migrations to Fort Ancient sites. The main conclusion is that variation in diet and archaeological context can be a useful approach for examining prehistoric migration. [source] Toward a Museum Culture in Ghana: Processes and ChallengesMUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2008Kwame Amoah Labi Abstract This article discusses how the Institute of African Studies mounted a community-based exhibition drawing on indigenous knowledge and narratives of culture contact and influence, with the hope that this, and similar exhibitions in Ghana, would help to develop a museum culture in local communities. The article also addresses the methods and procedures used in developing the content of the local exhibition, including consultations with leaders of Sekondi and neighboring areas. [source] From Reflection to Refraction: Rethinking Paradigms of Cultural Interaction and Identity in Peru and MexicoBULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 4 2002Melisa Moore This article explores the construction and reworking of paradigms of culture contact and identity by social scientists and cultural critics in response to contradictory sociocultural experiences of modernity in Peru and Mexico. It seeks to do so in the context of calls made by the Peruvian critic Antonio Cornejo Polar for greater historicism and critical thinking about these, and the concern that this appeal has since generated in the field of Latin American Cultural Studies. Focusing first on the postcolonial, ideologically driven model of ,mestizaje', the article then traces continuities and discontinuities between it and latter,day thinking about cultural pluralism. [source] | ||||||||||