The archaeology of difference : negotiating cross-cultural engagements in Oceania / edited by Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke
- Bib ID:
- 3640607
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- London : Routledge, c2000
- xviii, 418 p. : ill., maps, port. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0415117666
- Series:
- One world archaeology ; 38.
- Summary:
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Collection of studies related to the themes of archaeology as an engagement with Indigenous peoples through interpretation and negotiation of the past; Australian examples include: work on Groote Eylandt; mediating role of local exchange networks on the Cobourg Peninsula, western Arnhem Land, NT; contact history in the Daly River Region, NT; role of exchange in the early Sydney region; prehistoric and historic archaeology of the Greeglade rockshelter, Disaster Bay, NSW; rock art production in the Watarrka National Park, central Australia, NT; value of contact archaeology of Swan Reach, NSW; extension of optimal foraging theory to colonial interactions - Killalpininna Mission, SA.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Ethnology -- Oceania
- Pacific Islanders -- First contact with Europeans
- Pacific Islanders -- Material culture
- Pacific Islanders -- Cultural assimilation
- Ethnoarchaeology -- Oceania
- Archaeology
- Colonisation - Ethical issues
- Archaeology - Theory and criticism
- Ethics - History
- Oceania -- Antiquities
- Groote Eylandt (NT Gulf Islands SD53-07, SD53-08)
- Lake Amadeus map area (South Central NT SG52-04)
- Disaster Bay / Green Cape (NSW Far S Coast SJ55-08)
- Daly River (NT Top End SD52-08)
- Kopperamanna / Killalpaninna (NE SA SH54-01)
- Swan Reach / Gerard (SE SA SI54-10)
- Cobourg Peninsula / Gurig National Park (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
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