Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and the ChesapeakeArchaeology and the Modern World advances a new controversial theory of historical archaeology. Using new case studies, Martin Hall evaluates the major theoretical traditions in historical archaeology while contributing significantly to the debate. In this study the author places an emphasis on material culture and the recent past to bring to light a picture of an unstable and violent early colonial world in which material culture played a crucial mediating role. |
Contents
Colonial discourse 15 | 17 |
Regimes of order | 43 |
Substantial identities | 70 |
Hidden voices | 97 |
Bodily uncertainties | 125 |
Emergencies of the moment | 151 |
Heart of whiteness | 177 |
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