Between the Longue Durée and the Short Purée POSTCOLONIAL ARCHAEOLOGIES OF INDIGENOUS HISTORY IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA

• Published in: Decolonizing Indigenous Histories p. 113
• Main Author: Stephen W. Silliman
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Arizona Press 01.12.2012
• Subjects: American minorities; American studies; Anthropology; Archaeological paradigms; Archaeology; Behavioral sciences; Cognitive psychology; Colonialism; Cultural history; Ethnic groups; Ethnography; Ethnology; Government; Hegemony; Historical archaeology; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; History of the Americas; Indigenous peoples; Material culture; Memory; Native Americans; North American history; Political science; Political systems; Psychology; Social sciences; United States history
• ISBN: 9780816504084; 0816504083

Archaeologists who study indigenous cultures in the context of European colonialism are frequently caught in a conundrum of temporal scale. How do we represent, render, and interpret Indigenous practices and peoples in ways that not only respect the complexities of the colonial world and their actions therein but also situate their lives in the context of their own unique short- and long-term cultural histories? Capturing this duality has not been easy. Part of the problem is that archaeologists have not fully heeded the call by Lightfoot (1995) to conduct truly multiscalar, diachronic studies of colonialism and Indigenous responses to its