An Africa-Informed View of Postcolonial Archaeologies

The heterogeneity of the African colonial experience (e.g., Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Omani, Ethiopian) defies easy generalization about the trajectories of postcolonial experiences and thought. One point of commonality that transcends postcolonial hetero...

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Published inHandbook of Postcolonial Archaeology pp. 215 - 226
Main Authors Schmidt, Peter R., Munene, Karega
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2010
Edition1
Subjects
Michael Green
Informant Welfare
African Archaeology
Levi Jordan Plantation
NAGPRA
Barren
Imperial Archaeological Commission
Contemporary Historical Representations
Postcolonial Archaeology
Contemporary Society
South ASIA
African Colonial Experience
Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republics
East African Littoral
Archaeological Narrative
Public Interest Anthropology
ASIA
Crucible Steel
Confer
Indigenous Archaeology
North American Indigenous Peoples
Violating
Colonial Library
Van Dommelen
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Summary:The heterogeneity of the African colonial experience (e.g., Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Omani, Ethiopian) defies easy generalization about the trajectories of postcolonial experiences and thought. One point of commonality that transcends postcolonial heterogeneity, however, is that African and Africanist archaeologists, unlike many postcolonial theorists, do not depend exclusively on written texts by colonial and postcolonial writers to assess how we might examine and understand colonial legacies that persist in past and contemporary historical representations.
ISBN:9781598741827
1598741837
9781598741834
1598741829
DOI:10.4324/9781315427690-17