Editorial Introduction

Abstract

Developing holistic accounts of indigenous peoples’ lifeways in colonial intercultural settings requires data that provide insights into patterns of landscape use and variations in social, economic, and cultural practices away from nodes of colonial activity. However, the mobile settlement patterns of some indigenous peoples mean that the data necessary for such investigations can be rare. In western Cape York Peninsula of northeastern Australia, culturally modified trees (CMTs) associated with the collection of wild honey or “sugarbag” provide opportunities to investigate indigenous patterns of landscape use and processes of economic change within colonial settings. Here we use CMT data to suggest that increased engagement with invader-settlers resulted in intensification of indigenous wild food production. This study exemplifies the complexity of socioeconomic shifts that accompanied European colonization worldwide, and illustrates how landscape-level data can provide information on the broader histories of indigenous peoples within colonial settings.     

Editorial Introduction

Abstract

The recovery of artifacts by sieving provides an essential means of standardizing excavated archaeological data. A simple but robust sieving apparatus is described here, which offers safety, efficiency, and reliability in use. The sieve frame is assembled largely from standard components, and only simple fabrication is required for the various parts. The apparatus has been successfully tested through many seasons of fieldwork, and at sites from Palaeolithic caves to urban post-medieval excavations.     

Editorial Introduction

Meillassoux, Claude. Alide Dasnois, translator. The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 421 pp. including notes, references, glossary, and index. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

McGlynn, Frank and Seymour Drescher, eds. The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. viii + 333 pp. including selected bibliography and index. $44.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.     

Editorial Introduction 35(4)

O'Brien, Jay and William Roseberry, eds. Golden Ages, Dark Ages: Imagining the Past in Anthropology and History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. x + 288 pp. including references and index. $35.00 cloth.

Gallant, Thomas W. Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece: Reconstructing the Rural Domestic Economy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. xvi + 267 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50 cloth.

Abrahams, Ray. A Place of Their Own: Family Farming in Eastern Finland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xi + 205 pp. including photographs, charts, bibliography, and index. $59.95 cloth.     

Editorial Introduction 35(3)

Sherzer, Joel. Kuna Ways of Speaking: An Ethnographic Perspective. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. xii + 260 pp. including bibliography and guide to pronunciation. $22.50 cloth.     

Editorial Introduction 38(3): The Partnership of Agency

Birx, H. James. Theories of Evolution. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1984. xiv + 417 pp. including photographs, bibliography, and index. $39.50 cloth.

Brooks, John Langdon. Just Before the Origin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xii + 284 pp. including maps, sketches, bibliography, and index. $30.00 cloth.     

Editorial Introduction 40(4): Farewell to Miraculous Regionalisms

Binford, Lewis R. Working at Archaeology. New York: Academic Press, 1983. xix + 463 pp. including references and index. $29.50 cloth.