Scale Locality and the Caribbean Historical Archaeology |
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Authors: | Mark W Hauser |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Africana Studies, University of Notre Dame, 327 O’Shaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA |
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Abstract: | Historical archaeologists have become increasingly concerned with regional analysis focusing on the interconnections between
different archaeological sites in order to develop a better sense of social relations. This development is in part due to
the realization of many years of research and subsequent topical and theoretical syntheses. It also reflects a shifting concern
in research towards fluidity of landscape and translocality (Hicks in World Archaeol 37:373–391, 2005; Lightfoot K (2005). University of California, Berkeley; Orser CE Jr (1996) A historical archaeology of the modern world. Plenum, New York; Wilkie LA, Farnsworth P (2005) Sampling many pots: an archaeology of memory and tradition at a Bahamian Plantation. University Press of Florida, Gainesville).
The Caribbean as a world area highlights the need for broader regional analyses where tensions between local specificities
and global/translocal processes are mediated. These tensions have been explored through discussions of identity, agency, colonialism
and political economy. In this volume we explore the utility of scale of analysis in the framing of colonial landscapes between
the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in the Caribbean. Contributors to this volume have concentrated on the ways in which
scale as a concept is explicitly analyzed or implicitly employed to shape how we as archaeologists focus on topics associated
with the African Diaspora in the Caribbean to draw out narratives of everyday life. |
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Keywords: | Caribbean archaeology Regional analysis Translocality |
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