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An Archaeology of Colonial Identity: Power and Material Culture in the Dwars Valley, South Africa

By Gavin Lucas

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2006
ISBN
0306485389, 9780306485381, 0306485397, 9780306485398
ASIN
B000PC0WCO
LCC
DT2400.D89 L83 2004
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13263323 bytes)
Series
Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology
Edition
1st
Pages
230\230
Topic
History
Time added
2011-01-24 12:34:20

Description

This book examines how colonial identities were constructed in the Cape Colony of South Africa since its establishment in the 17th century up to the 20th century. It is an explicitly archaeological approach but which also draws more widely on documentary material to examine how different people in the colony – from settler to slave – constructed identities through material culture. The book explores three key groups: The Dutch East India Company, the free settlers and the slaves, through a number of archaeological sites and contexts. With the archaeological evidence, the book examines how these different groups were enmeshed within racial, sexual, and class ideologies in the broader context of capitalism and colonialism, and draws extensively on current social theory, in particular post-colonialism, feminism and Marxism. This book is aimed primarily at archaeologists, but will also attract historians and those interested in cultural theory and material culture studies. Specifically, historical archaeologists and students of historical archaeology will be the primary readership and buyers.

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