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Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present
Chris Gosden
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Paperback. A comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. Series: Topics in Contemporary Archaeology. Num Pages: 204 pages, 22 b/w illus. 5 tables. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330.
Archaeology is the only discipline that allows us to take a long-term view across all forms of colonialism, from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the Aztecs, to the colonies of modern European states. In this innovative study, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. Defining colonialism as, crucially, a relationship with material culture, destabilising of older values, changing both incomers and natives, Gosden attempts to understand the history of power, how it is exercised through material culture and how this understanding can generate new notions of interaction and ... Read more
Archaeology is the only discipline that allows us to take a long-term view across all forms of colonialism, from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the Aztecs, to the colonies of modern European states. In this innovative study, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. Defining colonialism as, crucially, a relationship with material culture, destabilising of older values, changing both incomers and natives, Gosden attempts to understand the history of power, how it is exercised through material culture and how this understanding can generate new notions of interaction and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Series
Topics in Contemporary Archaeology
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521787956
SKU
V9780521787956
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About Chris Gosden
Chris Gosden is Lecturer and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
Reviews for Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present
'Archaeology and Colonialism is a highly readable reassessment of colonialism … Archaeology and Colonialism is an enjoyable and useful book. Through its concentration on power relations manifest in material culture, it offers a new and stimulating way to approach cultural contact.' Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of Cambridge ' … a brave and interesting attempt at a new synthesis …' Ancient West ... Read more