The Archaeology of Difference

The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement in the recent historical past. Using case studies from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia, the contributors all share a concern with tracking the processes of contact between indigenous peoples and outsiders, primarily Europeans, across the varied physical and cultural landscapes of the region. Rock art sites, museum collections, surface sites, stratified shell middens and rock shelters as well as mission sites are used to examine the processes of interaction and negotiation between indigenous people and outsiders. This volume brings to light a new approach to the archaeology of contact. By moving away from acculturation or domination and resistance, and instead concentrating on the processes of interaction and negotiation the contributors attempt to understand how, in the face of introduced diseases, overwhelming and new technologies, deliberate policies of genocide and the enforced loss of traditional lands, indigenous people translated this contact into material practice. Judy Birmingham, University of Sydney, Dr Anne Clarke, Australian National University, Dr Sarah Colley, University of Sydney, Ursula Frederick, Dr. Steven Hemming

ISBN 0415117666   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780415117661 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 699 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Series editor Ucko, Peter J. (University of Southampton), Ucko, Peter J. (University of Southampton), Ucko, Peter Format Hardback   Series title One World Archaeology Publication date 28 Sep 2000   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress GN662.A693   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 994.01   Spine width (mm) 29 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 440

		List of figures
		List of tables
		List of contributors
		Series editors' foreword
		Preface
1		Negotiating difference: practice makes theory for contemporary archaeology in Oceania by Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke		1
2		'Round, black and lustrous': a view of encounters with difference in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia by Paul Rainbird		32
3		Reconstructing 'traditional' Kanak society in New Caledonia: the role of archaeology in the study of European contact by Christophe Sand		51
4		Post-contact landscapes of change in Hauraki, New Zealand by Caroline Phillips		79
5		Just another trader? An archaeological perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea by Robin Torrence		104
6		Time, tradition and transformation: the negotiation of cross-cultural engagements on Groote Eylandt, northern Australia by Anne Clarke		142
7		Guns or barter? Indigenous exchange networks and the mediation of conflict in post-contact western Arnhem Land by Scott Mitchell		182
8		Signs of life on a barbarous frontier: intercultural encounters in North Australia by Deborah Bird Rose		215
9		'Barter ... immediately commenced to the satisfaction of both parties': cross-cultural exchange at Port Jackson, 1788-1828 by Isabel McBryde		238
10		The colonial impact? Contact archaeology and indigenous sites in southern New South Wales by Sarah M. Colley		278
11		Keeping the land alive: changing social contexts of landscape and rock art production by Ursula Frederick		300
12		Researching the past: oral history and archaeology at Swan Reach by Steven Hemming and Vivienne Wood and Richard Hunter		331
13		Resistance, creolization or optimal foraging at Killalpaninna Mission, South Australia by Judy Birmingham		360
		Index		406

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