| Description |
1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Series |
One World Archaeology Ser |
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One World Archaeology Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Subaltern and 'Postcolonial Discourse' -- Relations of Inequality -- Alternative Constructions -- Subjugated Knowledge -- Liberating the Past: Invention and Appropriation -- Essentialism and the Poetics of Meaning -- Insurrections, Re-Evaluations and the 'Western' Focus -- Notes -- References -- Part 1: The Representation of Ethnicity -- Chapter 1: Ethnicity and Representation -- References |
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Chapter 2: Racial Representations and Power in the Dependent Development of the United States South -- Illegitimate Anthropology and Hegemony -- The Farmers' Alliance and Postreconstruction Dependent Development -- The Black Patch War and the Power of Racial Representations -- The Social Construction of the Past -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3: Sexual Politics and the Mediation of Class, Gender and Race in Former Slave Plantation Societies: The Case of Haiti -- Women's Empowerment in Haiti as Counter-Power -- Haitian Sex/Gender System and Practices of Sexual Politics |
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Gender Division of Labour as Legacy of Plantation System -- Social Relations and Mediation of Sexuality -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Representation and Power: Blacks in Colombia -- Iberian Social Structures -- Discrimination and the Ideology of Blanqueamiento -- Race Mixture and the Ideology of Lo Mestizo -- Lo Mestizo, Blanqueamiento and the Black Minority -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: From Eden to Limbo: The Construction of Indigenism in Brazil -- The Good, The Bad and the Dead -- The Edenic Discourse -- Innocence Found |
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Nativism and Nationalism -- From Chateaubriand to Sting -- The Civilizing Discourse -- Innocence Lost -- Olivegreen Garb and Drab Redtape -- Out of Eden and Back Again -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6: Literacy and Power in Colonial Latin America -- Alphabetic Literacy -- Form: Orality, Literacy, Practice -- Contents: Legal Documents and Social Transformation -- Printing and the Transformation of Visual Images -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part 2: The Social Construction of Antiquity |
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Chapter 7: The Construction of Antiquity and the Egalitarian Principle: Social Constructions of the Past in the Present -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8: The Image of Ancient Greece as a Tool for Colonialism and European Hegemony -- Two Models for the Origins of Ancient Greece -- Models of Greek History and Anthropology -- Note -- References -- Chapter 9: The Politics of Identity in Archaeology -- Identity and Categories of the Person -- Archaeology and Nationalism -- Archaeologists and Development -- Archaeology and the Postmodern -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter 10: Gender Division of Labour in the Construction of Archaeological Knowledge in the United States |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gilliam, Angela
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| ISBN |
9781134679980 |
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113467998X |
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