Appropriated pasts; indigenous peoples and the colonial culture of archaeology.0759109060 Appropriated pasts; indigenous peoples The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition, but can be used about any ethnic group who inhabit the geographic region with which they have the earliest historical connection. and the colonial culture of archaeology. McNiven, Ian J. and Lynette Russell. AltaMira Press 2005 317 pages $79.00 Hardcover Archaeology in society series CC100 McNiven and Russell (both Australian indigenous studies, Monash U.) examine the overt, subtle, and insidious ways archeology has been complicit com·plic·it adj. Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship. in appropriating the pasts of indigenous people, using Australia as a base of study and comparing conditions there with those of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Africa, and other regions. They argue that indigenous archeology has been largely, if not entirely colonial, and as such is controlled by negative representational tropes and historical misunderstanding of those same tropes. To support their assertions they describe the colonial culture of archeology, the invention of prehistory prehistory, period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to through progressivism, the misrepresentation misrepresentation In law, any false or misleading expression of fact, usually with the intent to deceive or defraud. It most commonly occurs in insurance and real-estate contracts. False advertising may also constitute misrepresentation. of aboriginal people as "living fossils," the use of migration and diffusion to impose control on the indigenous and of science to reinforce it, and the new means of appropriation, "shared history." They propose methods to develop a decolonized practice. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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