Archaeologies of placemaking; monuments, memories, and engagement in native North America.

9781598741551

Archaeologies of placemaking; monuments, memories, and engagement in native North America.

Ed. by Patricia E. Rubertone.

Left Coast Press

2008

256 pages

$79.00

Hardcover

One world archaeology series; v.59

E77

Rubertone (anthropology, Brown U.) presents eight papers from a conference dedicated to examining relationships between memory and landscape and tensions between North American colonialist monuments and myths of Indigenous extinction connected to archaeological sites. Topics include Mi'kmaw communities' feelings of ancestral connection to the Paleo-Indian Debert archaeological site of Nova Scotia, Canada; the meaningfulness of the Reeve Ruin and Davis site in Arizona's San Pedro Valley to different Native American groups; the construction of the Coronado State Monument of New Mexico as a place of colonial encounter: the multiple meanings attached to Fort Apache (now the White Mountain Apache Tribe Cultural Center); the naming of the Death Valley National Monument as a colonial assertion of power through the symbolic denial of Native American presence; indigenous landscapes of memory around Plymouth Rock; Narragansett engagement with Rhode Island monuments commemorating the "disappearance" of the Narragansett; and the making and remaking of place at Jamestown.

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