The archaeology of difference
Subtitle: negotiating cross-cultural engagements in Oceania
By: edited by Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke.
Contributors: Torrence, Robin.; Clarke, Anne, 1959-
Series: One world archaeology -- 38.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000-11-07
Place of publication: London; New York
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Ethnology -- Oceania.; Pacific Islanders -- First contact with Europeans.; Pacific Islanders -- Material culture.; Pacific Islanders -- Cultural assimilation.; Ethnoarchaeology -- Oceania.; Oceania -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Negotiating difference: practice makes theory for contemporary archaeology in Oceania / Robin Torrence, Anne Clarke; title: 'Round, black and lustrous': a view of encounters with difference in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia / Paul Rainbird; title: Reconstructing 'traditional' Kanak society in New Caledonia: the role of archaeology in the study of European contact / Christophe Sand; title: Post-contact landscapes of change in Hauraki, New Zealand / Caroline Phillips; title: Just another trader? An archaeological perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea / Robin Torrence; title: Time, tradition and transformation: the negotiation of cross-cultural engagements on Groote Eylandt, northern Australia / Anne Clark; title: Guns or barter? Indigenous exchange networks and the mediation of conflict in post-contact western Arnhem Land / Scott Mitchell; title: Signs of life on a barbarous frontier: intercultural encounters in North Australia / Deborah Bird Rose; title: 'Barter . . . immediately commenced to the satisfaction of both parties': cross-cultural exchange at Port Jackson, 1788-1828 / Isabel McBryde; title: The colonial impact? Contact archaeology and indigenous sites in southern New South Wales / Sarah M. Colley; title: Keeping the land alive: changing social contexts of landscape and rock art production / Ursula Frederick; title: Researching the past: oral history and archaeology at Swan Reach / Steven Hemming, Vivienne Wood, Richard Hunter; title: Resistance, creolization or optimal foraging at Killalpaninna mission, South Australia / Judy Birmingham.