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The archaeology of colonialism : intimate encounters and sexual effects /

"This volume examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Voss, Barbara L., 1967-, Casella, Eleanor Conlin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Intimate encounters: an archaeology of sexualities within colonial worlds / Eleanor Conlin Casella and Barbara L. Voss
  • 2. Sexual effects: postcolonial and queer perspectives on the archaeology of sexuality and empire / Barbara L. Voss
  • Section I. Pleasures and Prohibitions: 3. Little bastard felons: childhood, affect, and labour in the penal colonies of nineteenth-century / Australia Eleanor Conlin Casella; 4. The currency of intimacy: transformations of the domestic sphere on the late-nineteenth-century diamond fields / Lindsay Weiss; 5. "A concubine is still a slave": sexual relations and Omani colonial identities in nineteenth-century East Africa / Sarah K. Croucher; 6. The politics of reproduction: rituals and sex in Punic Eivissa / Mireia López-Bertran
  • Section II. Engaged Bodies: 7. Fear, desire, and material strategies in colonial Louisiana / Diana DiPaolo Loren; 8. Death and sex: procreation in the wake of fatal epidemics within indigenous communities / Kathleen L. Hull; 9. Effects of empire: gendered transformations on the Orinoco frontier / Kay Tarble de Scaramelli; 10. In-between people in colonial Honduras: reworking sexualities at Ticamaya / Russell N. Sheptak, Kira Blaisdell-Sloan, and Rosemary A. Joyce; 11. The scale of the intimate: imperial policies and sexual practices in San Francisco / Barbara L. Voss
  • Section III. Commemorations: 12. Life and death in ancient colonies: domesticity, material culture, and sexual politics in the western Phoenician world, eighth to sixth century BCE / Ana Delgado and Meritxell Ferrer; 13. Reading gladiators' epitaphs and rethinking violence and masculinity in the Roman Empire / Renata S. Garraffoni; 14. Monuments and sexual politics in New England Indian country / Patricia E. Rubertone; 15. Gender relations in a Maroon community, Palmares, Brazil / Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Aline Vieira de Carvalho
  • Section IV. Showing and Telling: 16. Sexualizing space: the colonial leer and the genealogy of Storyville / Shannon Lee Dawdy; 17. Showing, telling, looking: intimate encounters in the making of South African archaeology / Nick Shepherd; 18. Obstinate things / Mary Weismantel
  • 19. Conclusion: sexuality and materiality: the challenge of method / Martin Hall.