Rethinking Colonialism

Craig N. Cipolla is curator of North American archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum and member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World. Katherine Howlett Hayes is associate professor of anthropology and affiliate faculty in American Indian studies and heritage studies and public history at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651–1884.

An intriguing compilation of case studies in the comparative archaeology of colonialism, distinguishing it from other volumes in its consideration of the consequences of colonialism on the contemporary present and future. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice "Successfully contributes to the understanding of colonialism and forcefully argues for a comparative approach to its study. . . . Provides case studies that stimulate thoughtful consideration of colonialism and its impacts in both the past and present."—Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology

• ContentList of Figures viiList of Maps ixPreface and Acknowledgments xi1. Introduction: Re-Imagining Colonial Pasts, Influencing Colonial Futures 1Katherine H. Hayes and Craig N. CipollaPart I Colonial Structures Past and Present2. Colonial Consumption and Community Preservation: From Trade Beads to Taffeta Skirts 17Craig N. Cipolla3. Globalizing Poverty: The Materiality of Colonial Inequality and Marginalization 40Paul R. Mullins and Timo Ylimaunu4. Indigeneity and Diaspora: Colonialism and the Classification of Displacement 54Katherine H. Hayes5. Cultural Colonization without Colonial Settlements: A Case Study in Early Iron Age Temperate Europe 76Peter S. Wells6. Colonial Encounters, Time, and Social Innovation 99Per Cornell7. Rethinking Colonialism: Indigenous Innovation and Colonial Inevitability 121Stephen A. Mrozowski, D. Rae Gould, and Heather Law Pezzarossi8. Materializations of Puritan Ideology at Seventeenth-Century Harvard College 143Christina J. Hodge, Diana D. Loren, and Patricia Capone9. Working with Descendant Communities in the Study of Roman Britain: Fragments of an Ethnographic Project Design 161Richard Hingley10. The Archaeology of Slavery Resistance in Ancient and Modern Times: An Initial Outlook from a Brazilian Perspective 190Lúcio Menezes Ferreira and Pedro Paulo A. FunariPart II Looking Back, Moving Forward: ComparativeColonialism and the Future11. Comparative Colonialism and Indigenous Archaeology: Exploring the Intersections 213Stephen W. Silliman12. Comparative Colonialism: Scales of Analysis and Contemporary Resonances 234Audrey HorningList of Contributors 247Index 249