Multisited Research on Colonowares and the Paradox of Globalization

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Charles R. Cobb See all items with this value

Chester B. DePratter See all items with this value

Date

2012

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264652034_Multisited_Research_on_Colonowares_and_the_Paradox_of_Globalization

Bibliographic Citation

Cobb, Charles R. and Chester B. DePratter. 2012. Multisited Research on Colonowares and the Paradox of Globalization. American Anthropologist 114(3):446-461.

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• Use of multisited in reference to colonoware studies to move beyond archaeology of identity, as is often the case when colonoware is examined.
o A research focus on ethnicity of colonoware artifact makers is limiting and perhaps misses the point in the study of colonial or multicultural settings—the emphasis should be on the larger issues of power and struggle (pg. 448-449)
• Cobb and DePratter (2012:449): “Counter to this binary paradigm, we argue that these distinctive ceramics were an outgrowth of colonial rivalries involving French, Spanish, and English empires, and interactions among African, Native American, and Euro-American peoples swept up in those rivalries. By expanding the geographical and historical frame of reference for colonoware, the vexing typological ambiguities surrounding this material culture become important elements for understanding the heterogeneity of the colonial experience.”
• Cobb and DePratter (2012:456): “Colonoware is not about fixed identity, and it is not solely about Africans, or Native Americans, or Native Americans living alongside Africans. It is more about “shared histories”: the complex entanglement of the lives of indigenous peoples with one another and with colonizers (Harrison 2004; also Jordan 2009).”