Approaches to the Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Past and Emergent Perspectives

Hu, Di

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“…A wide array of interactions, often falling between clear-cut war and peace, both among various groups of indigenous peoples and between these and Europeans after 1492, might well account for the archaeological data currently available. Such interactions may further be approached through the theoretical perspectives of, among others, acculturation, transculturation, ethnogenesis or hybridity (Ortiz 1995;Deagan 1998;Tarble de Scaramelli and Scaramelli 2011;Hu 2013;Liebmann 2013). Language undoubtedly played a variety of roles in intergroup mobility and exchange, as well as in collective remembering and social representations of history.…”

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Re-thinking the Migration of Cariban-Speakers from the Middle Orinoco River to North-Central Venezuela (AD 800)

2017

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Moving back in time from the early colonial to the late pre-colonial period we evaluate the hypothesis asserting the migratory movement of Cariban-speaking groups from the Middle Orinoco River area towards north-central Venezuela. The explanation in vogue maintains that the migration followed fluvial routes and occurred between 1350 and 1150 BP (AD 600-800). We examine archaeological, linguistic, ethnohistorical, genetic, and ecological data seeking similarities between the Orinoco emigrants and their northcentral Venezuelan descendants. As a result, we propose an alternative terrestrial/fluvial route and suggest these events occurred between 1150 and 1050 BP (AD 800-900). The route first proceeded upstream along rivers of the central llanos and later followed a natural terrestrial geomorphological corridor into the Lake Valencia Basin. We argue that, while future interdisciplinary (especially archaeo-linguistic and bioarchaeological) research is needed to further assess the results of these analyses, the Orinocan descendants in northcentral Venezuela emerge as one of the most dynamic sociopolitical Cariban-speaking entities in all northeastern South America and the insular Caribbean on the eve of the European Conquest.

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Re-thinking the Migration of Cariban-Speakers from the Middle Orinoco River to North-Central Venezuela (AD 800)

2017

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“…Esta práctica inhumatoria se destaca de los otros tipos de entierros que suelen ser identificados más recurrentemente en la región, como son las inhumaciones primarias y los paquetes funerarios (Cornero 2009;Gaspary 1950;González 1947;Mazza 2015;Scabuzzo et al 2015). En el caso de Cerro Grande de la Isla Los Marinos (Gaspary 1950;Kozameh y Brunás 2011, 2013, se halló un entierro compuesto por los miembros inferiores y un coxal articulado, con presencia de ocre. El mismo muestra ciertas semejanzas con el del individuo 1 de LDLG2 en cuanto a la presencia de tejido blando al momento de la inhumación; la diferencia radica en que aquí no hay reacomodación de elementos como el cráneo y además se aplicó ocre.…”

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“…Es esta nueva concepción la que provee un marco de referencia más adecuado para abordar el estudio de la génesis de Goya-Malabrigo, ya que reconoce el dinamismo de los procesos identitarios, los que a su vez tienen correlatos con la cultura material. Entre los varios procesos que generan etnogénesis (Hu 2013, Stojanowski 2010, Weik 2014 es probable que el que se aproxime más al origen de Goya-Malabrigo sea el de "fusion and aggregation in which diverse people are joined together in a shared ethnic identity" (Voss 2015: 658). En este contexto teórico es que estamos explorando la historia indígena del Delta del Paraná para entender los procesos sociales de larga duración en la región.…”

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Estado actual de las investigaciones en la localidad arqueológica Laguna de los Gansos (Diamante, Entre Ríos)

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Resumen Las investigaciones arqueológicas desarrolladas en los últimos años en el Delta Superior del Paraná buscan ampliar el conocimiento sobre la arqueología regional, entendida como historia indígena de larga duración. En este artículo se presentan los resultados de los análisis arqueofaunísticos, cerámicos, bioarqueológicos, geoarqueológicos y radiocarbónicos realizados en la localidad arqueológica Laguna de los Gansos. En ésta se excavaron dos sitios (LDLG1 y LDLG2) emplazados a lo largo de un albardón alKeywords: Upper Delta of the Paraná River; Late Holocene; Goya-Malabrigo; shallow site.El Delta del Paraná es uno de los deltas más grandes de América del Sur, con una extensión de 15.000 km 2 . Se encuentra entre los 32˚y 34˚ 30' de Lat. S, en la porción terminal de la cuenca del río homónimo. Es un ecosistema *CONICET, División Arqueología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. E-mails: mbonomo@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar, karitosilva@gmail.com, laurabastourre@yahoo.com.ar, magustina_rvr@hotmail.com, clarascabuzzo@hotmail.com, eapolinaire@gmail.com **CONICET, INCUAPA, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Olavarría, Argentina. División Arqueología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. E-mail: gpolitis@museo.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar ****CONICET, División Mineralogía y Petrología,Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. E-mail: carolacl2004@yahoo.com muy productivo y particular ya que a pesar de estar en una latitud de clima templado, contiene una fauna y una flora con marcados elementos subtropicales. Esta área fue una de las primeras en ser investigadas arqueológicamente

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“…Ethnic identity as defined by Weber is a belief in group affinity based on perceived ancestry, physical type, or custom or, of particular interest here, "memories of colonization and migration" (3). Although concepts of ethnicity carry some genealogical component (4), ethnic identity is historically and culturally contingent, and the focus here will be on groups that maintain self-ascribed corporate social identities within larger state political structures.…”

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“…Ethnogenesis is a process of transformative social change happening in place and in the moment. In frontier ethnogenesis, actors of diverse histories and backgrounds take advantage of an "institutional vacuum" to cast aside old distinctions, legal strictures, and rules of multiethnicity, to form new ethnic identities (19) and create intentional diachronic change (3). Ethnogenesis is reinvention, responding to interests and imaginations of the political moment by selecting, rejecting, and recombining elements from a range of traditions, creating new identities and meanings.…”

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Multiethnicity, pluralism, and migration in the south central Andes: An alternate path to state expansion

Goldstein

2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The south central Andes is known as a region of enduring multiethnic diversity, yet it is also the cradle of one the South America’s first successful expansive-state societies. Social structures that encouraged the maintenance of separate identities among coexistent ethnic groups may explain this apparent contradiction. Although the early expansion of the Tiwanaku state (A.D. 600–1000) is often interpreted according to a centralized model derived from Old World precedents, recent archaeological research suggests a reappraisal of the socio-political organization of Tiwanaku civilization, both for the diversity of social entities within its core region and for the multiple agencies behind its wider program of agropastoral colonization. Tiwanaku’s sociopolitical pluralism in both its homeland and colonies tempers some of archaeology’s global assumptions about the predominant role of centralized institutions in archaic states.

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Approaches to the Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Past and Emergent Perspectives

Cited by 52 publications

References 53 publications

Re-thinking the Migration of Cariban-Speakers from the Middle Orinoco River to North-Central Venezuela (AD 800)

Re-thinking the Migration of Cariban-Speakers from the Middle Orinoco River to North-Central Venezuela (AD 800)

Estado actual de las investigaciones en la localidad arqueológica Laguna de los Gansos (Diamante, Entre Ríos)

Multiethnicity, pluralism, and migration in the south central Andes: An alternate path to state expansion

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