Both sides of the frontier: The ‘contact’ archaeology of villages on Mabuyag, western Torres Strait

Wright, Duncan; Ricardi, Pamela

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.028

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“…The prevalence of Aboriginal trading routes following the "Dreaming Paths," and their uses by explorers during colonial times have been presented (Dale 2010). Interactions between Torres Strait Islanders with Europeans, Japanese, and Pacific Islanders have also been illustrated through excavations at Mabuyang mission (Wright and Ricardi 2015). On Moreton Island, investigations into stone outcrops have shown how these places are perceived by Ngugi people as protected areas with a special role in exchange systems (Ross and Campbell 2003).…”

Section: Historical Archaeology Of Colonial Spaces In Queenslandmentioning

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Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific

Tiapa

2024

JWSR

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Between the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, Australia and the islands of the southwestern Pacific were the setting of a wide context of encounters between Europeans and Indigenous peoples, in regions that could be perceived as disconnected at a first glance. However, it was part of a wider project of colonization that overlapped on a not less wide set of Indigenous networks of interconnection. Such a colonial project had landscape modification as a main common goal, added to projects of ethnic and cultural separation and segregation. This article suggests an approach to cultural seascapes as an approach to power relations between European colonizers and Indigenous people in this region. I suggest that this level of analysis allows to connect realities that could be perceived as disparate, but which were coherent with global projects of imposition of colonial identities according to a dominant global matrix of power. I aim to highlight the value of local spaces of interconnection as expressions of wider realities, approachable throughout the analysis of cultural seascapes as mobile spaces of power relations.

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Section: Historical Archaeology Of Colonial Spaces In Queenslandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific

Tiapa

2024

JWSR

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“…Works by several authors (including Lightfoot's in 1995, and Lightfoot et al, 1998) have considered both types of dynamics, trying to increase awareness of the fact that societies are not only made of changes but also of continuities (e.g. Silliman, 2005, 2009; Rodríguez-Alegría, 2008, 2014; Ferris 2009; Mitchell & Scheiber, 2010; Hernández, 2012; Stahl, 2012; González-Ruibal, 2013, 2014; Panich, 2013; Wright & Ricardi 2014; Flexner et al, 2015).…”

Section: Archaeology and The Idea Of Changementioning

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Modern Colonialism, Eurocentrism and Historical Archaeology: Some Engendered Thoughts

Subías

Gonzalo

2017

Eur. j. archaeol

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In this article, we would like to share some thoughts related to the values and principles implemented by archaeologists when bringing 'the other' into focus. We situate our reflections within the archaeology of modern colonialism, and revisit some aspects related to one of the most vibrant issues in historical archaeology: Eurocentrism. It is our understanding that 'de-Eurocentring' the discipline not only requires introducing the disenfranchised as new agents, but also questioning the most profound logics by which narratives of the past have been written. We focus on the idea of history as change, and on the notion of social continuity from a feminist standpoint. We have noticed that certain accounts of colonial situations, even those with the opposite intention, may project the prevailing Western male way of being while trying to explain past social and personal dynamics, thus blurring ontological diversity and unwittingly reinforcing the Eurocentrism we are trying to avoid.

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“…While the antiquity of the stone arrangements is unknown, incorporation of European objects points to continued use into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The theme of occupational continuities into the colonial era is the focus of Wright and Ricardi's (2015) paper on the central western island of Mabuyag in Western Torres Strait. Excavation of a range of ancestral village sites reveals European objects indicating continuities in traditional subsistence practices into the nineteenth century.…”

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Multidisciplinary approaches to Australian island pasts: Late Pleistocene to historical perspectives on Australian island use

McNiven

Ulm

2015

Quaternary International

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To mark Michael J. (Mike) Rowland's retirement a symposium was held at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia on 30 August 2013 titled 'A Long Way in a Bark Canoe: A Symposium in Honour of Mike Rowland'. The symposium celebrated Mike's singular contribution to advancing understandings of Australian island colonisation and use. The papers collected here represent the first volume dedicated to Australian island archaeological research and showcase the full range and diversity of contemporary multidisciplinary research approaches. The volume surveys the depth and breadth of Australian island societies, including studies of late Pleistocene island use in northwest Australia, late Holocene deltaic island societies of Papuan lowland rainforests, early-to-midHolocene tropical island use of Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef, and Holocene selective occupation and abandonment of Bass Strait and other Southern Ocean islands.

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Both sides of the frontier: The ‘contact’ archaeology of villages on Mabuyag, western Torres Strait

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific

Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific

Modern Colonialism, Eurocentrism and Historical Archaeology: Some Engendered Thoughts

Multidisciplinary approaches to Australian island pasts: Late Pleistocene to historical perspectives on Australian island use

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