“Either, or, Neither Nor”:Resisting the Production of Gender, Race and Class Dichotomies in the Pre-Colonial Period

Russell, Lynette

doi:10.1007/0-306-48695-4_3

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“…Identities can be gendered, ethnic, racial, regional, philosophical, political, they can be based on sexual preference, football team affiliation, age or status. Each of these labels enable the group members to create an identity that marks them out as unique and a group member at the same time (see Russell 2005). These categories cross cut each other and allow the individual to be a member of more than one group at the same time.…”

Section: Connections and Diaspora: Homelands In Settler Landscapesmentioning

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Remembering Places Never Visited: Connections and Context in Imagined and Imaginary Landscapes

Russell

2012

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Despite the vast research on landscape and landscape archaeology conducted over the past decade little attention has been given to the role of memory and imagination in people's engagement with their ancestral homelands, "country" or other meaningful landscape. An analysis of a range of case studies, both historical and contemporary reveal that people often feel great attachment to and desire to engage with lands that they may have never visited or have little empirical evidence for attachment. Further complicating this are those examples where a "heritage" landscape based on ancient homelands is constructed on the diasporic lands of their daily lives. Understanding these imaginary landscapes offers the opportunity to take a fresh look at the relationship between identity and landscape.

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Section: Connections and Diaspora: Homelands In Settler Landscapesmentioning

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Remembering Places Never Visited: Connections and Context in Imagined and Imaginary Landscapes

Russell

2012

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“…Further examples can be found in modern-day computerization, when people became computerized by buying computers or not but simply resisting doing so when encountering the new technical world, or in the modernization process in general, which is based on the tensions of modernity: people became modern by progressively resisting the old way of living and inventing new utensils and machines for their old homes (see, e.g., Søland 2000, Thomas 2004, Russell 2005, Loren and Beaudry 2006, Rúnarsdóttir 2006, Prescott and Glørstad 2011. Similarly, the Christian transformation brought about new knowledge that was coloured by tensions between old and new habits taking place through mutual and provocative communication among all those involved in its development.…”

Section: The Tension Between the Old And The Newmentioning

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Becoming Christian: A Matter of Everyday Resistance and Negotiation

Kristjánsdóttir¹

2015

Norwegian Archaeological Review

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The diverse appearances of church buildings, iconography and altered burial practices have commonly been used to exemplify the expansion of Christianity in early medieval Europe. Less emphasis has been placed on how the common European dealt with the Christian transformation in daily life, perhaps because of the tendency in research to distinguish ritual actions from secular. To become Christian did not necessarily entail greater religiousness or deeper religious devotion but centred rather on how people synchronized their everyday lives, both religious and secular, in accordance with Christian doctrine and the laws imposed by the Roman Church. However, social transformations do not emerge exclusively from political or administrative institutions, such as the Church or other ruling authority; they also emerge interactively, through the general public, who are equally capable of exercising power by taking part in societal discourse. With reference to examples from early medieval Iceland, this article argues for the application of Foucault's theory of power relations and everyday resistance to research on the adoption of Christianity, beyond time and space.

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“…(Stoler 2006). Meskell (2001, p. 185) has followed Foucault (1980) in critiquing "the rigidity of western taxonomies" and some archaeologists have further critiqued the either/or oppositional thinking underlying the cultural construction of dichotomies (Russell 2005;Spencer-Wood 1995). Some historical archaeologists have researched how societies have changed and created new culturally constructed categories of identity used to classify people, the permeability of categorical boundaries, and abilities to cross boundaries (Insoll 2005;Jamieson 2005;Russell 2005;Spencer-Wood 1992, 1994bVoss 2008).…”

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A Feminist Framework for Analyzing Powered Cultural Landscapes in Historical Archaeology

Spencer‐Wood

2010

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Powered cultural landscapes" is my term for landscapes that express social power dynamics. Historical archaeologists have not adopted or developed adequate definitions or theorizations of the terms "power" or "landscape." Since these terms are predominantly considered separately in the literature, this article first briefly defines power and develops a heterarchical theory of power. Then cultural landscapes are defined and categories of human-landscape interactions are constructed. The bulk of the article applies my heterarchical paradigm to analyze the social power dynamics in selected examples of historical archaeological research concerned with each category of human-landscape interaction.

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“Either, or, Neither Nor”:Resisting the Production of Gender, Race and Class Dichotomies in the Pre-Colonial Period

Cited by 14 publications

References 23 publications

Remembering Places Never Visited: Connections and Context in Imagined and Imaginary Landscapes

Remembering Places Never Visited: Connections and Context in Imagined and Imaginary Landscapes

Becoming Christian: A Matter of Everyday Resistance and Negotiation

A Feminist Framework for Analyzing Powered Cultural Landscapes in Historical Archaeology

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