The Political Ecology of Plantations from the Ground Up

Oas, Sarah; Hauser, Mark W.

doi:10.1080/14614103.2017.1347997

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“…For example, Battle-Baptiste (2017) maps plantations into three distinct loci of experience: the "Captive African Domestic Sphere," the "Labor Sphere," and the "Wilderness," where the wilderness becomes a site of refuge and interaction. In Dominica, in the eastern Caribbean, archaeologists excavated trash deposits from regimented plantation housing, which reveal (a) commercial and social interaction between enslaved laborers with island Maroons and the Indigenous Kalinago that led to political action on at least two occasions (Hauser 2021); (b) landscape modifications and species selection in the gardens of enslaved laborers in the wilderness sphere that managed the predicaments of commercial agriculture such as soil loss (Oas & Hauser 2017); and (c) the farming, provisioning, and fishing practices of the enslaved in which the hinterland they negotiated became abiotic as well as a social refuge for species quickly endangered on neighboring islands (Wallman & Oas 2020). Such refuge assemblages did not end with the legal abolishment of slavery (Harris 2019).…”

Section: Refuge Assemblagesmentioning

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The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Hauser

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Discussions of boundaries have enjoyed a renaissance in anthropological archaeology of recent years, especially as conversations surrounding forced migration and border walls look toward the material record for clarification about what borders are and what they do. Since 1995, when the Annual Review of Anthropology last addressed a similar issue, numerous methodological and conceptual changes in the field have led to a large proliferation in the literature. A brief Google Scholar search of the words “archaeology,” “boundaries,” and “work” between 1995 and the present produces 365,000 results and makes one point clear: Archaeologists have had a lot to say about the topic. By framing this review around the work of boundaries, I signal two trends in the field of archaeology with conceptual and methodological implications. The first trend is the increased centrality of materiality as a theoretical register as new questions relating to object agency, human/nonhuman boundaries, and new models of environmental archaeology have populated the literature. In such climates it is important to focus on boundaries as a kind of assemblage of actants that takes on agencies beyond notions of territory. Associated border, crossing, transnational, and refuge assemblages are discussed. The second trend is the increased attention to boundary work in archaeology. Whether it is in the form of postcolonial/decolonizing archaeologies, new materialities/symmetrical archaeologies, or contemporary archaeologies, there has been increased pushback against attempts to define anthropological archaeology along processual lines. In this article I review one thread of that literature, critical cartographies, and how they have used the archaeological record to develop radical renditions of political space where boundaries are involved. I focus on scholarship surrounding the relatively recent past (ca. 1200 CE to the present). Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 51 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Hauser

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“…; Gilmore ; Kelly and Wallman ; Marshall ; Moreau de Saint‐Méry ; Otto ; Pulsipher ; Quitmeyer ; Reitz, Gibbs, and Rathburn ; Schlotterbeck ; Scott ; Sichler ; Tomich ; Wilkie and Farnsworth ; Yentsch ). Yet, even with the modern variability in domestic economies, procurement and subsistence practices utilized during slavery continued through the post‐emancipation era as the basis of domestic economies for postcolonial Caribbean societies and some regions in the American South (Armstrong ; DeLoughrey ; Fallope ; Moore ; Oas and Hauser ; Tomich ; Wallman ; Zierden and Reitz ).…”

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Mainstreaming African Diasporic Foodways When Academia Is Not Enough

Brunache

2019

Transforming Anthropology

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More than a decade after Britain's bicentennial commemoration of the 1807 Abolition Act to end the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Scotland still struggles to reconcile her colonial past. Unlike in North America, historical archaeology centered on the history and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is still highly marginalized in British academia. Furthermore, Scotland's roles in slave-based economies is only recently being considered a relevant area of historical studies. This paper emerges from my evolving perspective as a Black American scholar and resident in the United Kingdom, as I strive to create intellectual spaces in and outside of academia. Through civic engagement, I use my work on African diasporic foodways in the French Caribbean to link with a similar material basis of resistance in the British Caribbean and engage British audiences whose connections to Atlantic slavery are yet to be fully recognized. [Atlantic slavery, transatlantic slave trade, Scotland, history, foodways]

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Entangled Threads: Creolization of Plants and Landscape

Sorhaindo,

Cuffy

2023

Creole Cultures, Vol. 1

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The Political Ecology of Plantations from the Ground Up

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Mainstreaming African Diasporic Foodways When Academia Is Not Enough

Entangled Threads: Creolization of Plants and Landscape

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