The Tale of the Kettle: Odyssey of an Intercultural Object

Turgeon, Laurier

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“…In contrast, reusable resources like beads were displayed in these settings, transmitting sensorial meaning to one's neighbors. The objects incorporated into these practices were determined by local norms, and established "valuable" material classes in social negotiations forming a communal sense of taste (e.g., Galke, 2004;Loren, 2009;Silliman, 2009;Turgeon, 1997). It is important to acknowledge that a material object's own identity or function is situational.…”

Section: Materials Culture and The Theories Of Public Displaymentioning

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Personal Adornment and Expressions of Status: Beads and the Gambia River’s Atlantic Trade

Gijanto

2011

Int J Histor Archaeol

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The presence of glass trade beads at Atlantic trade period sites is often thought to provide limited information for the analyst. Several archaeologists working in West Africa have addressed the difficulty of using beads as chronological markers, let alone using these objects to discern local patterns of demand, preference, or consumption. Overall, few scholars have moved beyond the development of descriptive catalogues to determine what information can be ascertained from bead collections other than chronological data. At Juffure on the Gambia River, bead attributes such as shape, color, and size inform the analyst of how change in the demand for and availability of beads were tied to changing local notions of taste and value.

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Section: Materials Culture and The Theories Of Public Displaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Personal Adornment and Expressions of Status: Beads and the Gambia River’s Atlantic Trade

Gijanto

2011

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Notre intérêt, ici, est contraire : nous entendons explorer les processus et les résultats de la « québécisation » du bungalow, en formulant l'hypothèse d'une double appropriation : d'une part celle, à l'échelle urbaine, d'une vernacularisation rendant spécifique une maison a priori générique, d'autre part celle, à l'échelle de l'usage domestique (nous l'explorerons dans notre second article), qui a fait de la standardisation l'outil d'une diversification à la fois contraire à l'image d'homogénéité des bungalows au Québec et propice à la particularisation culturelle. Dans cette perspective, nous nous situons en aval d'un plus récent courant des études matérielles, signalé par Turgeon (et al, 2003), motivé par une tendance associée à la sémiologie, en quête des mécanismes par lesquels les notions abstraites investissent la matière et de la « valeur produite par l'acte d'appropriation » (Turgeon, 1997). Plus particulièrement, dans le domaine de l'histoire de l'architecture, nous entendons considérer le bungalow -pour paraphraser Focillon -à la fois comme « matière et esprit, forme et contenu » et explorer -pour ce qui nous paraît être une première fois -la figure et le processus de genèse (Morisset, 1999) de cette maison banalisée.…”

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Le bungalow québécois, monument1 vernaculaire

Morisset

Noppen

2004

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Résumé Acteur archétypique du paysage construit, le bungalow, cette maison pavillonnaire construite en milliers d’exemplaires partout autour des villes, a – en dépit de sa standardisation – engendré un paysage particulièrement varié et profondément québécois. Ce premier de deux articles analyse la naissance du bungalow au Canada et le contexte, depuis la Première Guerre mondiale, de son apparition, en vue de jeter des bases à l’exploration de la « québécisation » du bungalow, au travers du phénomène de son succès et de son importante diffusion, des paramètres matériels de son appropriation, du corpus imaginaire de ses représentations et de la réappropriation dont cette antithèse du monument historique peut aujourd’hui paraître victime. En effet, si le bungalow tint sa vaste popularité du large éventail de ses appropriations possibles, sa survie est aujourd’hui mise en cause par le principe de sa construction standardisée même, sous la pression foncière sur l’immédiate périphérie urbaine qu’il a jadis investie. Support mémoriel paradoxal de notre XXe siècle, l’omniprésent bungalow, unique et pluriel à la fois, entame-t-il le chant du cygne?

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“…Although an object may be utilized and appropriated by different social groups throughout its life, an intercultural biography does not constitute hybridity in and of itself. So, for example, the unmodified copper kettles that Native Americans obtained through trade in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century New France (Turgeon 1997;Howey 2011) are not what I would label hybrids. But the copper shields ("Coppers") famously potlatched among nineteenth-century tribes of the Pacific Northwest, which were transformed out of copper salvaged from the hulls of European and Asian ships, could be (Jopling 1989).…”

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The Mickey Mouse kachina and other “Double Objects”: Hybridity in the material culture of colonial encounters

Liebmann

2015

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Hybridity is a term used by anthropologists to characterize the amalgamation of influences from two (or more) different cultural groups. Hybridity has captivated archaeology in recent years, especially archaeologists investigating colonialism in Native American contexts. At the same time, a growing chorus of critics has begun to question anthropology’s devotion to hybridity and hybrid objects. These critics take issue with the term’s alleged Eurocentrism, implications of cultural purity, and evolutionary etymology. In this article, I address these critiques and advocate a more circumscribed use of hybridity in archaeology. I caution against the abandonment of the term entirely, because the archaeological identification of hybridity provides insights into both present-day (etic) and past (emic) perspectives on cultural amalgamation. Hybridity reveals the biases of contemporary researchers regarding the societies we study, as well as highlighting the ways in which power structures centered and marginalized colonial subjects in the past. To illustrate these points, I draw on case studies involving the Hopi Mickey Mouse kachina, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indigenous-colonial whips from the American Plains and southeast Australia, and seventeenth-century Pueblo ceramics from the American Southwest.

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The Tale of the Kettle: Odyssey of an Intercultural Object

Cited by 51 publications

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Personal Adornment and Expressions of Status: Beads and the Gambia River’s Atlantic Trade

Personal Adornment and Expressions of Status: Beads and the Gambia River’s Atlantic Trade

Le bungalow québécois, monument1 vernaculaire

The Mickey Mouse kachina and other “Double Objects”: Hybridity in the material culture of colonial encounters

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