Colonial Matters: Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations

Dommelen, Peter van

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“…What emerges in the frontier is a field of discourse and practice, which I find helpful to describe through Homi Bhabha's concept of the "Third Space". This is a space of hybridity (Bhabha 1996(Bhabha , 2004Fahlander 2007;Grossberg 1996;van Dommelen 2006;Voss 2008, p. 14-15), a realm of inventions and conventions, initiated and maintained by day-to-day situations and encounters. Bhabha, one of the leading postcolonial theoreticians, defines the "Third Space" as a space of translation and construction of a political object that is new, neither one nor the other.…”

Section: Frontiers As a Field Of Studymentioning

confidence: 98%

Re-emerging Frontiers: Postcolonial Theory and Historical Archaeology of the Borderlands

Naum

2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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The article considers the importance of frontier studies in historical archaeology and discusses applicability of some of the concepts deriving from postcolonial theories for a better understanding of human relationships in the frontier zones. The conditions of frontiers and borderlands are compared with the characteristics of the "Third Space" described by Homi Bhabha as a realm of negotiation, translation and remaking. It is argued that concepts developed in postcolonial theories, such as "Third Space," "in-betweeness" or hybridity, are useful not only to address cultural and social processes in borderlands that were created by colonial empires. They are also an apt way to conceptualize relationships in frontiers that lacked colonial stigma. To illustrate this point, two different historical examples of borderlands are scrutinized in this paper: the medieval frontier region that emerged between Denmark and the Northwestern Slavic area and the creation of the colonial frontier in Northeastern America through the establishment of the Praying Indian Towns.

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Section: Frontiers As a Field Of Studymentioning

confidence: 98%

Re-emerging Frontiers: Postcolonial Theory and Historical Archaeology of the Borderlands

Naum

2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…For example, scholars tend to describe indigenous religions as distinctively materialistic, as the history of colonialism shows (see Dommelen 2006). This should come as no surprise, given the fact that the modern academy and sciences share historical roots with the religions of the word.…”

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Integral gnosis and the material other

Karhu

2015

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In this article, I look at Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory as mimesis. This invites me to look at Integral Theory in three ways. First, I look at Integral Theory as process of making materialistic alterity, thus maintaining and fortifying the spirituality of the self. Second, I look at it from the perspective of the dialectics of epistemologies of estrangement and intimacy, raising questions concerning the legitimacy of the juxtaposing interpretative and explanatory approaches to culture. Third, I look at it from a social perspective, as a powerful instance of modern mimesis that creates a typically modern history. I will show how Integral Theory is grounded in the modern intuition of agency being distinct from and superior to the outer material world. To the extent that cultural agency has to materialize in some form, so does Integral Theory. My aim is to recall the close relations of scientific discourse with spirituality, even with magic and even more importantly, I want to show how supposedly secular intuitions of identity and agency bear strong potential for spiritual and religious discourse.

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“…The archaeology of colonialism has grown exponentially during the last decade (e.g., Lyons and Papadopoulos 2002;Stein 2005;Van Dommelen 2006). This growth has gone hand in hand with the development of postcolonial theory in the social sciences.…”

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Fascist Colonialism: The Archaeology of Italian Outposts in Western Ethiopia (1936–41)

González‐Ruibal

2010

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Despite the relevance of material culture in the politics and culture of Italian Fascism , this phenomenon has rarely been approached from an archaeological point of view. In this article, I argue that archaeology can provide new insights into the study of this particular version of totalitarianism. I will show the connections that an archaeological study of fascism has with some concerns of historical archaeology, such as colonialism, power, conflict, and race. For this, three Italian military sites in Ethiopia will be examined.

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Colonial Matters: Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations

Cited by 63 publications

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Re-emerging Frontiers: Postcolonial Theory and Historical Archaeology of the Borderlands

Re-emerging Frontiers: Postcolonial Theory and Historical Archaeology of the Borderlands

Integral gnosis and the material other

Fascist Colonialism: The Archaeology of Italian Outposts in Western Ethiopia (1936–41)

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