Scales of Analysis, Scales of Value: Archaeology at Bush Hill House, Barbados

Agbe-Davies, Anna S.

doi:10.1007/s10761-008-0065-7

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“…Agbe‐Davies () presents a classic case of local populations’ mixed reactions to the Barbadian government's plans to develop a heritage site including a house once owned by U.S. president George Washington to promote tourism to the island. Silverman (:883) similarly documents the complicated interaction between international, national, and local agents to promote and contest the importance and significance of archaeological sites within a vast tourist project in Cusco, Peru.…”

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10 Three Generations of Cooperation: Voices from Tula, Hidalgo

Anderson

2015

Archaeological Papers of the American

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Tula is well known in the archaeological community and in popular consciousness as the capital of the Toltecs. Less well known are the three generations of local residents who have devoted their labor to archaeological projects in the Tula region over the past 70+ years. Since Acosta's foundational work in the 1940s to the present day, archaeologists working at Tula have enjoyed the local population's solid support. This chapter uses interviews with the inhabitants of Tula de Allende to illustrate the seldom-acknowledged backbone of local support that makes all archaeology at Tula possible and suggests directions for future ethnographic research. [Tula, archaeology, local, heritage, participation]

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10 Three Generations of Cooperation: Voices from Tula, Hidalgo

Anderson

2015

Archaeological Papers of the American

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“…We hoped to do research on additional themes, ones that we thought would be valuable to a broader sector of the Barbadian community (i.e., not just BNT members). Conveniently, these themes, such as enslavement, globalisation, and comparative colonialism, were International Journal of Heritage Studies 377 outcomes that would be valued in our home community -that is to say, among archaeologists and other social scientists (Cummins 2004, Agbe-Davies 2009). The BNT was not hostile to these efforts, but clearly saw them as secondary to the problem of identifying the House as the same rented by the Washington brothers, and developing a restoration plan.…”

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Concepts of community in the pursuit of an inclusive archaeology

Agbe-Davies

2010

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Community is a key concept that shapes how we approach our relationships with other individuals and groups. In this article, the author reviews how scholars and laypeople alike use the concept of 'community' in both theoretical and applied contexts. What do heritage professionals expect from the communities with whom they work? How do these communities define and constitute themselves? The answers to such questions have broad implications for the way that scholars interact and collaborate with stakeholders. Examples are presented from the author's archaeological projects at sites associated with communities in the African diaspora that illustrate the importance of an explicit and critical approach to the idea of 'community'. The discussion concludes with preliminary findings from an investigation of the meanings of community among black Chicagoans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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“…This study uses three units of scalar resolution, defined by both their physical boundaries and temporal perspectives (Agbe‐Davies : 113). The global scale considers transport, confinement and convictism, and reviews the ideological context leading up to and following Port Arthur's history.…”

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Everyday artefacts: subsistence and quality of life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania

D'Gluyas

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Hamilton

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Archaeology in Oceania

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This study focuses on the archaeology of the c. Prisoner Barracks constructed at Port Arthur, the domestic quarters for civilian, military and incarcerated occupants spanning almost the entire convict period. Faunal and artefact analyses of the assemblage uncovered at this site were used to provide a more complex understanding of institutional life. The quality of life of the occupants, and how they chose to improve it, is identified through a range of documentary and archaeological sources. It is shown that the barracks complex was a place of domestic life within the confines of an institution. It is evident in the material culture that everyday activities of occupants included the preparation of food, presentation of the home and self, manual tasks such as the production of domestic items, and recreational activities including tobacco smoking and hunting. By assessing indicators of quality of life within an institutional framework, namely the supply of local and imported goods and the material culture of recreation, this work is able to explore potential activities of the occupants that are often hidden from official records. This is examined through a number of scalar units, considering global, local and individual perspectives of the Prisoner Barracks' landscape.

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Scales of Analysis, Scales of Value: Archaeology at Bush Hill House, Barbados

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

10 Three Generations of Cooperation: Voices from Tula, Hidalgo

10 Three Generations of Cooperation: Voices from Tula, Hidalgo

Concepts of community in the pursuit of an inclusive archaeology

Everyday artefacts: subsistence and quality of life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania

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