The Parsonage of the Reverend Willoughby Bean: Church, State, and Frontier Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Australia

Brooks, Alasdair; Lawrence, Susan; Lennon, Jane

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“…This can be contrasted with Rev. Bean's parsonage, a household that, while also struggling economically somewhat, attempted to maintain appearances in relation to the Anglican hierarchy (Brooks et al, 2011). As at Te Puna (Middleton, 2008: 203), several of the Imua vessels show kiln scars and other manufacturing defects.…”

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“…There is also an abundant recent literature on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Protestant missions in Aboriginal Australia and parishes on the European settler frontiers (e.g. Ash et al, 2010;Birmingham & Wilson, 2010;Brooks et al, 2011;Ireland, 2010;Lydon, 2009;Morrison et al, 2010Morrison et al, , 2015. There is an emerging consensus that mission life in colonial settings should be understood through indigenous lenses where possible (see also Flexner, 2014b;Flexner & Spriggs, 2015;.…”

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Sherds of Paradise: Domestic Archaeology and Ceramic Artefacts from a Protestant Mission in the South Pacific

Flexner

Ball

2016

Eur. j. archaeol.

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Postmedieval protestant missionaries working in exotic locations used objects both as a marker of their own ‘civilisation’ in contrast to that of the local populations and as a means of engaging these communities with Christianity. European things were displayed and conspicuously used to encourage a consumer mindset and interest in capitalism, thought to be crucial steps on the path to full conversion. Excavations at a Presbyterian mission house on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, recovered a remarkable assemblage of nineteenth-century British-made transfer-printed ceramics for such a remote location. These objects reflect multiple, complex meanings including performance of a ‘civilised’ British identity, romanticized ideals of pastoral landscapes, and conceptions of death and rebirth in the afterlife. These meanings were complicated by the context of cross-cultural interactions that were necessary to the missionary project.

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Sherds of Paradise: Domestic Archaeology and Ceramic Artefacts from a Protestant Mission in the South Pacific

Flexner

Ball

2016

Eur. j. archaeol.

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“…Excavations at George and Ellen Gordon’s house revealed a fairly typical assemblage for a remote colonial missionary household in Australasia (cf. Brooks et al., 2011; Lydon, 2009; Middleton, 2008): bottle glass, British and Chinese ceramics, iron nails, and slate pencils for educating local children (Table 1). Literacy was a key component of conversion for Presbyterians, as reading the Bible was necessary for the true acquisition of faith.…”

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Fear of a cannibal island: Colonial fear, everyday life, and event landscapes in the Erromango missions of Vanuatu

Flexner

Taki

2021

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Archaeological landscapes of colonial encounter were shaped to varying degrees by mutual mistrust, misunderstanding, anxiety, and the inherent terror of frontier violence. In the mission encounters of Island Melanesia, the colonial trope of “cannibalism” added a particular tinge to these fears of the colonized other. Mythologies of cannibalism both repulsed and motivated Christian missionaries who were led to places such as Erromango in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Cannibalism as a practice was rare or even non-existent in these encounters, but it remained part of the European imaginary of the region. Several highly-publicized missionary martyrdoms on Erromango between 1839–1872 remain important to local social memories enacted in place. At the same time, there is a backdrop of relatively peaceful everyday life for missionary families as revealed by the archaeological record of mission houses. The structural and actual violence perpetrated by Europeans in missions and other colonial encounters are historically and currently underemphasized.

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Historical Archaeology Artifact Training in Field Schools: Three International Case Studies

Brooks

2011

Global Perspectives on Archaeological Field Schools

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The Parsonage of the Reverend Willoughby Bean: Church, State, and Frontier Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Australia

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Sherds of Paradise: Domestic Archaeology and Ceramic Artefacts from a Protestant Mission in the South Pacific

Sherds of Paradise: Domestic Archaeology and Ceramic Artefacts from a Protestant Mission in the South Pacific

Fear of a cannibal island: Colonial fear, everyday life, and event landscapes in the Erromango missions of Vanuatu

Historical Archaeology Artifact Training in Field Schools: Three International Case Studies

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