Crafting History in the Northern Plains: A Political Economy of the Heart River Region, 1400–1750. Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America Series . By Mark D. Mitchell . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2013 . xvi + 270 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. $60.00 .)

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-196
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
North America ◽  
Northern Plains ◽  
River Region ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Archaeology Of Colonialism ◽  
Native North America

Archaeologies of Persistence: Reconsidering the Legacies of Colonialism in Native North America

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee M. Panich
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
North America ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Archaeology Of Colonialism ◽  
Native North America ◽  
Cultural Extinction ◽  
Descendant Communities

AbstractThis article seeks to define common ground from which to build a more integrated approach to the persistence of indigenous societies in North America. Three concepts are discussed—identity, practice, and context—that may prove useful for the development of archaeologies of persistence by allowing us to counter terminal narratives and essentialist concepts of cultural identity that are deeply ingrained in scholarly and popular thinking about Native American societies. The use of these concepts is illustrated in an example that shows how current archaeological research is challenging long-held scholarty and popular beliefs about the effects of colonialism in coastal California, where the policies of Spanish colonial missionaries have long been thought to have driven local native peoples to cultural extinction. By exploring how the sometimes dramatic changes of the colonial period were internally structured and are just one part of long and dynamic native histories, archaeologies of persistence may help to bring about a shift in how the archaeology of colonialism presents the histories of native peoples in North America—one that can make archaeology more relevant to descendant communities.

Book Reviews

Focaal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (46) ◽  
pp. 176-186
Author(s):  
Franz Wojciechowski ◽  
Sarah Stohlman ◽  
Djamila Schans ◽  
David O'Kane ◽  
Ludwien Meeuwesen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
Native North America ◽  
Anthropology Of Tourism

Hermanten Kate, Travels and researches in Native North America, 1882–1883Rainer Ohliger, Karen Schönwälder, and Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, European encounters: migrants, migration and European societies since 1945Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune, Student mobility and narrative in Europe: the new strangersMarja J. Spierenburg, Strangers, spirits and land reforms: conflicts about land in Dande, Northern ZimbabweRenée R. Shield and Stanley M. Aronson, Aging in today’s world: conversations between an anthropologist and a physicianShinji Yamashita, Bali and beyond: explorations in the anthropology of tourism

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