Available in paperback from 6 February 2006:
An Archaeology of Colonial Identity: Power and Material Culture in the
Dwars Valley, South Africa
Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Gavin Lucas
2005, 240 p., Softcover
ISBN: 0-306-48538-9
This book examines how colonial identities were constructed in the Cape
Colony of South Africa since its establishment in the 17th century up to
the 20th century. It is an explicitly archaeological approach but which
also draws more widely on documentary material to examine how different
people in the colony – from settler to slave – constructed identities
through material culture. The book explores three key groups: The Dutch
East India Company, the free settlers and the slaves, through a number of
archaeological sites and contexts. With the archaeological evidence, the
book examines how these different groups were enmeshed within racial,
sexual, and class ideologies in the broader context of capitalism and
colonialism, and draws extensively on current social theory, in particular
post-colonialism, feminism and Marxism. This book is aimed primarily at
archaeologists, but will also attract historians and those interested in
cultural theory and material culture studies. Specifically, historical
archaeologists and students of historical archaeology will be the primary
readership and buyers.
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