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Author Voss, Barbara L., 1967-

Title The Archaeology of Colonialism : Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (370 pages)
Contents Cover; THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ONE INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS: An Archaeology of Sexualities within Colonial Worlds; DEFINITIONS AND THE POLITICS OF COMPARISON; IMPERIAL INTIMACIES AND COLONIAL ENTANGLEMENTS; TOWARD AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF MATERIAL INTIMACIES; Pleasures and Prohibitions; Engaged Bodies; Commemorations; Showing and Telling; SEXUAL EFFECTS, MATERIALITY, AND COLONIAL WORLDS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES
TWO SEXUAL EFFECTS: Postcolonial and Queer Perspectives on the Archaeology of Sexuality and EmpireINTRODUCTION; COLONIALISMS AND IMPERIAL EFFECTS; Empire and the Comparative Project; Postcoloniality and Imperial Effects; FROM IMPERIAL EFFECTS TO SEXUAL EFFECTS; Sex as a Historical Problem; Locating Sexuality in Empire; Sexual Violences, Seductive Pleasures; THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIAL SEXUALITIES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; SECTION I PLEASURES AND PROHIBITIONS; THREE LITTLE BASTARD FELONS: Childhood, Affect, and Labour in the Penal Colonies of Nineteenth-Century Australia; AFFECTIONATE YEARNINGS
ON THE VEXING QUESTION OF FEMALE INCARCERATIONVULNERABLE SPACES: CHILDHOOD AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONVICT SYSTEM; "A MODEL FOR ALL SIMILAR ESTABLISHMENTS IN HER MAJESTYS COLONIES"1; ON THE MATERIALITY OF YEARNING; Origins of the Quadrangle (1842); Establishment of the Female Factory (1847); Reinforcing the Factory Regime (1851); SOME MISCHIEF STILL; 'A DISTURBANCE': THE DISCIPLINARY REGIME UNRAVELS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTE; REFERENCES; FOUR THE CURRENCY OF INTIMACY: Transformations of the Domestic Sphere on the Late-Nineteenth-Century Diamond Fields; INTRODUCTION; AT HOME IN THE PUBLIC
MINE MARRIAGES: COMPOUNDING DESIRECONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; FIVE "A CONCUBINE IS STILL A SLAVE": Sexual Relations and Omani Colonial Identities in Nineteenth-Century East Africa; INTRODUCTION; OMANI COLONIALISM AND CLOVE PLANTATIONS; PLANTATION ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACTS, IDENTITIES, AND PRACTICES; ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIES OF ZANZIBAR; SEXUALITY AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL ZANZIBAR; SEXUALITY AND THE PLANTATION HOUSEHOLD; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; SIX THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION, RITUALS, AND SEX IN PUNIC EIVISSA; INTRODUCTION; THE PUNIC WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND THE ISLAND OF EIVISSA
The Historical ContextPunic Eivissa; The Shrine of Illa Plana and the Figurines; ILLA PLANA AND THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION; SEX AS RITUAL PERFORMANCE; Figurines and Performances; ENGENDERING THE FIGURINES; Beyond the Dual-Gender Division; Hybrid Beings and Gender as a Performance; TO SUM UP; REFERENCES; SECTION II ENGAGED BODIES; SEVEN FEAR, DESIRE, AND MATERIAL STRATEGIES IN COLONIAL LOUISIANA; INTRODUCTION; MATERIALIZING COLONIAL BODIES; NARRATIVES ON NATCHEZ AND FRENCH BODILY AND MATERIAL RELATIONS; MATERIAL RELATIONS AT THE GRAND VILLAGE OF THE NATCHEZ; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES
Summary Examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies
Notes EIGHT DEATH AND SEX: Procreation in the Wake of Fatal Epidemics within Indigenous Communities
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Subject Sex -- Colonies -- History
Interpersonal relations -- Colonies -- History
Race relations
SUBJECT Europe -- Colonies -- Race relations -- History
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Casella, Eleanor Conlin.
ISBN 9781139188302
1139188305
9780511920011
0511920016
1283382563
9781283382564