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Identity, choice, and the meaning of material culture
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The use of material culture as symbolic social objects confers a value to ordinary items of everyday life that were used collectively for the purposes of representation and communication. Purposeful choices of items such as tobacco pipes, ceramics, and glass can be viewed as collective means of communication within the community. Within the enslaved populations that dominated the early modern Caribbean, the acquisition and use of consumer goods was instrumental in creating the building blocks of self and community identities that were damaged or destroyed by the displacement of the Middle Passage. Identity in the post-1800 village took on different expressions as residents came to understand their critical worth and value to the economic system. With the decline of sugar production, the Danish government spent little effort in administration of the islands, leading to the eventual sale to the United States in 1917.
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“Connecting concrete objects in the material world to intangible and fluid concepts such as cultural identity is a common methodology across the field of archaeology, as these objects can serve as visible symbols of culture to anchor these ideas that would otherwise remain invisible to present day society (Kellar 2017).”
From An Archaeology of Struggle: Material Remnants of a Double Consciousness in the American South and Danish Caribbean Communities (2019) · cites this paper as Kellar 2017
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“The current research can be placed within the larger context of African Diaspora archaeology that reaches far beyond the earliest searches for Africanisms (Fairbanks 1984) and begins to incorporate social theories on creolization, ethnogenesis, or the formation of a unique cultural identity, as well as the interpretation of artifacts and patterns of consumption as expressions of 'embedded”
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“More recent studies connecting material culture and identity in the Danish West Indies suggest that tobacco pipes, ceramics, and glass recovered from the Adrian Estate Village in St. John could do more than serve as expressions of complex multicultural identities and trade networks but could also be used as evidence of agency and the development of social coping mechanisms at different times in”
From An Archaeology of Struggle: Material Remnants of a Double Consciousness in the American South and Danish Caribbean Communities (2019) · cites this paper as Kellar 2017
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“The term bridges is used to describe the power of community-based objects to recover 'lost or displaced cultural meaning' and connect different communities together, but objects also have the power to be used as a fence to 'prevent the deterioration of self or community identity' from the dominant culture and define your own community as distinct from outsiders (Kellar 2017, 241).”
From An Archaeology of Struggle: Material Remnants of a Double Consciousness in the American South and Danish Caribbean Communities (2019) · cites this paper as Kellar 2017, 241
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- Armstrong, Douglas V. 1990 The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. University of Illinois Press, Chicago.
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Odewale, A. (2019) · Transforming Anthropology · doi:10.1111/traa.12165 · Cited by 15
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- Kellar, E. J.
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- Material Worlds
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- Routledge
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- 2017-02-17
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- 234-255
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- en
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