Handle with care

Literature, Archaeology, Slavery

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7213675
AutoresJ P Gill (0000-0002-4349-0965, University of Bristol, autor de correspondencia), Catriona J Mckenzie (0000-0001-7288-1319, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK), E Lightfoot (0000-0002-0823-4720, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
Año2018
Volumen44
Número1
Páginas21-37
Fecha de publicación2018-11-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInterdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03080188.2018.1543913
OpenAlexW2803188764
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas21

This article examines the relationship between literary and bioarchaeological approaches to slavery, and investigates how the methods and priorities of each discipline might inform each other in understanding what it was like to be enslaved. Both bioarchaeologists and creative writers have attempted to access the inner lives of enslaved people, yet there has been little interaction between them. This paper offers an account of a research project which brought together a literary scholar, two archaeological scientists and seven creative writers to explore how writing might not only communicate a history understood through archaeological evidence, but could itself inform approaches to that evidence. We discuss two key themes which emerged from the project: Conversation and Caring. These themes were crucial to the interdisciplinary process, as it was only through attention to our relationships with each other that we could begin to reassess the nature of material in each of our disciplines

Archaeology · Conversation · Key (lock · Process (computing · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Communication · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History