M C Reilly
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5565 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M C Reilly |
| PRENOMES | M C |
| SOBRENOME | Reilly |
| ASSINATURA | REILLY M C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City College of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0080-1284 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Revisiting Cultural Transformation from the West Indies to West Africa
Early African Diaspora archaeologies were informed by anthropological approaches that championed models of cultural transformation. This theoretical model proved useful in explaining how enslaved individuals built community and cultural lifeways despite the barbarity of enslavement. Inspired by academic debates surrounding the cultural lifeways of Afro-Caribbean populations, including Douglas Armstrong’s pioneering work in Jamaica, I explore buri…
An Archaeology of Return
The prospect of return to a distant homeland preoccupied many enslaved and free people of color throughout the Americas. Long after Emancipation, return remains a fraught concept and possibility in the wake of dispossession. This article explores the archaeological possibilities for analyzing return for African diasporic peoples in the context of deep and ongoing displacement. These possibilities include archaeological considerations of the proce…
“Their Veneration for Every Thing Connected with the Grave”
Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation
This article serves as an introduction to this guest-edited special issue of American Antiquity entitled 'Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation.' We begin by discussing Rinaldo Walcott's notion of the Long Emancipation, noting how the failed promises of the legal ending of slavery led to sensations of freedom and ongoing forms of anti-Blackness. In response, Black communities have employed various strategies in pursuit of freedom. We then…
The Archaeology of Providence Island
The 2022 bicentennial of the arrival of Black Americans to West African shores was a moment of reflection for many Liberians. In the wake of civil war, many questioned the celebratory tone of the occasion and challenged settler heritage narratives. At the same time, Providence Island featured prominently in official programming. Since 2019, our Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology project has worked on the island to investigate the site's func…
Aspirational architecture and AK-47s
Global awareness of Liberia's recent past is largely limited to the long-term bloodshed that erupted with a 1980 coup and the civil conflict that followed soon thereafter (1989-2003). What remains understudied is how recent episodes of violence are tethered to the decades following Liberia's founding as a settler colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822. Our collaborative Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology (BAHA) project, the firs…
Archaeologies of whiteness
In the midst of ardent calls for decolonizing and building a more anti-racist archaeology, whiteness has gone largely unacknowledged in the history of disciplinary thought and practice. As a point of departure, this article asks: why are there so many White archaeologists? In addressing this question, I suggest that the development of early archaeological method and thought was deeply affected by White supremacy. In presenting the two case studie…
Futurity, Time, and Archaeology
There continues to be much archaeological discussion concerning temporality and the complex relationship between the past and present, but less attention is paid to how the future figures into archaeological thought, method, and interpretation. This introductory essay provides the theoretical framework for an archaeological consideration of futurity, an approach that takes seriously the expectations and imaginations of people in the past while al…
Contesting "White Slavery" in the Caribbean
Seventeenth-century reports of the suffering of European indentured servants and the fact that many were transported to Barbados against their wishes has led to a growing body of transatlantic popular literature, particularly dealing with the Irish. This literature claims the existence of "white slavery" in Barbados and, essentially, argues that the harsh labor conditions and sufferings of indentured servants were as bad as or even worse than tha…
“Poor Whites” on the Peripheries
This chapter explores socioeconomic interactions between “Poor Whites” or “Redlegs” and Afro-Barbadians as interpreted through material culture and a particular reading of a Barbadian plantation landscape. The tenantry of Below Cliff, now shrouded in dense forest, is located on the “rab” land or marginal zone of Clifton Hall plantation deemed unsuitable for large-scale agricultural production. Despite the marginality of the space in terms of plan…
Poor White” Recollections and Artifact Reuse in Barbados
Archaeologies of instability
Instability can be experienced and observed in myriad forms including the social, economic, political, familial, mental, and environmental. Some forms of instability register in the depths of an individual's psyche while others are blatantly observable on the physical landscape. Archaeologically, an analysis of the unstable necessitates an approach that operates on multiple scales, from intimate domestic experiences to broader realms of coloniali…
The Archaeology of Settler Farms and Early Plantation Life in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
This article presents methodologies employed in, and initial interpretations of, an archaeological study of a pre-sugar and sugar era Barbadian plantation. A close examination of a 1646 map reveals a pre-sugar landscape in transition as the island was in the midst of the transformative sugar revolution. The map directed archaeological investigations that recovered materials associated with pre-sugar labourers, including European indentured servan…
Archaeologies of whiteness
In the midst of ardent calls for decolonizing and building a more anti-racist archaeology, whiteness has gone largely unacknowledged in the history of disciplinary thought and practice. As a point of departure, this article asks: why are there so many White archaeologists? In addressing this question, I suggest that the development of early archaeological method and thought was deeply affected by White supremacy. In presenting the two case studie…
Poor White” Recollections and Artifact Reuse in Barbados
Futurity, Time, and Archaeology
There continues to be much archaeological discussion concerning temporality and the complex relationship between the past and present, but less attention is paid to how the future figures into archaeological thought, method, and interpretation. This introductory essay provides the theoretical framework for an archaeological consideration of futurity, an approach that takes seriously the expectations and imaginations of people in the past while al…
The Archaeology of Settler Farms and Early Plantation Life in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
This article presents methodologies employed in, and initial interpretations of, an archaeological study of a pre-sugar and sugar era Barbadian plantation. A close examination of a 1646 map reveals a pre-sugar landscape in transition as the island was in the midst of the transformative sugar revolution. The map directed archaeological investigations that recovered materials associated with pre-sugar labourers, including European indentured servan…
Contesting "White Slavery" in the Caribbean
Seventeenth-century reports of the suffering of European indentured servants and the fact that many were transported to Barbados against their wishes has led to a growing body of transatlantic popular literature, particularly dealing with the Irish. This literature claims the existence of "white slavery" in Barbados and, essentially, argues that the harsh labor conditions and sufferings of indentured servants were as bad as or even worse than tha…
Aspirational architecture and AK-47s
Global awareness of Liberia's recent past is largely limited to the long-term bloodshed that erupted with a 1980 coup and the civil conflict that followed soon thereafter (1989-2003). What remains understudied is how recent episodes of violence are tethered to the decades following Liberia's founding as a settler colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822. Our collaborative Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology (BAHA) project, the firs…
Archaeologies of instability
Instability can be experienced and observed in myriad forms including the social, economic, political, familial, mental, and environmental. Some forms of instability register in the depths of an individual's psyche while others are blatantly observable on the physical landscape. Archaeologically, an analysis of the unstable necessitates an approach that operates on multiple scales, from intimate domestic experiences to broader realms of coloniali…
The Archaeology of Settler Farms and Early Plantation Life in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
This article presents methodologies employed in, and initial interpretations of, an archaeological study of a pre-sugar and sugar era Barbadian plantation. A close examination of a 1646 map reveals a pre-sugar landscape in transition as the island was in the midst of the transformative sugar revolution. The map directed archaeological investigations that recovered materials associated with pre-sugar labourers, including European indentured servan…
“Poor Whites” on the Peripheries
This chapter explores socioeconomic interactions between “Poor Whites” or “Redlegs” and Afro-Barbadians as interpreted through material culture and a particular reading of a Barbadian plantation landscape. The tenantry of Below Cliff, now shrouded in dense forest, is located on the “rab” land or marginal zone of Clifton Hall plantation deemed unsuitable for large-scale agricultural production. Despite the marginality of the space in terms of plan…
Poor White” Recollections and Artifact Reuse in Barbados
Archaeologies of instability
Instability can be experienced and observed in myriad forms including the social, economic, political, familial, mental, and environmental. Some forms of instability register in the depths of an individual's psyche while others are blatantly observable on the physical landscape. Archaeologically, an analysis of the unstable necessitates an approach that operates on multiple scales, from intimate domestic experiences to broader realms of coloniali…
Contesting "White Slavery" in the Caribbean
Seventeenth-century reports of the suffering of European indentured servants and the fact that many were transported to Barbados against their wishes has led to a growing body of transatlantic popular literature, particularly dealing with the Irish. This literature claims the existence of "white slavery" in Barbados and, essentially, argues that the harsh labor conditions and sufferings of indentured servants were as bad as or even worse than tha…
Futurity, Time, and Archaeology
There continues to be much archaeological discussion concerning temporality and the complex relationship between the past and present, but less attention is paid to how the future figures into archaeological thought, method, and interpretation. This introductory essay provides the theoretical framework for an archaeological consideration of futurity, an approach that takes seriously the expectations and imaginations of people in the past while al…
Archaeologies of whiteness
In the midst of ardent calls for decolonizing and building a more anti-racist archaeology, whiteness has gone largely unacknowledged in the history of disciplinary thought and practice. As a point of departure, this article asks: why are there so many White archaeologists? In addressing this question, I suggest that the development of early archaeological method and thought was deeply affected by White supremacy. In presenting the two case studie…
Aspirational architecture and AK-47s
Global awareness of Liberia's recent past is largely limited to the long-term bloodshed that erupted with a 1980 coup and the civil conflict that followed soon thereafter (1989-2003). What remains understudied is how recent episodes of violence are tethered to the decades following Liberia's founding as a settler colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822. Our collaborative Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology (BAHA) project, the firs…
Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation
This article serves as an introduction to this guest-edited special issue of American Antiquity entitled 'Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation.' We begin by discussing Rinaldo Walcott's notion of the Long Emancipation, noting how the failed promises of the legal ending of slavery led to sensations of freedom and ongoing forms of anti-Blackness. In response, Black communities have employed various strategies in pursuit of freedom. We then…
The Archaeology of Providence Island
The 2022 bicentennial of the arrival of Black Americans to West African shores was a moment of reflection for many Liberians. In the wake of civil war, many questioned the celebratory tone of the occasion and challenged settler heritage narratives. At the same time, Providence Island featured prominently in official programming. Since 2019, our Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology project has worked on the island to investigate the site's func…
“Their Veneration for Every Thing Connected with the Grave”
Revisiting Cultural Transformation from the West Indies to West Africa
Early African Diaspora archaeologies were informed by anthropological approaches that championed models of cultural transformation. This theoretical model proved useful in explaining how enslaved individuals built community and cultural lifeways despite the barbarity of enslavement. Inspired by academic debates surrounding the cultural lifeways of Afro-Caribbean populations, including Douglas Armstrong’s pioneering work in Jamaica, I explore buri…
An Archaeology of Return
The prospect of return to a distant homeland preoccupied many enslaved and free people of color throughout the Americas. Long after Emancipation, return remains a fraught concept and possibility in the wake of dispossession. This article explores the archaeological possibilities for analyzing return for African diasporic peoples in the context of deep and ongoing displacement. These possibilities include archaeological considerations of the proce…
Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (12 obras) · Archaeology (10 obras) · History (10 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Law (5 obras)