Occulting the past. Conceptualizing forgetting in the history and archaeology of Sylvester Manor

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2131101
AutoresKatherine Hayes (0000-0002-6612-9398, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas197-221
Data de publicação2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArchaeological Dialogues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1380-2038 • E-ISSN: 1478-2294
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1380203811000262
OpenAlexW2164063301
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas78

In this paper I argue that we should attend to why and how forgetting happens in concert with the construction of social memory, history, identity and heritage. Through a focus on processes of forgetting, this discussion offers a new set of interpretations of early colonial Sylvester Manor, a 17th-century plantation site in coastal New York. More specifically, the construction of racial categories over several centuries implicates social memory and forgetting, and introduces issues to the manner in which we remember the site where people of European, African and Native American ancestry met. This analysis views memory and forgetting not only as historical vectors in racialization, but also as factors in current identity politics

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Colonialism · Ethnology · Focus (optics · Forgetting · Genealogy · Identity (music · Race (biology · Racialization · Social group · Social identity theory · Social memory · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Gender Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Psychology