Of bleeding skulls and the postcolonial uncanny

Bones and the presence of Nonosabasut and Demasduit

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2390955
AutoresJohn Harries (0000-0001-7359-8419, University of Edinburgh, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume15
Fascículo4
Páginas403-421
Data de publicação2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183510382962
OpenAlexW2102912162
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas40

Based on three years of fieldwork in Newfoundland and the UK, this article considers the various materializations of a Beothuk man and woman, all of which have, at their heart, the skull as an ambivalent thing, at once a trace of their presence and a confirmation of their absence. These various processes of materialization, the author argues, are attempts to arrest the ambivalent movement between presence and absence, yet are themselves haunted by the thing itself, which is both insufficient to, yet in excess of, these materializations. In so doing, it engages with broader questions of the nature of the affective presence of human remains, particularly in the context of the postcolonial politic of belonging in settler societies

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Uncanny · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology