Who was Polynesian? Who was Melanesian? Hybridity and ethnogenesis in the South Vanuatu Outliers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21157453
AutoresJ L Flexner (0000-0002-2577-5991, Department of Archaeology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, autor de correspondencia), Bedford (0000-0001-6476-5617, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany), F Valentin (0000-0002-0575-7681, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France; Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie à Nanterre, Nanterre, France)
Año2019
Volumen19
Número3
Páginas403-426
Fecha de publicación2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1469-6053 • E-ISSN: 1741-2951
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1469605319846719
OpenAlexW2944412481
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas49

Archaeological constructions of past identities often rely more or less explicitly on contemporary notions of culture and community in ways that can sometimes oversimplify the past and present. The archaeology of European colonialism has shown the proliferation of ‘hybrid’ identities that emerged from relatively recent cross-cultural encounters (though this concept is not without its critics). We argue that this perspective can also inform interpretations of the deeper past, with specific reference to ongoing research in the Polynesian Outliers of Futuna and Aniwa, south Vanuatu. Polynesian Outliers represent precisely the kinds of cross-cultural spaces where hybrid identities likely emerged during the pre-European era. A theoretical approach drawing on archaeological approaches to hybridity and ethnogenetic theories applied to the south Vanuatu Outliers allows for a clearer understanding of the roles difference and familiarity played in identity formation in the past

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Cultural identity · Ethnic group · Ethnogenesis · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Hybridity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies