Object metamorphosis in colonial contexts

Maintaining diversity through global commodities in New Kingdom Nubia (1550-1070 BCE)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5114749
AutoresRennan Lemos (0000-0002-1803-7173, University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen55
Número5
Páginas494-507
Fecha de publicación2023-10-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2024.2425285
OpenAlexW4404483713
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas51

Across the globe, colonization often produces material homogenization. The same objects originating in the metropole become part of assemblages throughout the colony. These assemblages impact different groups inhabiting dominated territories, shaping globalization. Archaeologists have now moved away from homogenizing acculturation-based perspectives to understand contexts where global/colonial objects are adopted in local contexts. Postcolonial approaches emphasizing the agency of the colonized have moved us forward towards archaeologies of cultural entanglements, processes of combination of imposed patterns by the colonizer and cultural inputs of the colonized resulting in innovation. By identifying metamorphoses of global Egyptian-style objects into locally effective objects in colonized Nubia during the New Kingdom, this paper demonstrates the existence of distinctive, yet to be fully understood colonial identities shaped by different experiences of global objects. If colonialism shapes globalization, colonized experiences of global objects end up separating various groups interacting with the same objects across cultural borders according to their varying socio-economic experiences

Archaeology · Biology · Colonialism · Diversity (politics) · Economic geography · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Kingdom · Larva · Metamorphosis · Object (grammar) · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Ecology · History · Paleontology