When the Foreign Becomes Familiar
The Glass Bead Assemblage from Madjedbebe, Northern Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6044035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mirani Litster (0000-0002-0843-1628, Australian National University, corresponding author), Lynley Wallis (0000-0002-9324-8069, Griffith University), Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 421-438 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774323000458 |
| OpenAlex | W4391444029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 58 |
By investigating the materiality of colonial encounters, specifically the consumption of introduced commodities by Indigenous peoples, archaeologists can explore questions concerning value, agency, consumer choice and localization. This has the significant capacity to broaden understandings of intercultural encounters and challenge colonial narratives. Glass beads represent one of the earliest foreign material culture introductions to the Indigenous peoples of Australia. The rock-shelter site of Madjedbebe, best known for yielding the oldest evidence to date for human occupation in Australia, also contains one of the largest assemblages from an Indigenous site context in Australia—51 glass beads and associated fragments. We present here an analysis of these objects—through attribute and microwear analysis—in concert with the archival record, to reveal the ways in which Bininj (Aboriginal people) incorporated glass beads into their own lifeways
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Bead · Biology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Literature · Narrative · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |