Embattled Excavations Colonial and Transcultural Constructions of the American Deep Past

• Autor principal: Mackenthun, Gesa (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Waxmann Verlag 2021
• Colección: Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship 11
• Materias: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; American Studies; New American Studies; American Isthmus; settler colonial studies; history of science; postcolonial studies; decolonial studies; Colonialism; colonial discourse analysis; ciritical empire studies; Fossils; Archaeology
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

American national self-invention is fundamentally entwined with cultural constructions of American "prehistory" - the human presence on the continent since the earliest arrivals at least 16,000 years ago. Embattled Excavations offers exemplary readings of the entanglements between reconstr...