Interrogating Human Origins

Decolonisation and the Deep Human Past
Herausgeber: Matthews, Jacqueline; Porr, Martin

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Produktbeschreibung

Interrogating Human Origins encourages new critical engagements with the study of human origins, broadening the range of approaches to bring in postcolonial theories, and beginning to explore the decolonisation of this complex topic.

Produktdetails

• Archaeological Orientations
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781138300439
• ISBN-10: 1138300438
• Artikelnr.: 58438637

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline M Matthews is a professional archaeologist with Cultural Heritage Management Australia and has wide-ranging experience working with Indigenous communities across Australia. She completed her Masters thesis at University of Western Australia focused on the application of ontological and postcolonial theories to Australian archaeology, which lead to a research interest in the role of Australia in global debates about human origins. Martin Porr is Associate Professor of Archaeology and a member of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at the University of Western Australia (UWA). His research has so far concentrated on aspects related to Palaeolithic European art, Australian rock art, human origins and postcolonial approaches towards archaeological research. He has conducted fieldwork in Germany, Thailand, Australia, India and the Philippines.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Introduction; Chapter 1 Interrogating and decolonising the deep
human past; Section 2: Definition of the human and its colonial legacy;
Chapter 2 IMHO: inventing modern human origins; Chapter 3 Modern ontologies
of the 'more-than-animal' human: provincialising humanism for the present
day; Chapter 4 Colonialism and narratives of human origins in Asia and
Africa; Chapter 5 Primordialising Aboriginal Australians: colonialist
tropes and Eurocentric views on behavioural markers of modern humans;
Section 3: Representation, temporality and narratives of human origins;
Chapter 6 Old Flames: rekindling ideas of fire, humanity and representation
through creative art practice; Chapter 7 Orientalism and origins: the
search for firsts in the 'Cradle of Civilization'; Chapter 8 The Beast
Without. Becoming human in the science fiction of H.G. Wells; Chapter 9 The
temporality of humanity and the colonial landscape of the deep human past;
Section 4: National, political and historical dimensions of human origins;
Chapter 10 The Far West from the Far East: decolonisation and human origins
in East Asia: the legacy of 1937 and 1948; Chapter 11 Interpretative shifts
in understanding the prehistoric settlement of the Indian Subcontinent:
comparing Western and Indian historical perspectives; Chapter 12 Our
earliest ancestors: human and non-human primates of North America; Chapter
13 "If we are all African, then I am nothing", hominin evolution and the
politics of identity in South Africa; Section 5: The construction of
genetic facts; Chapter 14 Naming the sacred ancestors: taxonomic
reification and Pleistocene genomic narratives; Chapter 15 Traditional
owner participation in genetic research: a researcher perspective