Social Construction of the Past: Representation as PowerGeorge C. Bond, Angela Gilliam First published in 1994. Anthropological and archaeological enquiry are shaped by the historical times in which they are formulated. This collection of essays examines how mainstream scholarship constructs the past - in the case of anthropologists, usually the past of other peoples. By creating another people's cultural history, scholars appropriate it and turn it into a form of domination by one group over another. Mainstream scholarship has often failed to recognize the intellectual and scholarly contribution of subjugated peoples . This volume looks at the way 'postcolonial' scholars are redefining the nature of scholarship, and themselves, in order to develop a more egalitarian discourse. Social Constructions of the Past examines labour, race and gender and its relationship to power and class. It includes essays on a broad range of topics, from the role of intellectuals in restructuring a non-apartheid South Africa, to Haitian working-class women using sexuality to resist domination. |
Contents
Preface George Clement Bond Angela Gilliam | 1 |
Subjugated knowledge | 8 |
Essentialism and the poetics of meaning | 16 |
1 | 25 |
Sexual politics and the mediation of class gender and race | 28 |
Carolle Charles | 44 |
28 | 49 |
Social relations and mediation of sexuality | 51 |
Identity and categories of the person | 131 |
Archaeology and the postmodern | 139 |
29 | 143 |
29 | 152 |
symbol and history in the case | 154 |
Making historical facts | 160 |
31 | 164 |
archaeology and politics | 167 |
blacks in Colombia | 59 |
From Chateaubriand to Sting | 79 |
Notes | 86 |
Literacy and power in colonial Latin America | 89 |
Gender division of labour in the construction of archaeological | 117 |
Models of Greek history and anthropology | 125 |
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