Who was Polynesian? Who was Melanesian? Hybridity and ethnogenesis in the South Vanuatu Outliers

IF 1.6 2区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Journal of Social Archaeology Pub Date : 2019-05-08 DOI:10.1177/1469605319846719
J. Flexner, S. Bedford, F. Valentin
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Archaeological constructions of past identities often rely more or less explicitly on contemporary notions of culture and community in ways that can sometimes oversimplify the past and present. The archaeology of European colonialism has shown the proliferation of ‘hybrid’ identities that emerged from relatively recent cross-cultural encounters (though this concept is not without its critics). We argue that this perspective can also inform interpretations of the deeper past, with specific reference to ongoing research in the Polynesian Outliers of Futuna and Aniwa, south Vanuatu. Polynesian Outliers represent precisely the kinds of cross-cultural spaces where hybrid identities likely emerged during the pre-European era. A theoretical approach drawing on archaeological approaches to hybridity and ethnogenetic theories applied to the south Vanuatu Outliers allows for a clearer understanding of the roles difference and familiarity played in identity formation in the past.
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波利尼西亚人是谁?谁是美拉尼西亚人?瓦努阿图南部异乡人的杂交与人种起源
对过去身份的考古构建往往或多或少地明确地依赖于当代文化和社区的概念,有时会过于简化过去和现在。欧洲殖民主义考古表明,在相对较新的跨文化遭遇中出现了“混合”身份的激增(尽管这一概念并非没有批评者)。我们认为,这一观点也可以为对更深层次的过去的解释提供信息,特别是参考瓦努阿图南部富图纳和阿尼瓦的波利尼西亚局外人正在进行的研究。波利尼西亚异类恰恰代表了前欧洲时代可能出现混合身份的跨文化空间。一种借鉴考古学方法的杂交和民族遗传学理论的理论方法应用于瓦努阿图南部的局外人,可以更清楚地理解差异和熟悉在过去身份形成中所起的作用。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
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