An Archaeology of Colonial Identity : Power and Material Culture in the Dwars Valley, South Africa

An Archaeology of Colonial Identity : Power and Material Culture in the Dwars Valley, South Africa

Author
Gavin Lucas
Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Social Science

This book is the based on the work of many people, and while I discuss many of them in the general context of this book in Chapter 1. The backbone of the book is based on a project, 'Farm Lives' conducted between 1999 and 2002, funded exclusively by the McDonald Institute for Archaeolog-ical Research at the University of Cambridge.


Keywords: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Cape Colony of South Africa / Colonialism / Dutch East India Company / East India Company / Capitalism / Colonial identity / Colonial trade / Dutch capitalism / Historical archaeology / Material culture / Settlement / Settler / Slaves / Social differentiation / Social theory