Historical Archaeologies of Cognition - Explorations into Faith, Hope and Charity - James Symonds
8. Reflections on Resistance: Agency, Identity and Being Indigenous in Colonial British Columbia
Historical Archaeologies of Cognition - Explorations into Faith, Hope and Charity - James Symonds
Jeff Oliver [+]
University of Aberdeen
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Jeff Oliver is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast: Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley (University of Arizona Press, 2010) and co-editor of Wild Signs: Graffiti in Archaeology and History (BAR, 2010). His research focuses on colonial landscapes in western Canada. More recently he has become involved in a project on the historical archaeology of nineteenth-century rural life in Scotland.
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This chapter sets out to investigate the complexity of the 'colonial experience' in a detailed case study from south western British Columbia. Drawing on recent developments in postcolonial theory, the author explores how one group of colonized people responded to alien concepts.