The archaeology of difference : negotiating cross-cultural engagements in Oceania / edited by Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Negotiating difference: practice makes theory for contemporary archaeology in Oceania / Robin Torrence, Anne Clarke -- 'Round, black and lustrous': a view of encounters with difference in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia / Paul Rainbird -- Reconstructing 'traditional' Kanak society in New Caledonia: the role of archaeology in the study of European contact / Christophe Sand -- Post-contact landscapes of change in Hauraki, New Zealand / Caroline Phillips -- Just another trader? An archaeological perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea / Robin Torrence -- Time, tradition and transformation: the negotiation of cross-cultural engagements on Groote Eylandt, northern Australia / Anne Clark -- Guns or barter? Indigenous exchange networks and the mediation of conflict in post-contact western Arnhem Land / Scott Mitchell -- Signs of life on a barbarous frontier: intercultural encounters in North Australia / Deborah Bird Rose -- 'Barter ... immediately commenced to the satisfaction of both parties': cross-cultural exchange at Port Jackson, 1788-1828 / Isabel McBryde -- The colonial impact? Contact archaeology and indigenous sites in southern New South Wales / Sarah M. Colley -- Keeping the land alive: changing social contexts of landscape and rock art production / Ursula Frederick -- Researching the past: oral history and archaeology at Swan Reach / Steven Hemming, Vivienne Wood, Richard Hunter -- Resistance, creolization or optimal foraging at Killalpaninna mission, South Australia / Judy Birmingham.

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