Of bleeding skulls and the postcolonial uncanny: bones and the presence of Nonosabasut and Demasduit
Based on three years of fieldwork in Newfoundland and the UK, this article considers the various materializations of a Beothuk man and woman, all of which have, at their heart, the skull as an ambivalent thing, at once a trace of their presence and a confirmation of their absence. These various proc...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1359183510382962 2024-04-28T08:14:30+00:00 Of bleeding skulls and the postcolonial uncanny: bones and the presence of Nonosabasut and Demasduit Harries, John 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359183510382962 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1359183510382962 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Material Culture volume 15, issue 4, page 403-421 ISSN 1359-1835 1460-3586 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Archeology Anthropology journal-article 2010 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183510382962 2024-04-09T08:02:46Z Based on three years of fieldwork in Newfoundland and the UK, this article considers the various materializations of a Beothuk man and woman, all of which have, at their heart, the skull as an ambivalent thing, at once a trace of their presence and a confirmation of their absence. These various processes of materialization, the author argues, are attempts to arrest the ambivalent movement between presence and absence, yet are themselves haunted by the thing itself, which is both insufficient to, yet in excess of, these materializations. In so doing, it engages with broader questions of the nature of the affective presence of human remains, particularly in the context of the postcolonial politic of belonging in settler societies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Beothuk Newfoundland SAGE Publications Journal of Material Culture 15 4 403 421 |
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Based on three years of fieldwork in Newfoundland and the UK, this article considers the various materializations of a Beothuk man and woman, all of which have, at their heart, the skull as an ambivalent thing, at once a trace of their presence and a confirmation of their absence. These various processes of materialization, the author argues, are attempts to arrest the ambivalent movement between presence and absence, yet are themselves haunted by the thing itself, which is both insufficient to, yet in excess of, these materializations. In so doing, it engages with broader questions of the nature of the affective presence of human remains, particularly in the context of the postcolonial politic of belonging in settler societies. |
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