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

Working Contexts.- Introduction: Global Networks.- From Cambridge to Capetown: The Politics and Production of Knowledge.- Narrative Genres: The Textual and Visual Archive.- The Archaeology of Dutch Capitalism and the Colonial Trade.- The New Republic and the Dutch east India Company.- The Cape Colony, 1652-1975 - Goede Verwachting: The Silver Mine on the Simonsbert.- Landscapes of Labour.- The Role of Silver in the Indian Ocean Trade.- Status and Settlement in the Cape Colony.- The Settlement of the Southwestern Cape, 1657-1795.- De Goede Hoop: Anatomy of a Settler Farm, 1688-1897.- Consumption, Material Culture and Social Differentiation at the Cape in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Farm Lives.- Slavery at the Cape, 1652-1834.- From Madagascar to the Dwars Valley: The World of Slaves.- Landscapes of Slavery.- Emancipation and the Pniel Mission Station.- Architecture and the Articulation of Post-Emancipation Identities.- From Emancipation to Apartheid: Pniel and the Dwars Valley in the 20th Century.- ERF 776: The Anatomy of a House Lot.- Apartheid and Identity.- Forging Identities.- Race, Class and Gender.- Questions of Identity and Culture.- The Nature of Colonial Space and the Development of Capitalism in the Indian Ocean.- Colonial Identity and Material Culture in the Metropole.- References - Index.

Lucas's linkage of finds, buildings and wider landscapes into a theoretical framework shows historical archaeology at its best.
Paul Courtney, Post Medieval Archaeology

Focuses on South Africa, but has significance that extends much wider than its immediate subject – which has relevance to all historical and archaeological research in the field of European colonialism and capitalism Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras