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Multisited Research on Colonowares and the Paradox of Globalization
Author(s) -
Cobb Charles R.,
DePratter Chester B.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01445.x
Subject(s) - globalization , colonialism , indigenous , context (archaeology) , economic geography , population , ethnography , geography , political economy , political science , sociology , development economics , economics , demography , anthropology , law , archaeology , biology , ecology
Multisited ethnography was advanced by George Marcus (1995) as a way to address the spatial reach of communities linked by global flows of commodities, peoples, and institutions. Although the approach is usually applied within the context of modern globalization, many of the processes that define globalization accelerated with the onset of European colonization in the 1400s C.E. Multisited research is particularly suited to the analysis of the “paradox of globalization,” the simultaneous unfolding of heterogeneity and homogeneity throughout the world, which became pervasive in the colonial era. An indigenous ceramic type in eastern North America known as colonoware expresses this paradox, where variable European influence in its morphology and surface treatment can be attributed to the intersection of local practices and large‐scale population movements. [ colonoware, globalization, colonialism ]