Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America
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19th-century American history
American West
Antiquities
Archaeobotany
Asian American history
California Chinese
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Chinaman
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese migration
Chinese ovens
Chinese tunnels
Chinese-American history
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Fire Science
Foreign Countries
Gold Rush
hand laundry
Historical Archaeology
Home Villages
Immigrant experience
immigration
Import-Export Networks
Isleton Chinatown
Jacksonville Chinese Quarter
Jim Crow
joss house
knowledge transfer
Market Street Chinatown
mining
Montana
New Orleans
North American
opium
Presbyterian San Jose Women's Board of Missions
Railroads
Taphonomy
trans-Pacific fisheries
translocal
transnationalism
Yee Ah Tye
Product details
- ISBN 9780813066356
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Apr 2020
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Archaeologists are becoming increasingly interested in studying the experiences of Chinese immigrants, yet this area of research is mired in long-standing interpretive models that essentialize race and identity. Showcasing the enormous amount of data available on the lives of Chinese people who migrated to the United States and Canada in the nineteenth century, this volume charts new directions by providing fresh, more nuanced approaches to interpreting immigrant life.
In these chapters, leading scholars first tackle broad questions of how best to position and understand these populations. They then delve into a variety of site-based and topical case studies, providing new approaches to themes like Chinese immigrant foodways and highlighting understudied topics including entrepreneurialism, cross-cultural interactions, and conditions in the Jim Crow South. Pushing back against old colonial-based tropes, contributors call for an awareness of the transnational relationships created through migration, engagement with broader archaeological and anthropological debates, and the expansion of research into new contexts and topics.
In these chapters, leading scholars first tackle broad questions of how best to position and understand these populations. They then delve into a variety of site-based and topical case studies, providing new approaches to themes like Chinese immigrant foodways and highlighting understudied topics including entrepreneurialism, cross-cultural interactions, and conditions in the Jim Crow South. Pushing back against old colonial-based tropes, contributors call for an awareness of the transnational relationships created through migration, engagement with broader archaeological and anthropological debates, and the expansion of research into new contexts and topics.
Chelsea Rose is research faculty at Southern Oregon University.
J. Ryan Kennedy is adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans.
J. Ryan Kennedy is adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans.
