Practice Molds Place: Communities of Pottery Production and Situated Identities at Location 3 (AgHk-54)

Ontario archaeology;borderland studies;materiality;archaeology;communities of practice

Suko, Amanda

University of Waterloo

关键词: Ontario archaeology;    borderland studies;    materiality;    archaeology;    communities of practice;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: UWSPACE Waterloo Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

The archaeological study of Late Woodland communities in southern Ontario has identified twospatially and culturally distinct manifestations known as the Western Basin and OntarioIroquoian Traditions. Recently, the emergence of sites along an interstice between these twomanifestations has invited study of the potential for socio-material syncretization within such a;;borderland’ context. Given such circumstances in the contemporary present, multipledescendant groups in the province may wish to exercise stewardship over such sites and thematerials contained therein. As discussed in Chapter One, I interviewed select members of theBkejwanong and Six Nations communities in order to generate Indigenous insights and commenton the appropriate ethical standards and a framework for the Indigenous stewardship ofarchaeological resources. Furthermore, in Chapter Two, this study adopts the coupling ofmateriality theory and the communities of practice approach, along with an attribute-basedanalysis of pottery form and decoration in discussing communities of practice and notions ofidentity at Location 3, a thirteenth century ;;borderland’ site near Arkona, Ontario. I suggest thissite was inhabited by newly configured, mobile potting communities who perceived vesselproduction as a field of co-participation and learning. This, in turn, resulted in the emergence ofsituated social identities and notions of place, along with the materialization of a short-lived,localized design repertoire composed of combined elements from neighbouring potters.