#  Anthro 2230 - Archaeology of Colonialism 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2025 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-225758/2024/spring/20886) 

 

 

 

 Prof. Matthew Liebmann

 M 12-2:45pm

 This graduate-level seminar takes a comparative view of colonialism through the consideration of case studies from around the world, with a focus on encounters and interactions between peoples of different cultural traditions during the past 500 years, as well as examples of colonialism in the more distant past.

 LEARNING OUTCOMES: After taking this course, students will be able… • to identify the kinds of archaeological evidence relevant to understanding colonial encounters. • to identify the major models that archaeologists have developed to explain the dynamics of culture contact and colonialism, such as the models of acculturation, creolization, ethnogenesis, hybridity, and globalization. • to identify the differences between different types of colonial encounters • to identify the effects of local circumstances (cultural, historical, environmental) on the outcomes of colonial encounters. • to discuss archaeological evidence relevant to broader knowledge of colonialism from several world areas, including the ancient Near East, Europe, the North Atlantic, North America, South America, Africa, and the South Pacific (Oceania). • to critically evaluate arguments made based on archaeological evidence and relevant documentary sources. • to identify topics of interest to the archaeological study of culture contact and colonialism and to write about empirical evidence relevant to those topics.



 

 



 

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- [ Archaeology ](/course-area/archaeology)
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