ICREA Research Professor Sandra Montón Subías exposes how Archaeology has come a long way from its origins as a colonial discipline to a more recent self-criticism and scrutiny in the wake of anti, post- and de-colonial thought. Beyond archaeologists' explicit unapologetic collaboration with colonialism during the 19th and most of the 20th centuries, an exploration of the effect of colonialism in archaeology reveals a myriad of other aspects in which archaeology became deeply entangled with what at first sight could be considered as a mere political and economic practice. Her own archaeological projects in the Mariana Islands (western Pacific) and the history of archaeological practice are brought to illustrate some of the issues raised.

1. ARCHAEOLOGY AND COLONIALISM: MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
(80TH ICREA COLLOQUIUM)
Margarita Díaz-Andreu (ICREA Research Professor at UB)
Sandra Montón Subías (ICREA Research Professor at UPF)

2. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM AND THE DECOLONIZATION OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Napoleon facing the Sphinx (J.L. Gérôme 1868)

3. COLONIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM
Excavations at Jamestown 1930-31

4. DE-COLONIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM
Native chanting before fieldwork at Ritidian 2008

5. DE-COLONIZING THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM
1. Whom and what are we talking about? Historiographic
silences.
2. Which are the concepts and categories used?
3. Which values are emphasized?
4. Professional practices that accompany research &
fieldwork/ archaeological ethics.

6. DE-COLONIZING THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM
Bloody Sunday, Selma, Alabama, 1965

8. ACCULTURATION

9. ABERIGUA PROJECT: ARCHAEOLOGY OF IBERIAN COLONIALISM IN GUAM

10. ABERIGUA PROJECT: ARCHAEOLOGY OF IBERIAN COLONIALISM IN GUAM
Native Latte Societies (900/1000-1700 AD)

11. GENDER IN THE FIRST GLOBALIZATION

12. MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
FEEDING
AND
FOOD PROCESSING
HIGIENE AND
PUBLIC HEALTH SOCIALIZATION
OF CHILDREN
CONDITIONING AND
ORGANIZATION OF
DOMESTIC SPACE
PRACTICE OF
RELATIONSHIP
AND MOBILITY
CARE GIVING
MAINTENANCE
ACTIVITIES
WEAVING AND
CLOTH MANUFACTURES

14. IN-CORPORATING COLONIALISM. BASIC TEXTILES AND CORPOREAL HABITS

15. IN-CORPORATING COLONIALISM. BASIC TEXTILES AND CORPOREAL HABITS
Disciplinary mechanism to incarnate
Christian values

16. CHILDREN’S SOCIALIZATION
• “(…) que llevado del celo de Dios,
se salía por aquellos montes a
buscar niños perdidos, a quienes
reducía con halagos a que se
vinieran con él, y los traía sobre
sus hombros para criarlos en el
Seminario, y bautizarlos, y a veces
sus padres gentiles le seguían para
matarle por esta causa”.

17. GUMA’ URITAO
“Esta casa de solteros, y solteras, es un sitio donde el Demonio tiene especial reinado de torpeza: pues
por lo menor hay una en cada pueblo, y allí promiscuamente sin que haya quien se lo impida, muda el
sucio gusto de su lascivia, objetos de deshonestidad. Y allí viven los que ya a su modo no están
casados, o casadas“.

18. COOKING AND FOODWAYS

19. DE-COLONIZING THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM
1. Whom and what are we talking about? Historiographic
silences.
2. Which are the concepts and categories used?
3. Which values are emphasized?
4. Professional practices that accompany research &
fieldwork/ archaeological ethics.

20. Humatak Archaeology
www.youtube.com
COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY

21. Thanks!
IPCE, Spanish Ministry of Education,
Culture and Sports.
Palarq Foundation.
Historical Preservation Office (HPO).
GPT. Guam Preservation Trust
(GPT).
Micronesian Area Research Center
(MARC).
HAR2016-77564-C2-1-P.
ICREA.
Univeristy of Hawai’I Mânoa.
Universitat de Barcelona.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra.