Fear of a cannibal island: Colonial fear, everyday life, and event landscapes in the Erromango missions of Vanuatu

IF 1.6 2区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
J. Flexner, Jerry Taki
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Abstract

Archaeological landscapes of colonial encounter were shaped to varying degrees by mutual mistrust, misunderstanding, anxiety, and the inherent terror of frontier violence. In the mission encounters of Island Melanesia, the colonial trope of “cannibalism” added a particular tinge to these fears of the colonized other. Mythologies of cannibalism both repulsed and motivated Christian missionaries who were led to places such as Erromango in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Cannibalism as a practice was rare or even non-existent in these encounters, but it remained part of the European imaginary of the region. Several highly-publicized missionary martyrdoms on Erromango between 1839–1872 remain important to local social memories enacted in place. At the same time, there is a backdrop of relatively peaceful everyday life for missionary families as revealed by the archaeological record of mission houses. The structural and actual violence perpetrated by Europeans in missions and other colonial encounters are historically and currently underemphasized.
对食人岛的恐惧:瓦努阿图埃罗曼戈使团的殖民恐惧、日常生活和事件景观
殖民地遭遇的考古景观在不同程度上受到相互不信任、误解、焦虑和边境暴力固有恐怖的影响。在美拉尼西亚岛的任务遭遇中,“食人”的殖民比喻为被殖民的另一方的恐惧增添了一种特殊的色彩。食人神话既排斥又激励了被带到新赫布里底群岛(现瓦努阿图)埃罗曼戈等地的基督教传教士。在这些遭遇中,食人行为很少见,甚至根本不存在,但它仍然是欧洲人对该地区想象的一部分。1839年至1872年间,埃罗曼戈发生了几起备受关注的传教士殉难事件,这些事件对当地的社会记忆仍然很重要。与此同时,传教房屋的考古记录揭示了传教士家庭相对平静的日常生活背景。欧洲人在执行任务和其他殖民遭遇中实施的结构性和实际暴力在历史上和目前都没有得到充分重视。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
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