Modern colonialism and cultural continuity through material culture: an example from Guam and CHamoru plaiting

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• dc.contributor.author Montón Subías, Sandra
• dc.contributor.author Hernando Gonzalo, Almudena
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-19T11:13:05Z
• dc.date.available 2022-05-19T11:13:05Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract This article analyzes cultural persistence in Guam through plaiting, material culture, and maintenance activities, a set of daily practices that are essential to social continuity and well-being. The colonization of Guam began in 1668 with the Jesuit missions. Jesuit policies utilized maintenance activities to colonize Indigenous lifeways and subjectivities, but we believe those activities also functioned as reservoirs of traditional knowledge. Although plaiting has been situated in different historical contexts across the centuries, it no doubt expresses material continuities stretching from a precolonial past. The article also challenges today’s widespread belief that the search for change is a universal value. It argues that societies appreciate continuity over change in inverse proportion to technological control over nature, asymmetrical relationships of power, and specialized fragmentation of functional tasks. In the absence of such features, the best guarantee of survival lies in maintaining the balance achieved by traditional lifeways.
• dc.description.sponsorship This article was written with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under Grant PID2019-105431GB-I00.
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• dc.identifier.citation Montón-Subías S, Hernando A. Modern colonialism and cultural continuity through material culture: an example from Guam and CHamoru plaiting. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 2022 Sep;26(3):823-47. DOI: 10.1007/s10761-021-00626-3
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-021-00626-3
• dc.identifier.issn 1092-7697
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53171
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Historical Archaeology. 2022 Sep;26(3):823-47
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• dc.subject.keyword Modern colonialism
• dc.subject.keyword Cultural persistence
• dc.subject.keyword Gender and material culture
• dc.subject.keyword Guam
• dc.title Modern colonialism and cultural continuity through material culture: an example from Guam and CHamoru plaiting
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