Article
Discussion Creolization, Complexity, and Time.pdf
Historical Archaeology
(2000)
Abstract
Well before their widespread use in historical archaeology, "creole" and "creolization" had become stock and sometimes confusing terms in other fields. In the academy often they referred to the interaction of previously divergent trajectories of language, culture and history. In many geographic regions they referred to people born in the Americas rather than in Europe or Africa. Added complexities of usage arose because of the power imbalances and pressured intercultural contact that figure in most if not all creolizing circumstances regardless of working definition. As a result, it has not been possible, and probably never will be possible, to talk "just" about creolization. The very different theories that use the term only make things worse. This essay discusses some of their main diverging features.
Keywords
- historical archaeology,
- mixing,
- creolization,
- change
Disciplines
Publication Date
2000
Citation Information
Grey Gundaker. "Discussion Creolization, Complexity, and Time.pdf" Historical Archaeology Vol. 34 Iss. 3 (2000) p. 124 - 133 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/grey-gundaker/4/