Anne-Marie E Cantwell

• Rutgers Newark

Most scholars examining the relationship between European men and Native American women in the colonial situation tend to see a consistently exploitative one on the part of men. Here we look at that relationship through a different lens and discover the agency of Native women in their intimate relationships with European men in the Dutch colony of...

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Archaeological finds made nearly a century ago in New York City provide a unique opportunity to reshape the traditional, self-congratulatory stories of settler colonial society. This essay focuses on the major roles two Native leaders, Penhawitz and Wampage, and their descendants played in the development of New Amsterdam and New Netherland. By inc...

Here, we study the Algonquian and Iroquoian women who lived in settlements surrounding the Dutch colony of New Netherland, in today's northeastern United States. We begin by examining their roles in the colony and find that their lives did not fall into the pattern of servitude, concubinage, culture-brokering, and intermarriage that many have seen...

Under the teeming metropolis that is present-day New York City lie the buried remains of long-lost worlds. The remnants of nineteenth-century New York reveal much about its inhabitants and neighborhoods, from fashionable Washington Square to the notorious Five Points. Underneath there are traces of the Dutch and English colonists who arrived in the...

This paper discusses the repatriation of human remains to indigenous peoples in Australia and the United States and the role anthropologists play in the construction of past, present, and future identities for contemporary indigenous peoples. Using examples from both countries, I suggest that many of the participants at the reburials, and in the ev...

This article is a comparative study of the ways in which, at different times and in different places, the material remains of dead human beings, be they bones or mummies, have been transformed by the living into relics. As such, these relics then were used to create cohesion, legitimacy, and identity for the living. Conversely, these very relics al...

"History of Anthropology" is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each broadly unified around a theme of major importance to both the history and the present practice of anthropological inquiry. "Bones, Bodies, Behavior," the fifth in the series, treats a number of issues relating to the history of biological or physical anthropology: t...

This paper examines a particular problem in functional artifact analysis: Distinguishing between hide and hardwood scrapers. A review of current diagnostic criteria and their limitations is made and a need for simple and rapid criteria is shown. Two additional criteria, artifact weight and bit thickness, are proposed. An analysis of chert scrapers...