Of bleeding skulls and the postcolonial uncanny: bones and the presence of Nonosabasut and Demasduit
Of bleeding skulls and the postcolonial uncanny: bones and the presence of Nonosabasut and Demasduit
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流血的头骨和后殖民时代的神秘：骨头以及诺诺萨巴苏特和德马斯杜特的存在
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10.1177/1359183510382962
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发表时间：
2010
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0.9
通讯作者：
J. Harries
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作者：
J. Harries
基于在纽芬兰和英国三年的实地考察，本文认为，一个Beothuk男人和女人的各种物化，所有这些都有，在他们的心脏，头骨作为一个矛盾的东西，一次他们的存在和确认他们的缺席的痕迹。作者认为，这些不同的物化过程试图阻止在场与缺席之间的矛盾运动，但它们本身又被事物本身所困扰，事物本身既不足以实现这些物化，又超出了这些物化。在这样做的时候，它涉及到更广泛的问题，人类遗骸的情感存在的性质，特别是在定居者社会的后殖民政治归属的背景下。
Based on three years of fieldwork in Newfoundland and the UK, this article considers the various materializations of a Beothuk man and woman, all of which have, at their heart, the skull as an ambivalent thing, at once a trace of their presence and a confirmation of their absence. These various processes of materialization, the author argues, are attempts to arrest the ambivalent movement between presence and absence, yet are themselves haunted by the thing itself, which is both insufficient to, yet in excess of, these materializations. In so doing, it engages with broader questions of the nature of the affective presence of human remains, particularly in the context of the postcolonial politic of belonging in settler societies.