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Project

An Archaeology of Comparative Colonialism: material culture, institutions, and cultural change in Malta, c. AD 1530–1910
Code
01DI3115
Duration
01 September 2015 → 28 February 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Archaeology
    • History
    • Theory and methodology of archaeology
    • Other history and archaeology
    • Art studies and sciences
    • Landscape architecture
  • Social sciences
    • Economic history
  • Engineering and technology
    • Landscape architecture
Keywords
Mediterranean ceramics urbanism colonialism institutions post-medieval archaeology 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century English Comparative Iconography and analysis of images Quantitative Language and text analysis Field research Southern Europe Archaeometrical research Material culture studies Archaeology
 
Project description

The project aims to produce a novel, material culture-led narrative of daily life in Malta, AD 1530-1910. Archaeological analyses of artefacts and space shall be integrated with archival evidence to produce a social interpretation, which shall be viewed through the prisms of colonial institutions and identity formation. The project culminates in a diachronic comparison of colonialism under three ruling groups.