Visibility and Power: Preliminary Analysis of Social Control on a Bandanese Plantation Compound, Eastern Indonesia
This article evaluates the extent to which the architectural organization of a Dutch plantation compound was designed to aid in plantation administrators’ and owners’ ability to engage in acts of social control via surveillance. The particular compound, Groot Walling, is located on Banda Besar, the largest of the Banda Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia. Our initial hypothesis is that the compound was designed to aid in surveillance activity by administrators against slaves and contract workers. After discussing the history of the islands and prior historical archaeological research into surv... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
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University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
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Schlagwörter: | plantations / historical archaeology / landscape archaeology / surveillance / Banda Islands / Indonesia / Dutch colonialism |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26675814 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/38729 |