Colloquium with Ellen Hsieh, Ph.D. candidate in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Campus
This presentation introduces an archaeological research that investigates the nature of power relationships and colonial entanglements between the Spanish, the indigenous people, and the Chinese trade diasporas during the early colonial period in the Manila area. Scholars often highlight Manila as a critical link between Asia, Europe, and the New World during a pivotal period in world history. However, little attention has been paid to early colonial life in the city. In order to remedy this gap, this research applied postcolonial perspective of colonialism in archaeology while examining the consumption of a wide range of Chinese-/ Spanish (Mexican)-/ indigenous- origin ceramics in the Spanish walled city, Intramuros, and the Chinese quarter, Parián. The results reveal the pluralistic social relationships between and within different ethnic groups in the Manila area and thus provide an alternative view of colonialism in Southeast Asia.
Ellen Hsieh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Before entering the program, she held double BA degrees in history and anthropology and earned an MA degree in anthropology at National Taiwan University. She has participated in various archaeological projects in Taiwan, China, the Philippines and Cambodia. Her research focuses on historical archaeology, colonialism and trading networks in East and Southeast Asia in a global historical context. She also explores material culture through the archaeometry study of a variety of trade goods. Her current research projects include colonialism in early Spanish Manila, a comparative study between Manila and Banten (Indonesia), and the archeometry of trade ceramic and pigments in Intramuros Manila, and Preah Khan of Kompong Svay, Cambodia.
Cost : Free and open to the public.
Barbara Gaerlan
310-206-9163
cseas@international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/
Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology