Historical Archaeology

by Hall, Martin; Silliman, Stephen W.

• ISBN13: 9781405107501
• ISBN10: 1405107502
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North America, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe. Authored by 19 experts in the field. Explores how historical archaeologists think about their work, piecing together information from both material culture and documents in an attempt to understand the lives of the people and societies they study. Engages with current theory in an accessible manner. Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming local experiences of people into global patterns. Summarizes not only the current state of historical archaeology, but also sets the course for the field in decades to come.

Author Biography

Martin Hall is Deputy Vice Chancellor and former Professor of Historical Archaeology, University of Cape Town.

Stephen W. Silliman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
1 Introduction: Archaeology of the Modern World	1
Martin Hall and Stephen W. Silliman
Part 1 Dimensions of Practice
2 Environments of History: Biological Dimensions of Historical Archaeology	23	(19)
Stephen A. Mrozowski
3 Material Culture and Text: Exploring the Spaces Within and Between	42	(23)
Patricia Galloway
4 The Place of Space:Architecture, Landscape, and Social Life	65	(19)
Elizabeth P. Pauls
5 Critical Archaeology: Politics Past and Present	84	(23)
Matthew M. Palus, Mark P. Leone, and Matthew D. Cochran
Part Themes in Interpretation
6 Engendered Archaeology: Men, Women, and Others	107	(21)
Barbara L. Voss
7 Ideology and the Material Culture of Life and Death	128	(19)
Heather Burke
8 Struggling with Labor,Working with Identities	147	(20)
Stephen W. Silliman
9 Exploring the Institution: Reform, Confinement, Social Change	167	(23)
Lu Ann De Cunzo
10 A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict	190	(19)
LouAnn Wurst
Part III: World Systems and Local Living
11 Conquistadors, Plantations, and Quilombo: Latin America in Historical Archaeological Context	209	(21)
Pedro Paulo A. Funari
12 Gold, Black Ivory, and Houses of Stone: Historical Archaeology in Africa	230	(21)
Innocent Pikirayi
13 Becoming American: Small Things Remembered	251	(21)
Diana DiPaolo Loren and Mary C. Beaudry
14 Missions, Furs, Gold, and Manifest Destiny: Rethinking an Archaeology of Colonialism for Western North America	272	(21)
Kent G. Lightfoot
15 Pacific Encounters, or Beyond the Islands of History	293	(20)
Jane Lydon
16 The Tide Reversed: Prospects and Potentials for a Postcolonial Archaeology of Europe	313	(19)
Matthew Johnson
Index	332