Historical Archaeology

by Hall, Martin; Silliman, Stephen W.

• ISBN13: 9781405107518
• ISBN10: 1405107510
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• 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
Introduction: Archaeology of the Modern World	1	(22)
Martin Hall
Stephen W. Silliman
Part I: Dimensions of Practice
Environments of History: Biological Dimensions of Historical Archaeology	23	(19)
Stephen A. Mrozowski
Material Culture and Text: Exploring the Spaces Within and Between	42	(23)
Patricia Galloway
The Place of Space: Architecture, Landscape, and Social Life	65	(19)
Elizabeth P. Pauls
Critical Archaeology: Politics Past and Present	84	(23)
Matthew M. Pauls
Mark P. Leone
Matthew D. Cochran
Part II: Themes in Interpretation
Engendered Archaeology: Men, Women, and Others	107	(21)
Barbara L. Voss
Ideology and the Material Culture of Life and Death	128	(19)
Heather Burke
Struggling with Labor, Working with Identities	147	(20)
Stephen W. Silliman
Exploring the Institution: Reform, Confinement, Social Change	167	(23)
Lu Ann De Cunzo
A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict	190	(19)
LouAnn Wurst
Part III: World Systems and Local Living
Conquistadors, Plantations, and Quilombo: Latin America in Historical Archaeological Context	209	(21)
Pedro Paulo A. Funari
Gold, Black Ivory, and Houses of Stone: Historical Archaeology in Africa	230	(21)
Innocent Pikirayi
Becoming American: Small Things Remembered	251	(21)
Diana DiPaolo Loren
Mary C. Beaudry
Missions, Furs, Gold, and Manifest Destiny: Rethinking an Archaeology of Colonialism for Western North America	272	(21)
Kent G. Lightfoot
Pacific Encounters, or Beyond the Islands of History	293	(20)
Jane Lydon
The Tide Reversed: Prospects and Potentials for a Postcolonial Archaeology of Europe	313	(19)
Matthew Johnson
Index	332