Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge

by Funari,Pedro Paulo A.

• ISBN13: 9780415117876
• ISBN10: 0415117879
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The definition of historical archaeology has often been restricted to the study of the age of European colonialism. This book demonstrates the potential of adopting a flexible, encompassing definition of historical archaeology which involves the study of all societies with documentary evidence.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xi	(4)
List of tables	xv	(2)
List of contributors	xvii	(2)
Preface	xix
1 Introduction: archaeology in history	1	(20)
Pedro Paulo A. Funari
Sian Jones
Martin Hall
Archaeology in history: problems of definition and subject matter	1	(2)
Dislocation and continuity: historical archaeology and the construction of identity	3	(2)
Theoretical and methodological problems	5	(2)
`Back from the edge': towards a world-wide historical archaeology	7	(4)
Power and identity: common themes -- diverse contexts	11	(5)
Fragmentation	16	(5)
Archaeology and history: an ambivalent relationship	21	(2)
2 Rethinking historical archaeology	23	(14)
Matthew H. Johnson
The fragmentation of theory	25	(2)
The fragmentation of disciplinarity	27	(1)
The fragmentation of master narratives	28	(1)
The fragmentation of method	29	(2)
One way forward	31	(3)
Conclusion	34	(3)
3 Historical archaeology from a world perspective	37	(30)
Pedro Paulo A. Funari
Historical archaeology, an American discipline	37	(2)
The European outlook	39	(3)
Are there peripheral outlooks?	42	(1)
The revolutionary role of capitalism and a possible international outlook	43	(2)
Non-capitalist features of the modern world: Latin America, a case in point	45	(2)
Towards a world perspective	47	(20)
4 Research trends in the historical archaeology of Zimbabwe	67	(18)
Innocent Pikirayi
Introduction	67	(3)
Definitions and theoretical approaches	70	(2)
Historical archaeology in Zimbabwe	72	(2)
Archaeology, environment and the written sources: the archaeological sites connected with the Torwa/Changamire states	74	(1)
Addressing the problem of Ndebele-British interaction: the archaeology of the Ndebele state and the early colonial period	75	(2)
Merchant capital, trade and states in northern Zimbabwe: the archaeology of the Mutapa state	77	(3)
Conclusions	80	(5)
5 The seance of 27 August 1889 and the problem of historical consciousness	85	(12)
Malcolm Quinn
Archaeologies of domination and resistance	97	(2)
6 Gender, symbolism and power in Iberian societies	99	(23)
Margarita Diaz-Andreu
Trinidad Tortosa
Introduction	99	(2)
Iberians, art and gender	101	(15)
Discussion	116	(6)
7 The tyranny of the text: lost social strategies in current historical period archaeology in the classical Mediterranean	122	(15)
David B. Small
Introduction	122	(1)
Texts and archaeology in classical studies	122	(1)
The issue	123	(1)
A social historian/archaeologist's reconstruction	124	(1)
The mortuary record	125	(8)
The context of the cemetery and social historians/archaeologists' models	133	(1)
Discussion	134	(1)
Conclusion	135	(2)
8 The imperial context of Romano-British studies and proposals for a new understanding of social change	137	(14)
Richard Hingley
The imperial context of the theory of Romanization	137	(5)
Proposals for a new understanding of social change	142	(3)
A case study: the roundhouse	145	(1)
Conclusions	146	(5)
9 Class and rubbish	151	(13)
Duncan H. Brown
Class	151	(1)
Medieval rubbish in Southampton	152	(2)
Medieval Southampton	154	(2)
Distribution of pottery types	156	(2)
The value of imported pottery	158	(4)
Conclusion	162	(2)
10 Proto-colonial archaeology: the case of Elizabethan Ireland	164	(16)
Eric Klingelhofer
Earlier Tudor colonization	164	(2)
Elizabethan colonization	166	(7)
Jacobean colonization	173	(2)
Proto-colonial archaeology in Northern Ireland	175	(1)
Conclusions	176	(4)
11 West India: iconographic documents from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil	180	(13)
Maria L. Quartim de Moraes
Introduction	180	(1)
Seventeenth-century travellers: Dutch Brazil	181	(3)
Nineteenth-century travellers: the Enlightenment vision	184	(3)
A way of life: slavery as a relational pattern	187	(4)
Concluding: Brazil as it is	191	(2)
12 Subaltern voices? Finding the spaces between things and words	193	(11)
Martin Hall
13 On rejecting the concept of socio-economic status in historical archaeology	204	(13)
Gregory G. Monks
Introduction	204	(1)
Analytic tools: archaeological	205	(5)
Analytic tools: documentary	210	(3)
A question of aims	213	(1)
Discussion	214	(3)
Issues of identity, nationalism and ethnicity	217	(2)
14 Historical categories and the praxis of identity: the interpretation of ethnicity in historical archaeology	219	(14)
Sian Jones
The problem: the interplay of text and material culture in the interpretation of ethnic groups	219	(3)
Historical archaeology: `handservant' of history or objective science?	222	(2)
A theoretical approach to ethnicity	224	(4)
Practice and representation	228	(1)
Conclusions	229	(4)
15 Lost kingdoms: oral histories, travellers' tales and archaeology in southern Madagascar	233	(22)
Mike Parker Pearson
Karen Godden
Ramilisonina
Retsihisatse
Jean-Luc Schwenninger
Helen Smith
Methods and sources	234	(2)
European written sources: Flacourt and Drury	236	(5)
Oral histories	241	(1)
Archaeological survey and excavation	242	(5)
The origins of Tandroy ethnicity	247	(2)
Conclusion	249	(6)
16 Pidgin English: historical archaeology, cultural exchange and the Chinese in the Rocks, 1890-1930	255	(29)
Jane Lydon
The Rocks	257	(22)
Conclusion	279	(5)
17 The formation of ethnic-American identities: Jewish communities in Boston	284	(24)
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
Introduction	284	(2)
European origins of Jewish-American identities	286	(1)
Outline of the development of Jewish-American identities	287	(2)
A historical archaeology survey of the development of Boston's Jewish-American community identities 1840-1920	289	(14)
Conclusion	303	(5)
18 Maroon, race and gender: Palmares material culture and social relations in a runaway settlement	308	(20)
Pedro Paulo A. Funari
Introduction: slaveholding societies, runaway settlements and Palmares	308	(8)
Historical archaeology, its objectives and the Palmares archaeological project	316	(3)
Ethnicity, material culture and Palmares	319	(9)
19 Black identity and sense of past in Brazilian national culture	328	(17)
Michael Rowlands
Introduction	328	(1)
An archaeology of resistance?	328	(4)
A short history of Palmares	332	(2)
The archaeology of Palmares	334	(6)
An African-American culture at Palmares?	340	(1)
Conclusion	341	(4)
Index	345