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American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. The authors use goods used or made in America to illuminate issues such as tenancy, racism, sexism, and regional bias. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects - from tin cans and bottles to namebrand items, from fish bones to machinery - to analyze the way American capitalism works. Their cogent analyses take us literally from broken dishes to the international economy. Especially notable chapters examine how an archaeologist formulates questions about exploitation under capitalism, and how the study of artifacts reveals African-American middle class culture and its response to racism.

Mark P. Leone, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park. Terrence W. Epperson, Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. Matthew Johnson, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham. Parker B. Potter, Jr., Sargent Museum of Archaeology, Concord, New Hampshire. Paul R. Mullins, Anthropology Program, George Mason University. Charles E. Orser, Jr., Anthropology Program, Illinois State University. Margaret Purser, Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State University. Alison Wylie, Department of Philosophy, Washington University.

PART I. ISSUES IN A HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY DEVOTED TO STUDYING CAPITALISM

1

(2)

Setting Some Terms for Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

3

(18)

Mark P. Leone

Capitalism and Its Parts

4

(3)

The Role of Consciousness

7

(3)

Who Creates Consciousness for Whom?

10

(3)

Culture and Capitalism

13

(2)

How Do We Take Culture apart from Capitalism?

14

(1)

Commodities and an Active Role for Things

15

(5)

References

20

(1)

PART II. WHERE THE QUESTIONS COME FROM

21

(90)

Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism? The Logic of Question and Answer and the Challenge of Systemic Analysis

23

(28)

Alison Wylie

Introduction: Democratizing Forces

23

(5)

The Logic of Question and Answer

28

(13)

The Argument for Conjoint Uses of Evidence

29

(6)

Vertical and Horizontal Independence

35

(2)

Causal, Inferential, and Disciplinary Independence

37

(4)

Generalizing within the Instance: Cables and Tacking

41

(5)

Conclusions

46

(1)

References

46

(5)

Historical Archaeology and Identity in Modern America

51

(30)

Parker B. Potter, Jr.

Introduction

51

(3)

August, 1993

54

(7)

Down on the Farm

55

(2)

Out at the Craftsmen's Fair

57

(3)

And Back Again, to the Real World

60

(1)

Three Guides

61

(7)

Aronowitz: The Archaeology of Work, Labor, and Service

61

(2)

MacCannell: The Archaeology of Cannibalism

63

(4)

Miller: The Archaeology of Consumption

67

(1)

Two Case Studies

68

(9)

Annapolis: The Archaeology of Tourism

69

(3)

An Interlude: Vulgar Identity

72

(1)

New Hampshire: The Archaeology of ``Mass Hysteria''

73

(4)

Conclusions

77

(1)

References

77

(4)

The Contested Commons: Archaeologies of Race, Repression, and Resistance in New York City

81

(30)

Terrence W. Epperson

Introduction: The Commons and the African Burial Ground

81

(5)

The 1712 Rising: Coromantee, Christian, and White Identities

86

(6)

The ``Great Negro Plot'' of 1741

92

(2)

Pinkster Day, 1757: The Politics of Spectacle and and Cultural Property

94

(4)

The 1788 Petition and ``Doctor's Riot''

98

(2)

Conclusion: Essentialism, Identity Politics, and the Anti-Racist Struggle

100

(4)

References

104

(7)

PART III. INTEGRATION INTO CAPITALISM AND IMPOVERISHMENT

111

(106)

Ex Occidente Lux? An Archaeology of Later Capitalism in the Nineteenth-Century West

115

(28)

Margaret Purser

Introduction: Old Bearings, New Directions, and Sinclair Lewis

115

(3)

Capitalism from the West

118

(4)

Material Culture of Later Capitalism

122

(3)

Some Assembly Required: Material Patterning in Paradise Valley

125

(10)

Discussion

135

(2)

References

137

(6)

Archaeology and the Challenges of Capitalist Farm Tenancy in America

143

(26)

Charles E. Orser, Jr.

Introduction

143

(3)

Farm Tenancy as a Post-War, Southern Reality

146

(2)

Farm Tenancy in America

148

(2)

Historical Archaeology and American Farm Tenancy

150

(4)

A Brief Note on the Data Sets

154

(3)

Conclusions

157

(6)

References

163

(6)

``A Bold and Gorgeous Front'': The Contradictions of African America and Consumer Culture

169

(26)

Paul R. Mullins

Introduction

169

(4)

Envisioning a Raceless Market: Brand-Name Consumption

173

(4)

Desire and African-American Consumption

177

(1)

Commodity-Specific Consumer Tactics

178

(3)

Ceramics and Market Circumvention

181

(1)

Surveillance and Black Consumption Caricatures

182

(2)

Fragments of Affluence: African-American Bric-a-Brac

184

(3)

The Contradictions of Capitalist Multivalence

187

(3)

References

190

(5)

Ceramics from Annapolis, Maryland: A Measure of Time Routines and Work Discipline

195

(22)

Mark P. Leone

Introduction

195

(5)

Time Routines, Work Discipline, and Self-Surveillance

200

(4)

Colonial American Economics

204

(7)

Conclusions

211

(4)

References

215

(2)

PART IV. BEYOND NORTH AMERICA

217

(16)

Historical, Archaeology, Capitalism

219

(14)

Matthew Johnson

Introduction

219

(1)

Space

220

(2)

Time

222

(4)

Context

226

(1)

Material Culture

227

(1)

Politics

228

(2)

Conclusion: Beyond Capitalism

230

(1)

References

231

(2)

Index

233

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