Beaudry / Symonds Interpreting the Early Modern World

Transatlantic Perspectives
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-387-70759-4
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology

This volume is based on a session at a 2005 Society for Historical Archaeology meeting. The organizers assembled historical archaeologists from the UK and the US, whose work arises out of differing intellectual traditions. The authors exchange ideas about what their colleagues have written, and construct dialogues about theories and practices that inform interpretive archaeology on either side of the Atlantic, ending with commentary by two well-known names in interpretive archaeology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Symonds, James

Beaudry, Mary C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;8
3;Contributors;10
4;Introduction: Transatlantic Dialogues and Convergences;12
4.1; References;21
5;Part I Country Estates/Landscapes;24
5.1;1 An American Landscape Conversation;25
5.1.1; Introduction;25
5.1.2; An Interpretive Pathway to Delawares Chateau Country;27
5.1.3; Encounters in the Contemporary Delaware Landscape;29
5.1.4; Databases and Interpretive Landscape Archaeology;31
5.1.5; From Landscape of Poverty and Depression to Dynastic Myth of Past, Present, and Future;33
5.1.6; Of Dynasties;34
5.1.7; Beyond Master Narrative;37
5.1.8; Conclusions: In Search of Landscapes within Landscapes;40
5.1.8.1; On Marriage and Death;40
5.1.8.2; On Cows and Butter and Pots and Pans;41
5.1.8.3; On Family and Home;41
5.1.8.4; On Acquisition and Transformation;43
5.1.8.5; On the Future;43
5.1.9;References;44
5.2;2 Estate Landscapes in England: Interpretive Archaeologies;46
5.2.1; Introduction;46
5.2.2; The Character of Landed Estates in England;47
5.2.2.1; Phases of Development;48
5.2.3; The Language of Landscape;53
5.2.4; Holkham and Monticello: Style and Meaning in England and America;59
5.2.5; Conclusion: Interpretation and Experience;60
5.2.6;References;61
6;Part II Archaeology of NineteenthCentury Cities and the Lives of Working People;64
6.1;3 Beyond Stories: A Quantitative Approach to the Archaeology of Households, Neighborhoods, and Cities;65
6.1.1; Prologue;65
6.1.2; A New Approach;67
6.1.3; Scale in Urban Historical Archaeology;69
6.1.4; Quantitative Analyses of Households, Neighborhoods, and Cities;71
6.1.5; The Potential of Neighborhood Archaeology;76
6.1.6; Rethinking Redundancy and Facing the Unknown;78
6.1.7;References;80
6.2;4 Stooping to Pick Up Stones: A ReflectionINTnl; on Urban Archaeology;82
6.2.1; Down at the Dig;82
6.2.2; In a Back Street;84
6.2.3; The Trouble with Material Culture;86
6.2.4; Adrian and Mary, and Winchester, Too;87
6.2.5; On the Road: West Oakland and Sheffield;93
6.2.5.1; Framing the Questions;94
6.2.5.2; Bacon and Eggs;95
6.2.6; Concluding Thoughts;97
6.2.7;References;101
7;Part III Contesting Race, Constructing Memory;104
7.1;5 Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland;105
7.1.1; The First African to Vote in an American Legislature;107
7.1.2; Africans in Early Maryland;110
7.1.3; The Strange Career of Burial 18;114
7.1.4; Conclusion;124
7.1.5;References;126
7.2;6 ``Sorting Stones'': Monuments, Memory and ResistanceINTnl; in the Scottish Highlands;131
7.2.1; The Practice of Social Memory: An Interpretive Approach;135
7.2.2; Topographies of Loss and Displacement: Negotiating Relationships Between People and Land;138
7.2.3; Thrown Like Chaff in the Wind: Excavation as a Site for the Production and Negotiation of Memory;144
7.2.4; Conclusions: Interpreting and Contesting History;152
7.2.5;References;155
8;Part IV Gender, Embodiment, Life Course, Materiality, and Identity;158
8.1;7 Stitching Women's Lives: Interpreting the ArtifactsINTnl; of Sewing and Needlework;159
8.1.1; Materiality, Microhistory, and Historical Archaeology;161
8.1.2; Artifacts, Situations, Contexts;163
8.1.3; Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Material Culture;164
8.1.3.1; Not Just a Thimble;167
8.1.3.2; When Sewing Implements Become Personal Effects;167
8.1.4; Closing Thoughts;170
8.1.5;References;171
8.2;8 The Intimacy of Death: Interpreting Gender and the Life Course in Medieval and Early Modern Burials;175
8.2.1; Gender and Material Culture: A Trans-Atlantic Discord;175
8.2.2; Embodiment and the Life Course: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues;177
8.2.3; Burial Archaeology: From Medieval to Early Modern;178
8.2.4; A Mothers Grief: The Intimacy of Death;183
8.2.5; The Thread of Life;185
8.2.6;References;187
9;Part V Industrial Housing/Landscapes;190
9.1;9 Mrs. Perrin's ``Tranklements'': Community Life and Class Distinction in (Post)Industrial-Era Cheshire;191
9.1.1; Introduction;191
9.1.1.1; The Materiality of Community Life;191
9.1.2; The Alderley Sandhills Project;193
9.1.2.1; The Debris of Daily Life;196
9.1.2.2; That's Just a Family Thing, You Know;200
9.1.2.3; A Life Recorded;204
9.1.3; Conclusion;206
9.1.4;References;207
9.2;10 Attitudes to Religion, Education, and Status in Worker Settlements: The Architectural and Archaeological Evidence from Wales;210
9.2.1; Welsh Worker Settlements;210
9.2.2; Early Industrial Settlements in Wales;213
9.2.3; Swansea, Blaenavon, and Amlwch;213
9.2.3.1; Workers' Housing and Settlements in Swansea, Blaenavon, and Amlwch;214
9.2.3.1.1; Swansea;214
9.2.3.1.2; Swansea Settlements;214
9.2.3.1.3; Blaenavon and Swansea Settlements;215
9.2.3.1.4; Blaenavon;216
9.2.3.1.5; Amlwch;221
9.2.3.1.6; The Use of Common Land at Swansea and Blaenavon;221
9.2.3.1.7; Works Schools Provision at Blaenavon, Swansea, and Amlwch;225
9.2.4; Contrasting Capitalists and Workers Houses;227
9.2.4.1; Houses;228
9.2.5; Religious Buildings;229
9.2.5.1; The Worker Chapels;230
9.2.5.2; The Worker Churches and Chapels Provided by Industrialists;230
9.2.5.3; The Industrialist Churches and Chapels;230
9.2.6; The Schools;235
9.2.7; Conclusions;236
9.2.8;References;238
10;Part VI Commentary;239
10.1;11 Revelations: Comments on InterpretingINTnl; the Early Modern World;240
10.2;References;244
11;Subject Index;245