Hall / Silliman Historical Archaeology

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5234-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology

This volume offers lively current debates and case studies inhistorical archaeology selected from around the world, includingNorth 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 anddocuments in an attempt to understand the lives of the people andsocieties they study.
* Engages with current theory in an accessible manner.
* Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming localexperiences of people into global patterns.
* Summarizes not only the current state of historicalarchaeology, but also sets the course for the field in decades tocome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Martin

Silliman, Stephen W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction: Archaeology of the Modern World. (Martin Halland Stephen W. Silliman).
Part I: Dimensions of Practice.
2. Environments of History: Biological Dimensions of HistoricalArchaeology. (Stephen A. Mrozowski).
3. Material Culture and Text: Exploring the Spaces Within andBetween. (Patricia Galloway).
4. The Place of Space: Architecture, Landscape, and Social Life.(Elizabeth P. Pauls).
5. Critical Archaeology: Politics Past and Present. (Matthew M.Palus , Mark P. Leone and Matthew D. Cochran).
Part II: Themes in Interpretation.
6. Engendered Archaeology: Women, Men, and Others. (Barbara L.Voss).
7. Ideology and the Material Culture of Life and Death. (HeatherBurke).
8. Struggling with Labor, Working with Identities. (Stephen W.Silliman).
9. Exploring the Institution: Reform, Confinement, SocialChange. (Lu Ann De Cunzo).
10. A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation andConflict. (LouAnn Wurst).
Part III: World Systems and Local Living.
11. Conquistadors, Plantations, and Quilombo: Latin America inHistorical Archaeological Context. Pedro Funari(DH/IFCH/Unicamp).
12. Gold, Black Ivory, and Houses of Stone: HistoricalArchaeology in Africa. (Innocent Pikirayi).
13. Becoming American: Small Things Remembered. (Diana DiPaoloLoren and Mary C. Beaudry).
14. Mission, Gold, Furs, and Manifest Destiny: Rethinking anArchaeology of Colonialism for Western North America. (Kent G.Lightfoot).
15. Pacific Encounters, or Beyond the Islands of History. (JaneLydon).
16. The Tide Reversed: Prospects and Potentials for aPostcolonial Archaeology of Europe. (Matthew Johnson).
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Hall is Deputy Vice Chancellor and former Professorof Historical Archaeology, University of Cape Town.
Stephen W. Silliman is Assistant Professor ofAnthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.