The Materiality of Individuality

Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives
2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4419-0497-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1120 g

Generally individuals in history are known for a particular reason - they somehow influenced history. Very little is known about the ordinary person who lived in the past. But historical archaeologists - through their interpretation of the material culture and historic record - can study the past on an individual level. This brings archaeological interpretation from a micro to a macro level - as opposed to the traditional level of society to community to individual interpretation.

The cases presented in this volume engage material culture that is owned or used by a single person and is thus associated with an individual at some point in its uselife. The volume takes bodkins, shoes, beads, cloth, religious items, grave goods, as well as subassemblages from well-defined contexts from New England, the Chesapeake, New Orleans, Hawaii, Spanish colonial America, and London in the pursuit of the individual and the textured interpretation this analytical scale provides.

This volume promises to present innovative approaches to a host of archaeological materials, drawing widely on the range of archaeological research for the historical period today. Capitalizing on several topics and research threads with great currency, such as the examination of material culture and interest in various and intersecting lines of identity construction, as well as presenting an international and multiregional approach to these topics, this volume will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, material culture scholars, and social historians interested in a wide variety of time periods and subfields.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Carolyn L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Individuality in Collective Spaces.- Introduction: Objects, Scale, and Identity Entangled.- The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph: An Eighteenth-Century Mission-Garrison-Trading Post Complex on the Edge of Empire.- People in Objects: Individuality and the Quotidian in the Material Culture of War.- A Biography of a Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle: The Biucchi Brothers and the Ticinese Community in Nineteenth-Century London.- Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii.- The Lens of Personal Objects.- Bodkin Biographies.- Material Manipulations: Beads and Cloth in the French Colonies.- Mission Santa Catalina’s Mondadiente de Plata (Silver Toothpick): Materiality and the Construction of Self in Spanish La Florida.- Single Shoes and Individual Lives: The Mill Creek Shoe Project.- Personal Impacts: Seeing Sites through the Individual.- Beyond Consumption: Social Relationships, Material Culture, and Identity.- Widow Pratt’s Possessions: Individuality and Georgianization in Newport, Rhode Island.- Consuming Individuality: Collective Identity Along the Color Line.