Historical Archaeology

Name: Historical Archaeology
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ISBN: 9781405107518

ISBN-10: 1405107510

ISBN-13: 9781405107518

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Martin Hall, Stephen W. Silliman

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This volume offers lively current debates and case studies in historical archaeology selected from around the world, including North 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 and documents in an attempt to understand the lives of the people and societies they study. Engages with current theory in an accessible manner. Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming local experiences of people into global patterns. Summarizes not only the current state of historical archaeology, but also sets the course for…

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List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.386



List of Figures


Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Archaeology of the Modern World




Dimensions of Practice



Environments of History: Biological Dimensions of Historical Archaeology




Material Culture and Text: Exploring the Spaces Within and Between




The Place of Space: Architecture, Landscape, and Social Life




Critical Archaeology: Politics Past and Present




Themes in Interpretation



Engendered Archaeology: Men, Women, and Others




Ideology and the Material Culture of Life and Death




Struggling with Labor, Working with Identities




Exploring the Institution: Reform, Confinement, Social Change




A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict




World Systems and Local Living



Conquistadors, Plantations, and Quilombo: Latin America in Historical Archaeological Context




Gold, Black Ivory, and Houses of Stone: Historical Archaeology in Africa




Becoming American: Small Things Remembered




Missions, Furs, Gold, and Manifest Destiny: Rethinking an Archaeology of Colonialism for Western North America




Pacific Encounters, or Beyond the Islands of History




The Tide Reversed: Prospects and Potentials for a Postcolonial Archaeology of Europe



Index