Historical Archaeology of the Modern World

Name: Historical Archaeology of the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780306451737

ISBN-10: 0306451735

ISBN-13: 9780306451737

Edition: 1996

Authors: Charles E. Orser

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This unique book offers a theoretical framework for historical archaeology that explicitly relies on network theory. Charles E. Orser, Jr., demonstrates the need to examine the impact of colonialism, Eurocentrism, capitalism, and modernity on all archaeological sites inhabited after 1492 and shows how these large-scale forces create a link among all the sites. Orser investigates the connections between a seventeenth-century runaway slave kingdom in Palmares, Brazil and an early nineteenth-century peasant village in central Ireland. Studying artifacts, landscapes, and social inequalities in these two vastly different cultures, the author explores how the archaeology of fugitive Brazilian…

Book details

List price: $84.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 1/31/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




A Crisis in Historical Archaeology



Men, Women, Nets, and Archaeologists



The Haunts of Historical Archaeology



The Haunts Confer at Gorttoose



The Entangled World of Artifacts



Invented Place, Created Space



Can the Subaltern Speak?



Think Globally, Dig Locally


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