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Historical archaeologies of capitalism / edited by Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contributions to global historical archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology and history.
- Archaeology and history--United States.
- United States.
- Material culture--United States.
- Material culture.
- Capitalism--History.
- Capitalism.
- History.
- Capitalism--United States--History.
- United States--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 248 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [1999]
- Summary:
- American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. The authors use goods used or made in America to illuminate issues such as tenancy, racism, sexism, and regional bias. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects - from tin cans and bottles to namebrand items, from fish bones to machinery - to analyze the way American capitalism works. Their cogent analyses take us literally from broken dishes to the international economy. Especially notable chapters examine how an archaeologist formulates questions about exploitation under capitalism, and how the study of artifacts reveals African-American middle class culture and its response to racism.
- Contents:
- Part I. Issues in a Historical Archaeology Devoted to Studying Capitalism 1
- Chapter 1. Setting Some Terms for Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism / Mark P. Leone 3
- Capitalism and Its Parts 4
- The Role of Consciousness 7
- Who Creates Consciousness for Whom? 10
- Culture and Capitalism 13
- How Do We Take Culture apart from Capitalism? 14
- Commodities and an Active Role for Things 15
- Part II. Where the Questions Come From 21
- Chapter 2. Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism? The Logic of Question and Answer and the Challenge of Systemic Analysis / Alison Wylie 23
- Introduction: Democratizing Forces 23
- The Logic of Question and Answer 28
- The Argument for Conjoint Uses of Evidence 29
- Vertical and Horizontal Independence 35
- Causal, Inferential, and Disciplinary Independence 37
- Generalizing within the Instance: Cables and Tacking 41
- Chapter 3. Historical Archaeology and Identity in Modern America / Parker B. Potter, Jr. 51
- August, 1993 54
- Down on the Farm 55
- Out at the Craftsmen's Fair 57
- And Back Again, to the Real World 60
- Three Guides 61
- Aronowitz: The Archaeology of Work, Labor, and Service 61
- MacCannell: The Archaeology of Cannibalism 63
- Miller: The Archaeology of Consumption 67
- Two Case Studies 68
- Annapolis: The Archaeology of Tourism 69
- An Interlude: Vulgar Identity 72
- New Hampshire: The Archaeology of "Mass Hysteria" 73
- Chapter 4. The Contested Commons: Archaeologies of Race, Repression, and Resistance in New York City / Terrence W. Epperson 81
- Introduction: The Commons and the African Burial Ground 81
- The 1712 Rising: Coromantee, Christian, and White Identities 86
- The "Great Negro Plot" of 1741 92
- Pinkster Day, 1757: The Politics of Spectacle and and Cultural Property 94
- The 1788 Petition and "Doctor's Riot" 98
- Conclusion: Essentialism, Identity Politics, and the Anti-Racist Struggle 100
- Part III. Integration Into Capitalism and Impoverishment 111
- Chapter 5. Ex Occidente Lux? An Archaeology of Later Capitalism in the Nineteenth-Century West / Margaret Purser 115
- Introduction: Old Bearings, New Directions, and Sinclair Lewis 115
- Capitalism from the West 118
- Material Culture of Later Capitalism 122
- Some Assembly Required: Material Patterning in Paradise Valley 125
- Chapter 6. Archaeology and the Challenges of Capitalist Farm Tenancy in America / Charles E. Orser, Jr. 143
- Farm Tenancy as a Post-War, Southern Reality 146
- Farm Tenancy in America 148
- Historical Archaeology and American Farm Tenancy 150
- A Brief Note on the Data Sets 154
- Chapter 7. "A Bold and Gorgeous Front": The Contradictions of African America and Consumer Culture / Paul R. Mullins 169
- Envisioning a Raceless Market: Brand-Name Consumption 173
- Desire and African-American Consumption 177
- Commodity-Specific Consumer Tactics 178
- Ceramics and Market Circumvention 181
- Surveillance and Black Consumption Caricatures 182
- Fragments of Affluence: African-American Bric-a-Brac 184
- The Contradictions of Capitalist Multivalence 187
- Chapter 8. Ceramics from Annapolis, Maryland: A Measure of Time Routines and Work Discipline / Mark P. Leone 195
- Time Routines, Work Discipline, and Self-Surveillance 200
- Colonial American Economics 204
- Part IV. Beyond North America 217
- Chapter 9. Historical, Archaeology, Capitalism / Matthew Johnson 219
- Space 220
- Time 222
- Context 226
- Material Culture 227
- Politics 228
- Conclusion: Beyond Capitalism 230.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 030646067X
- 0306460688
- OCLC:
- 40113436
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