Historical archaeology : back from the edge / edited by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Martin Hall, and Sian Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Funari, Pedro Paulo A.

Hall, Martin, 1952-

Jones, S. (Siân), 1968-

Series:

One world archaeology ; 31.

One world archaeology ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history--Congresses.

Archaeology and history.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historical Archaeology demonstrates the potential of adopting a flexible, encompassing definition of historical archaeology which involves the study of all societies with documentary evidence. It encourages research that goes beyond the boundaries between prehistory and history. Ranging in subject matter from Roman Britain and Classical Greece, to colonial Africa, Brazil and the United States, the contributors present a much broader range of perspectives than is currently the trend.

Contents:

Cover; HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Back from the edge; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: archaeology in history; ARCHAEOLOGY IN HISTORY: PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION AND SUBJECT MATTER; DISLOCATION AND CONTINUITY: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY; THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; 'BACK FROM THE EDGE': TOWARDS A WORLD-WIDE HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY; POWER AND IDENTITY: COMMON THEMES - DIVERSE CONTEXTS; FRAGMENTATION; ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY: An ambivalent relationship; 2 Rethinking historical archaeology; THE FRAGMENTATION OF THEORY

THE FRAGMENTATION OF DISCIPLINARITY THE FRAGMENTATION OF MASTER NARRATIVES; THE FRAGMENTATION OF METHOD; ONE WAY FORWARD; CONCLUSION; 3 Historical archaeology from a world perspective; HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, AN AMERICAN DISCIPLINE; THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK; ARE THERE PERIPHERAL OUTLOOKS?; THE REVOLUTIONARY ROLE OF CAPITALISM AND A POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK; NON-CAPITALIST FEATURES OF THE MODERN WORLD: LATIN AMERICA, A CASE IN POINT; TOWARDS A WORLD PERSPECTIVE; 4 Research trends in the historical archaeology of Zimbabwe; INTRODUCTION; DEFINITIONS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES

HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN ZIMBABWE ARCHAEOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND THE WRITTEN SOURCES: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES CONNECTED WITH THE TORWA/CHANGAMIRE STATES; ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF NDEBELE-BRITISH INTERACTION: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NDEBELE STATE AND THE EARLY COLONIAL PERIOD; MERCHANT CAPITAL, TRADE AND STATES IN NORTHERN ZIMBABWE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MUTAPA STATE; CONCLUSIONS; 5 The séance of 27 August 1889 and the problem of historical consciousness; ARCHAEOLOGIES OF DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE; 6 Gender, symbolism and power in Iberian societies; INTRODUCTION; IBERIANS, ART AND GENDER

DISCUSSION 7 The tyranny of the text: lost social strategies in current historical period archaeology in the classical Mediterranean; INTRODUCTION; TEXTS AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN CLASSICAL STUDIES; THE ISSUE; A SOCIAL HISTORIAN/ARCHAEOLOGIST'S RECONSTRUCTION; THE MORTUARY RECORD; THE CONTEXT OF THE CEMETERY AND SOCIAL HISTORIANS/ARCHAEOLOGISTS' MODELS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; 8 The imperial context of Romano-British studies and proposals for a new understanding of social change; THE IMPERIAL CONTEXT OF THE THEORY OF ROMANIZATION; PROPOSALS FOR A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL CHANGE

A CASE STUDY: THE ROUND HOUSE CONCLUSIONS; 9 Class and rubbish; CLASS; MEDIEVAL RUBBISH IN SOUTHAMPTON; MEDIEVAL SOUTHAMPTON; DISTRIBUTION OF POTTERY TYPES; THE VALUE OF IMPORTED POTTERY; CONCLUSION; 10 Proto-colonial archaeology: the case of Elizabethan Ireland; EARLIER TUDOR COLONIZATION; ELIZABETHAN COLONIZATION; JACOBEAN COLONIZATION; PROTO-COLONIAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN NORTHERN IRELAND; CONCLUSIONS; 11 West India: iconographic documents from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil; INTRODUCTION; SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELERS: DUTCH BRAZIL; NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELERS: THE ENLIGHTENMENT VISION

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-81616-2

1-134-81617-0

1-280-32430-9

0-585-46062-0

0-203-20881-1

9780203208816

OCLC:

560126939