Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism / edited by Mark P. Leone, Jocelyn E. Knauf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leone, Mark P., Editor.

Knauf, Jocelyn E., Editor.

Series:

Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, 1574-0439

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Local Subjects:

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 489 p. 104 illus., 69 illus. in color.)

Edition:

2nd ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new edition of Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism shows where the study of capitalism leads archaeologists, scholars and activists. Essays cover a range of geographic, colonial, and racist contexts around the Atlantic basin: Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, the North Atlantic, Europe, and Africa. Here historical archaeologists use current capitalist theory to show the results of creating social classes, employing racism, and beginning and expanding the global processes of resource exploitation. Scholars in this volume also do not avoid the present condition of people, discussing the lasting effects of capitalism’s methods, resistance to them, their archaeology, and their point to us now. Chapters interpret capitalism in the past, the processes that make capitalist expansion possible, and the worldwide sale and reduction of people. Authors discuss how to record and interpret these. This book continues a global historical archaeology, one that is engaged with other disciplines, peoples, and suppressed political and economic histories. Authors in this volume describe how new identities are created, reshaped, and made to appear natural. Chapters in this second edition also continue to address why historical archaeologists study capitalism and the relevance of this work, expanding on one of the important contributions of historical archaeologies of capitalism: critical archaeology.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Contents

Contributors

Prospectus

About the Editors

Part I

Introductions

Chapter-1

Introduction to Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, Second Edition

How We Study Capitalism

Defining Our Subjects

Current Directions in Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

How to Study Capitalism: The Theory and Method

References

Part II

North America: East Coast

Chapter-2

Diabolical Consumerism: Mass Psychology and Social Production between the Gilded and the Golden Ages

Introduction

Interlude: The Conspicuous Symbolism of the American Flag, Lattimer 1897 and 1917

Mastering the Crowd, Mediating the Public, Engineering the Masses

A Crisis in Industrial Capitalism: Social Production

The Archaeology of Machine-Age Political Economy

Mass Consumption as Production

Advertisement: Consumption as Social Production

Product Design

Obsoletism and Waste

Media as Double Consumption/ Production

Conclusion

Chapter-3

Alienation, Praxis and Significant Social Transformation Through Historical Archaeology

Praxis

The Great Dismal Swamp Landscape Study

Great Dismal Swamp People: Their Critique and Action

The Critique in Words

The Archaeological Record as Congealed Critique

Community Organization and Labor

The Critique That Drives a Transformational Archaeology

Chapter-4

What Does Womanhood Have to Do with Capitalism?: Normalized Domesticity and the Rise of Industrialized Food in Annapolis, MD, 1870-1930

The Annapolis Context

What Food Can Tell Us About Engagement with Gender Norms and Industrial Capitalism

The Rise of Industrial Foods

Conclusions

Chapter-5

Archaeology of Telling Time: Plants and the Greenhouse at Wye House Plantation

Chapter-6.

Limestone and Ironstone: Capitalism, Value, and Destruction in a Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Quarry Town

Industry and Texas

Texas and the Logic of Accumulation

Local Operation of Capitalism

Residential Differentiation

Individualism and Privatization

Capitalism and Texas in the Twentieth Century

Part III

North America: West Coast

Chapter-7

Consumption in World War II Japanese American Incarceration Camps

Notes on Terminology

Consumerism in Confinement

Consumerism at Manzanar

Gardens and Garden Ponds

Basements

Consumerism at Idaho's Kooskia Internment Camp

Oral History Interviews

Newspapers

Internet Sources

Chapter-8

Rethinking Feng Shui

Part IV

North Atlantic, Scandinavia, and Ireland

Chapter-9

The First European Colonization of the North Atlantic

Chronology and Background

Long-Range Trade and the Commoditization of Natural Resources

Walrus

The European Dried Fish Trade in Historical Context

The Archaeology

Discussion

Chapter-10

Capitalism and Mobility in the North Atlantic

Introduction: North Atlantic Networks

Mobile Practices in the North Atlantic

A North Atlantic Network: Iceland-Canada

Chapter-11

Metals of Metabolism: The Construction of Industrial Space and the Commodification of Early Modern Sápmi

Sápmi, Sweden, Scandinavia and the Global World

Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift

Industrial Colonialism

Archaeology in Silbojokk/Silbbajåhkå

Kvikkjokk/Huhttán

Kengis/Geavnnis-From Silver to Copper

Late Capitalist Metabolism

The Construction of a Global Industrial Space

Chapter-12.

Materialising Power Struggles of Political Imprisonment at Long Kesh/Maze Prison, Northern Ireland

A Brief History of Northern Ireland

A Short Biography of Long Kesh/Maze Prison

Studying Political Imprisonment in Northern Ireland

Artefactual Insights into Prisoner Experiences and Prison Relationships

Long Kesh/Maze, the Troubles and community museums

Inserting the materiality of protest into narratives of Long Kesh/Maze

Part V

Latin America and the Caribbean

Chapter-13

Las Cadenas que más nos Encadenan son las Cadenas que Hemos Roto: Plantation Systems, Capitalist Mentalities, and the Production of Space, Place, and Identity in Historical Archaeology

The Chains That "Entrap and Exploit" Us

The Production of Practice and Identity in the Modern World

Archaeological Alterity and Archaeologies of Capitalism

The Local in the Global-Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism in Latin America

The Historical Social and Economic Context of the Hacienda Household in Yucatán

Proletarianization in the Physical and Social Landscapes of the Hacienda Household

Plantations are Capitalist Enterprises and As such, Have Something to Tell Us About our Contemporary World

Chapter-14

Historical Archaeology Bottom-Up: Notes from Colombia

Encapsulated Modernity

Escaping Modernity

Opening Thoughts

Chapter-15

A Spectral Haunting of Society: Longue Durèe Archaeologies of Capitalism and Antimarkets in Colonial Guatemala

Rethinking Capitalism: Grounding the Abstracted Capitalist Solidity and Questioning the Uniqueness of Capitalism and Its Effects

Markets, Antimarkets, and (New) Materialist Archaeologies of Capitalism

Background to the Southern Maya Region.

Markets and Antimarkets in Mesoamerica and the Maya Region over the Longue Durèe

Local Manifestations of (Anti)market Effects over the Longue Durèe: Archaeology and History at San Pedro Aguacatepeque

Markets and Meshworks Within Spanish colonial Antimarkets: Sugar and Alcohol at Aguacatepeque

(Anti)Market Dependence in Colonial Guatemala

Chapter-16

The Politics of Work, "Poor Whites," and Plantation Capitalism in Barbados

Capitalism and the Plantation

"On the Fringes of Barbadian Society": Positioning the "Poor Whites"

"Folly and Habitual Idleness": Economic (In)Activity

Working In and Out of Capital

Chapter-17

Sugar Economics: A Visual Economy of the Plantation Landscape in Colonial Dominica

Caribbean Crosscurrents

Sugarloaf Estate in a Visual Economy

A Visual Economy in Circulation

Exposing the Visual Economy from Below

Material Conditions at Sugarloaf

Part VI

Africa

Chapter-18

An Archaeology of Predation. Capitalism and the Coloniality of Power in Equatorial Guinea (Central Africa)

Theory and Politics

Towards an Archaeology of Predation

Before Predation

The European Contact

A Certain Degree of Civilization

Civilization and Savagery

Chapter-19

The Ruins of French Imperialism: An Archaeology of Rural Dislocations in Twentieth-Century Senegal

"Strange Farmers" and Familiar Strangers

(French) Imperial Decay: Debates and Debris

Peanut Capitalism and Colonial Governance in Senegal

Archaeologies of Empire: Peasant Worlds Decomposed and Recomposed

Imperial Ruination: The Precariousness of Dislocation

Conclusion: Peasant Futures in Ruins

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

3-319-12760-8

OCLC:

910553430