Historical Archaeology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Martin.

Contributor:

Silliman, Stephen W.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2006.

Summary:

"Historical Archaeology presents an impressive and definitive overview of the field. Many voices speak here from around the world, and from across the breadth of topics that drive historical archaeology today." -Randall McGuire, Binghamton University, SUNY "Hall and Silliman have assembled a compelling summation of historical archaeology. This collection goes beyond description to tackle important issues that are currently being debated in the discipline. Historical Archaeology will stimulate discussion about the direction of the field and should become a standard text." -Paul Shackel, University of Maryland.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Archaeology of the Modern world

Part I: Dimensions of Practice

2 Environments of History: Biological dimensions of Historical Archaeology

3 Material Culture and Text: Exploring the Spaces Within and Between

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

5 Critical Archaeology: Politics Past and Present

Part II: Themes in Interpretation

6 Engendered Archaeology: Men, Women, and Others

7 Ideology and the Material Culture of Life and Death

8 Struggling with Labor, Working with Identities

9 Exploring the Institution: Reform, Confinement, Social Change

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

Part III: World Systems and Local Living

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

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

13 Becoming American: Small Things Remembered

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

15 Pacific Encounters, or Beyond the Islands of History

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

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Hall, Martin Historical Archaeology

ISBN:

9781405152341

OCLC:

234243624