The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States / Edition 1

The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0971958734
ISBN-13:
9780971958739
Pub. Date:
01/28/2003
Publisher:
Eliot Werner Publications
ISBN-10:
0971958734
ISBN-13:
9780971958739
Pub. Date:
01/28/2003
Publisher:
Eliot Werner Publications
The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States / Edition 1

The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States / Edition 1

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Overview

Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1988, this collection uses the historical archaeology of the eastern United States to explore social life, religion, and ideology. A new prologue by Mark Leone defines the elements of culture and identifies those parts of the concept that are important to historical archaeologists. Leone considers public displays of heritage and the role of archaeology in their creation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780971958739
Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications
Publication date: 01/28/2003
Series: Foundations of Archaeology Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 516
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mark P. Leone, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Parker B. Potter, Jr., Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire

Table of Contents

Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition: Where Is Culture to be Found by Historical Archaeologists? Mark P. Leone Introduction: Issues in Historical Archaeology Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr. I. Sixteenth-Century Spanish Settlement in the Southeast Santa Elena: Threshold of Conquest Stanley South Saints and Soldiers at Santa Catalina: Hispanic Designs for Colonial America David Hurst Thomas II. Native Americans and Europeans in Seventeenth-Century Southern New England Sociopolitical Implications of Mortuary Ritual Remains in Seventeenth-Century Native Southern New England Elise M. Brenner From Myth to History, or Why King Philip's Ghost Walks Abroad Constance A. Crosby III. The Archaeology of the Georgian Worldview and the Eighteenth-Century Beginnings of Modernity Material Culture and Worldview in Colonial Anglo-America James F. Deetz The Georgian Order as the Order of Merchant Capitalism in Annapolis, Maryland Mark P. Leone Craft and Culture Change in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Barbara J. Little Asymmetry and Recursive Meanings in the Eighteenth Century: The Morris Pound House Ann M. Palkovich IV. Nineteenth-Century Plantation Slavery and Its Aftermaths Toward a Theory of Power for Historical Archaeology: Plantations and Space Charles E. Orser, Jr. An Archaeological Framework for Slavery and Emancipation, 1740-1880 Theresa A. Singleton V. The Archaeology of Industrial Capitalism and Modern America Meaning and the Built Environment: A Symbolic Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Urban Site Texas B. Anderson and Robert G. Moore Steps to an Archaeology of Capitalism: Material Change and Class Analysis Robert Paynter Dialogues with the Dead: Ideology and the Cemetery Randall H. Mc Guire

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