Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge / Edition 1

by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Martin Hall, Sian Jones

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415518888
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/20/2012
Series:	One World Archaeology
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sian Jones, Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Martin Hall

Table of Contents

List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, 1. Introduction: archaeology in history, 2. Rethinking historical archaeology, 3. Historical archaeology from a world perspective, 4. Research trends in the historical archaeology of Zimbabwe, 5. The séance of 27 August 1889 and the problem of historical consciousness, 6. Gender, symbolism and power in Iberian societies, 7. The tyranny of the text: lost social strategies in current historical period archaeology in the classical Mediterranean, 8. The imperial context of Romano-British studies and proposals for a new understanding of social change, 9. Class and rubbish, 10. Proto-colonial archaeology: the case of Elizabethan Ireland, 11. West India: iconographic documents from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil, 12. Subaltern voices? Finding the spaces between things and words, 13. On rejecting the concept of socio-economic status in historical archaeology, 14. Historical categories and the praxis of identity: the interpretation of ethnicity in historical archaeology, 15. Lost kingdoms: oral histories, travellers’ tales and archaeology in southern Madagascar, 16. Pidgin English: historical archaeology, cultural exchange and the Chinese in the Rocks, 1890–1930, 17. The formation of ethnic-American identities: Jewish communities in Boston, 18. Maroon, race and gender: Palmares material culture and social relations in a runaway settlement, 19. Black identity and sense of past in Brazilian national culture, Index

Editorial Reviews

'The volume demonstrates its case, and is an important contribution to the development of historical archaeology.' - Post-Medieval Archaeology

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