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Interpreting the Early Modern World Transatlantic Perspectives

:	Mary C. Beaudry, James Symonds
:	Mary C. Beaudry, James Symonds
:	Interpreting the Early Modern World Transatlantic Perspectives
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9780387707594
:	1
:	CHF 90.20
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:	Altertum
:	English

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This volume is based on a session at a 2005 Society for Historical Archaeology meeting. The organizers assembled historical archaeologists from the UK and the US, whose work arises out of differing intellectual traditions. The authors exchange ideas about what their colleagues have written, and construct dialogues about theories and practices that inform interpretive archaeology on either side of the Atlantic, ending with commentary by two well-known names in interpretive archaeology.

	Preface	6
	Contents	8
	Contributors	10
	Introduction: Transatlantic Dialogues and Convergences	12
	References	21
	Part I Country Estates/Landscapes	24
	1 An American Landscape Conversation	25
	Introduction	25
	An Interpretive Pathway to Delawares Chateau Country	27
	Encounters in the Contemporary Delaware Landscape	29
	Databases and Interpretive Landscape Archaeology	31
	From Landscape of Poverty and Depression to Dynastic Myth of Past, Present, and Future	33
	Of Dynasties	34
	Beyond Master Narrative	37
	Conclusions: In Search of Landscapes within Landscapes	40
	On Marriage and Death	40
	On Cows and Butter and Pots and Pans	41
	On Family and Home	41
	On Acquisition and Transformation	43
	On the Future	43
	References	44
	2 Estate Landscapes in England: Interpretive Archaeologies	46
	Introduction	46
	The Character of Landed Estates in England	47
	Phases of Development	48
	The Language of Landscape	53
	Holkham and Monticello: Style and Meaning in England and America	59
	Conclusion: Interpretation and Experience	60
	References	61
	Part II Archaeology of NineteenthCentury Cities and the Lives of Working People	64
	3 Beyond Stories: A Quantitative Approach to the Archaeology of Households, Neighborhoods, and Cities	65
	Prologue	65
	A New Approach	67
	Scale in Urban Historical Archaeology	69
	Quantitative Analyses of Households, Neighborhoods, and Cities	71
	The Potential of Neighborhood Archaeology	76
	Rethinking Redundancy and Facing the Unknown	78
	References	80
	4 Stooping to Pick Up Stones: A ReflectionINTnl	on Urban Archaeology
	Down at the Dig	82
	In a Back Street	84
	The Trouble with Material Culture	86
	Adrian and Mary, and Winchester, Too	87
	On the Road: West Oakland and Sheffield	93
	Framing the Questions	94
	Bacon and Eggs	95
	Concluding Thoughts	97
	References	101
	Part III Contesting Race, Constructing Memory	104
	5 Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland	105
	The First African to Vote in an American Legislature	107
	Africans in Early Maryland	110
	The Strange Career of Burial 18	114
	Conclusion	124
	References	126
	6 ``Sorting Stones'': Monuments, Memory and ResistanceINTnl	in the Scottish Highlands
	The Practice of Social Memory: An Interpretive Approach	135
	Topographies of Loss and Displacement: Negotiating Relationships Between People and Land	138
	Thrown Like Chaff in the Wind: Excavation as a Site for the Production and Negotiation of Memory	144
	Conclusions: Interpreting and Contesting History	152
	References	155
	Part IV Gender, Embodiment, Life Course, Materiality, and Identity	158
	7 Stitching Women's Lives: Interpreting the ArtifactsINTnl	of Sewing and Needlework
	Materiality, Microhistory, and Historical Archaeology	161
	Artifacts, Situations, Contexts	163
	Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Material Culture	164
	Not Just a Thimble	167
	When Sewing Implements Become Personal Effects	167
	Closing Thoughts	170
	References	171
	8 The Intimacy of Death: Interpreting Gender and the Life Course in Medieval and Early Modern Burials	175
	Gender and Material Culture: A Trans-Atlantic Discord	175
	Embodiment and the Life Course: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues	177
	Burial Archaeology: From Medieval to Early Modern	178
	A Mothers Grief: The Intimacy of Death	183
	The Thread of Life	185
	References	187
	Part V Industrial Housing/Landscapes	190
	9 Mrs. Perrin's ``Tranklements'': Community Life and Class Distinction in (Post)Industrial-Era Cheshire	191
	Introduction	191
	The Materiality of Community Life	191
	The Alderley Sandhills Project	193
	The Debris of Daily Life	196
	That's Just a Family Thing, You Know	200
	A Life Recorded	204
	Conclusion	206
	References	207
	10 Attitudes to Religion, Education, and Status in Worker Settlements: The Architectural and Archaeological Evidence from Wales	210
	Welsh Worker Settlements	210
	Early Industrial Settlements in Wales	213
	Swansea, Blaenavon, and Amlwch	213
	Workers' Housing and Settlements in Swansea, Blaenavon, and Amlwch	214
	Swansea	214
	Swansea Settlements	214
	Blaenavon and Swansea Settlements	215
	Blaenavon	216
	Amlwch	221
	The Use of Common Land at Swansea and Blaenavon	221
	Works Schools Provision at Blaenavon, Swansea, and Amlwch	225
	Contrasting Capitalists and Workers Houses	227
	Houses	228
	Religious Buildings	229
	The Worker Chapels	230
	The Worker Churches and Chapels Provided by Industrialists	230
	The Industrialist Churches and Chapels	230
	The Schools	235
	Conclusions	236
	References	238
	Part VI Commentary	239
	11 Revelations: Comments on InterpretingINTnl	the Early Modern World
	References	244
	Subject Index	245