Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

Mark P. Leone, Parker B. Potter Jr. (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

1999
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-46067-8 (ISBN)

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American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects - from tin cans and bottles to namebrand items, from fish bones to machinery - to analyze the way American capitalism works.

American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. The authors use goods used or made in America to illuminate issues such as tenancy, racism, sexism, and regional bias. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects - from tin cans and bottles to namebrand items, from fish bones to machinery - to analyze the way American capitalism works. Their cogent analyses take us literally from broken dishes to the international economy. Especially notable chapters examine how an archaeologist formulates questions about exploitation under capitalism, and how the study of artifacts reveals African-American middle class culture and its response to racism.

I. Issues In A Historical Archaeology Devoted To Studying Capitalism.- 1. Setting Some Terms for Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism.- II. Where The Questions Come From.- 2. Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism? The Logic of Question and Answer and the Challenge of Systemic Analysis.- 3. Historical Archaeology and Identity in Modern America.- 4. The Contested Commons: Archaeologies of Race, Repression, and Resistance in New York City.- III. Integration Into Capitalism And Impoverishment.- 5. Ex Occidente Lux? An Archaeology of Later Capitalism in the Nineteenth-Century West.- 6. Archaeology and the Challenges of Capitalist Farm Tenancy in America.- 7. “A Bold and Gorgeous Front”: The Contradictions of African America and Consumer Culture.- 8. Ceramics from Annapolis, Maryland: A Measure of Time Routines and Work Discipline.- IV. Beyond North America.- 9. Historical, Archaeology, Capitalism.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.1999
Reihe/Serie	Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 248 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-306-46067-X / 030646067X
ISBN-13	978-0-306-46067-8 / 9780306460678
Zustand	Neuware