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Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods
from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean
rare information on private lives from the historical record. The
chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical
research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the
public and private domains and the significance of these
connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both
historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of
different sources-e.g., public records, personal journals, material
culture, the built environment, letters, public performances,
etc.-can reveal different types of information about past cultural
contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and
society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes,
factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address
the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of
bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing
so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public
settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within,
adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.
Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods
from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean
rare information on private lives from the historical record. The
chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical
research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the
public and private domains and the significance of these
connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both
historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of
different sources-e.g., public records, personal journals, material
culture, the built environment, letters, public performances,
etc.-can reveal different types of information about past cultural
contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and
society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes,
factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address
the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of
bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing
so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public
settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within,
adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.
Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia investigates the
economic and social power that surrounded the production and use of
tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia and the difficulty of
correlating objects with cultural identities. A common artifact in
colonial period sites, previous publications on this subject have
focused on the decorations on the pipes or which ethnic group
produced and used the pipes, "European," "African," or "Indian."
This book weaves together new interpretations, analytical
techniques, classification schemes, historical background, and
archaeological methods and theory. Special attention is paid to the
subfield of African diaspora research to display the complexities
of understanding this class of material culture. This fascinating
study is accessible to the undergraduate reader, as well as to
graduate students and scholars.
This volume focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a
fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement
of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that
exchange. The distinguished contributors discuss trade on a range
of scales--from a solitary confinement cell to trans-oceanic
networks--in settings around the world and over the past 3000
years. They address themes such as exchange as a communicative act,
the ways in which exchange transforms the relationship between
people and things, the significance of agency and power in contexts
of trade, and how sites of consumption and discard speak to
processes of exchange. The volume merges traditional archaeological
concerns about trade and exchange with more contemporary issues of
agency, identity and social meaning.
This volume focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a
fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement
of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that
exchange. The distinguished contributors discuss trade on a range
of scales-from a solitary confinement cell to trans-oceanic
networks-in settings around the world and over the past 3000 years.
They address themes such as exchange as a communicative act, the
ways in which exchange transforms the relationship between people
and things, the significance of agency and power in contexts of
trade, and how sites of consumption and discard speak to processes
of exchange. The volume merges traditional archaeological concerns
about trade and exchange with more contemporary issues of agency,
identity and social meaning.
Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia investigates the
economic and social power that surrounded the production and use of
tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia and the difficulty of
correlating objects with cultural identities. A common artifact in
colonial period sites, previous publications on this subject have
focused on the decorations on the pipes or which ethnic group
produced and used the pipes, "European," "African," or "Indian."
This book weaves together new interpretations, analytical
techniques, classification schemes, historical background, and
archaeological methods and theory. Special attention is paid to the
subfield of African diaspora research to display the complexities
of understanding this class of material culture. This fascinating
study is accessible to the undergraduate reader, as well as to
graduate students and scholars.
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