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Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. For the last 200 years, New York City has obtained water through a network of nineteen reservoirs and controlled lakes, some as far as 125-miles away. Engineering this water system required the demolition of rural communities, removal of cemeteries, and rerouting of roadways and waterways. The ruination is ongoing. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.
Institutions pervade social life. They express community goals and
values by defining the limits of socially acceptable behavior.
Institutions are often vested with the resources, authority, and
power to enforce the orthodoxy of their time. But institutions are
also arenas in which both orthodoxies and authority can be
contested. Between power and opposition lies the individual
experience of the institutionalized. Whether in a boarding school,
hospital, prison, almshouse, commune, or asylum, their experiences
can reflect the positive impact of an institution or its greatest
failings. This interplay of orthodoxy, authority, opposition, and
individual experience are all expressed in the materiality of
institutions and are eminently subject to archaeological
investigation. A few archaeological and historical publications, in
widely scattered venues, have examined individual institutional
sites. Each work focused on the development of a specific
establishment within its narrowly defined historical context; e.g.,
a fort and its role in a particular war, a schoolhouse viewed in
terms of the educational history of its region, an asylum or prison
seen as an expression of the prevailing attitudes toward the
mentally ill and sociopaths. In contrast, this volume brings
together twelve contributors whose research on a broad range of
social institutions taken in tandem now illuminates the experience
of these institutions. Rather than a culmination of research on
institutions, it is a landmark work that will instigate vigorous
and wide-ranging discussions on institutions in Western life, and
the power of material culture to both enforce and negate cultural
norms.
Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal
remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the
most commonly encountered North American species, "Identifying and
Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual" provides an important new
reference for students, avocational archaeologists, and even
naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts. Using the basic principles
outlined here, the bones of any vertebrate animal, including
humans, can be identified and their relevance to common research
questions can be better understood.
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