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This collection of essays draws inspiration from the late James
Deetz's In Small Things Forgotten (1977). Deetz's seminal work
broke new ground by using structuralist theory to show how
artefacts reflected the 'worldviews' or ideologies of their makers
and users, and went on to claim that the American colonial world
had been structured according to a British intellectual blueprint,
the so-called 'Georgian Order'. Thirty years on, this influential
thesis has been substantially revised by more recent scholarship,
but Deetz's central premise, that the systematic study of mundane
material objects such as tombstones, architecture, and furniture,
can render palpable the intangible aspects of human cognition and
belief systems, has become a fundamental tenet of modern historical
archaeology. Drawing upon James Deetz's insight that everyday
objects from the recent past are freighted with social
significance, and that material culture operates alongside language
as a system of communication, the authors present a series of case
studies which unravel specific cultural moments in well-documented
historical periods across the modern world. The very best
historical archaeologies create intimate material histories that
expose constructions of race, class, gender, and have the capacity
to challenge taken-for-granted knowledge and received political
histories. The studies in this volume range in date from the early
17th century to the late 20th century and are unified by the way in
which they employ theory from archaeology and anthropology to
elucidate the complex links between human thought and action. The
authors in this volume make a significant contribution to
archaeological knowledge through their ability to move beyond
simple materialities to create interesting human stories that
transcend purely descriptive show-and-tell accounts of
archaeological sites. Chapters by international scholars from North
America, Europe, and Australia demonstrate the vitality of their
approaches to historical archaeology through a series of compelling
case studies. For the first time to an Anglophone audience this
volume presents the latest research from Finland and Spain.
This collection of essays draws inspiration from the late James
Deetz's In Small Things Forgotten (1977). Deetz's seminal work
broke new ground by using structuralist theory to show how
artefacts reflected the `worldviews' or idealogies of their makers
and users, and claimed that the American colonial world had been
structured according to a British intellectual blueprint, the
so-called `Georgian Order'. His central premise, that the
systematic study of mundane material objects such as tombstones,
architecture, and furniture, can render palpable the intangible
aspects of human cognition and belief systems, has become a
fundamental tenet of modern historical archaeology. Drawing on
James Deetz's insight that everyday objects from the recent past
are `freighted with social significance' and that material culture
operates alongside language as a system of communication, this book
unravels specific cultural moments in well-documented historical
periods across the modern world. These studies range from the early
17th century to the late 20th century and employ theory from
archaeology and anthropology to elucidate the complex links between
human thought and action. The authors, drawn from North America,
Europe, and Australia, make a significant contribution to
archaeological knowledge, moving beyond simple materialities to
create human stories that transcend purely descriptive
show-and-tell accounts of archaeological sites and allow
taken-for-granted constructions of race, class and gender to be
probed and challenged.
When Canadian reality TV producer Jonathan Farb finds out that he
may be dying of a brain tumor on the same day that he catches his
wife having an affair with her obstetrician, he makes a pledge: to
raise his five month-old son Elliot to manhood before his time is
up. Farb's list of parenting goals range from instilling a
religious identification (can a baby be Bar Mitzvahed?), to the
importance of Education (The Birds & The Bees), and onto more
pressing pursuits like amassing capital for his son's inheritance.
Can Farb succeed in getting his reality TV pitch 'Canada's Next
Great Apologist' greenlit despite the opposition of his
antagonistic boss, a pathological fear of public speaking, and his
declining mental and physical health? An energetic and ultimately
poignant literary debut, Failure To Thrive digs deep into the
compromises of marriage, the intensity of parenthood and the love
that propels a father in the face of his own mortality to raise his
son.
This, the sixth volume in the series 'Studies in Contemporary and
Historical Archaeology', assembles a series of innovative studies
in the historical archaeology of graffiti. Contents: 1) Wild Signs:
An Introduction (Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal); 2) Basque Aspen
Carvings: The Biggest Little Secret of Western USA (Joxe
Mallea-Olaetxe); 3) Elbow Grease and Time to Spare: The Place of
Tree Carving (Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal); 4) Magic Markers: The
Evocative Potential of Carvings on Stanton Moor Edge, Derbyshire,
UK (Stella McGuire); 5) Traces of Presence and Pleading: Approaches
to the Study of Graffiti at Tewkesbury Abbey (Kirsty Owen); 6)
Signs of the Times: Nineteenth - Twentieth Century Graffiti in the
Farms of the Yorkshire Wolds (Katherine Giles and Melanie Giles);
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