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Highlighting the strong relationship between New England's Nipmuc
people and their land from the pre-contact period to the present
day, this book helps demonstrate that the history of Native
Americans did not end with the arrival of Europeans. This is the
rich result of a twenty-year collaboration between indigenous and
non-indigenous authors, who use their own example to argue that
Native peoples need to be integral to any research project focused
on indigenous history and culture. The stories traced in this book
centre around three Nipmuc archaeological sites in
Massachusetts-the seventeenth century town of Magunkaquog, the
Sarah Boston Farmstead in Hassanamesit Woods, and the Cisco
Homestead on the Hassanamisco Reservation. The authors bring
together indigenous oral histories, historical documents, and
archaeological evidence to show how the Nipmuc people outlasted
armed conflict and Christianization efforts instigated by European
colonists. Exploring key issues of continuity, authenticity, and
identity, Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration
provides a model for research projects that seek to incorporate
indigenous knowledge and scholarship.
No examination of contemporary urban communities would be complete
without the discussion of class identity. But how did class
identity inform the urban communities of yesteryear? Taking
Newport, Rhode Island in the eighteenth century and Lowell,
Massachusetts in the nineteenth century, at the peak of their
economic powers when they represented some of the purist forms of
capitalist production in North America, as case studies, this book
explores the material and biological manifestations of class
identity. Stephen Mrozowski uses a combination of documentary
research, material cultural studies, and environmental archaeology
to probe the lives of artisans, merchants, and mill workers in
these urban communities. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to
fully examine burgeoning notions of class, he offers significant
insights into the factors shaping those notions. This engaging
study, supported throughout by tables, illustrations and graphs, is
required reading for all students of urban history and historical
archaeology.
Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was
exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to
populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings
came to represent primitive people still living in a state without
civilization and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies
outside the Western world had developed complex methods of history
making and documentation, including epic poetry and the use of
physical and mental mnemonic devices. Even so, the deeply engrained
concept of prehistory-deeply entrenched in European minds up to the
beginning of the twenty-first century-continues to deny history and
historical identify to peoples throughout the world. The fourteen
essays, by notable archaeologists of the Americas, Africa, Europe,
and Asia, provide authoritative examples of how the concept of
prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the
West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories
set within the idiom of deep histories-accepting ancient
pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human
history.
No examination of contemporary urban communities would be complete
without the discussion of class identity. But how did class
identity inform the urban communities of yesteryear? Taking
Newport, Rhode Island in the eighteenth century and Lowell,
Massachusetts in the nineteenth century, at the peak of their
economic powers when they represented some of the purist forms of
capitalist production in North America, as case studies, this book
explores the material and biological manifestations of class
identity. Stephen Mrozowski uses a combination of documentary
research, material cultural studies, and environmental archaeology
to probe the lives of artisans, merchants, and mill workers in
these urban communities. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to
fully examine burgeoning notions of class, he offers significant
insights into the factors shaping those notions. This engaging
study, supported throughout by tables, illustrations and graphs, is
required reading for all students of urban history and historical
archaeology.
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