The Recovery of Meaning
Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States
edited by Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter
This collection uses the historical archaeology of the eastern United States to explore social life, religion, and ideology. A new prologue by Mark Leone defines the elements of culture and identifies those parts of the concept that are important to historical archaeologists.
Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1988, this collection uses the historical archaeology of the eastern United States to explore social life, religion, and ideology. A new prologue by Mark Leone defines the elements of culture and identifies those parts of the concept that are important to historical archaeologists. Leone considers public displays of heritage and the role of archaeology in their creation.
Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition: Where Is Culture to be Found by Historical Archaeologists? Mark P. Leone Introduction: Issues in Historical Archaeology Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr. I. Sixteenth-Century Spanish Settlement in the Southeast Santa Elena: Threshold of Conquest Stanley South Saints and Soldiers at Santa Catalina: Hispanic Designs for Colonial America David Hurst Thomas II. Native Americans and Europeans in Seventeenth-Century Southern New England Sociopolitical Implications of Mortuary Ritual Remains in Seventeenth-Century Native Southern New England Elise M. Brenner From Myth to History, or Why King Philip's Ghost Walks Abroad Constance A. Crosby III. The Archaeology of the Georgian Worldview and the Eighteenth-Century Beginnings of Modernity Material Culture and Worldview in Colonial Anglo-America James F. Deetz The Georgian Order as the Order of Merchant Capitalism in Annapolis, Maryland Mark P. Leone Craft and Culture Change in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Barbara J. Little Asymmetry and Recursive Meanings in the Eighteenth Century: The Morris Pound House Ann M. Palkovich IV. Nineteenth-Century Plantation Slavery and Its Aftermaths Toward a Theory of Power for Historical Archaeology: Plantations and Space Charles E. Orser, Jr. An Archaeological Framework for Slavery and Emancipation, 1740-1880 Theresa A. Singleton V. The Archaeology of Industrial Capitalism and Modern America Meaning and the Built Environment: A Symbolic Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Urban Site Texas B. Anderson and Robert G. Moore Steps to an Archaeology of Capitalism: Material Change and Class Analysis Robert Paynter Dialogues with the Dead: Ideology and the Cemetery Randall H. McGuire
- Edited by Mark P. Leone
- Edited by Parker B. Potter
From the reviews "[A] significant book . . . . [T]his work offers much of interest to interpreters of the American past." Marley Brown in Museum News "This work admirably demonstrates the value of structural and symbolic analysis for the recovery of meaning. For that reason it is a valuable addition to [the] anthropological literature." Elizabeth J. Reitz in Georgia Historical Quarterly "This collection . . . tackles connections between actor and object within the context of the historical archaeology of European expansion and development in North America." Leslie Stewart-Abernathy in American Antiquity "[A] landmark demonstration of the progress that has been made in interpretation. . . . [T]he book is itself a small gem of material culture." Ezra Zubrow in Science
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