Overview

American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. The authors use goods used or made in America to illuminate issues such as tenancy, racism, sexism, and regional bias. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects, from tin cans and bottles to namebrand items, from fish bones to machinery, to analyze the way American capitalism works. Their cogent analyses take us literally from broken dishes to the international economy. Especially notable chapters examine how an archaeologist formulates questions about exploitation under capitalism, and how the study of artifacts reveals African-American middle class culture and its response to racism.

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Author:   Mark P. Leone ,  Parker B. Potter
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Plenum Publishing Co.,N.Y.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.230kg
ISBN:  

9780306460685

ISBN 10:   0306460688
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   31 December 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Issues in a Historical Archaeology Devoted to Studying Capitalism: Setting Some Terms for Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism; M.P. Leone. Where The Questions Come From: Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism? The Logic of Question and Answer and the Challenge of Systemic Analysis; A. Wylie. Historical Archaeology and Identity in Modern America; P.B. Botter, Jr. The Contested Commons: Archaeologies of Race, Repression, and Resistance in New York City; T.W. Epperson. Integration into Capitalism and Impoverishment: Ex Occidente Lux? An Archaeology of Later Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century West; M. Purser. Archaeology and the Challenges of Capitalist Farm Tenancy in America; C.E. Orser, Jr. 'A Bold and Gorgeous Front': The Contradictions of African America and Consumer Culture; P.R. Mullins. Ceramics from Annapolis, Maryland: A Measure of Time Routines and Work Discipline; M.P. Leone. Beyond North America: Historical, Archaeology, Capitalism; M. Johnson. Index.

Reviews

Matthew Johnson's commentary does an excellent job of pulling the articles ... together, exploring the problems that they raise, and placing their concerns in an even broader temporal and spatial context. As he points out, writing a historical archaeology of capitalism is a complex and difficult task. This volume is a welcome and useful contribution to that task.' Journal of Anthropological Research, 56 (2000)

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