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Author:   Mark Warner ,  Margaret Purser ,  Kalie Crews ,  Mark Warner
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.712kg
ISBN:  

9780803277281

ISBN 10:   0803277288
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures      List of Tables     Acknowledgments     Introduction: Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens     Margaret Purser and Mark Warner Part 1. Economics and Economies 1. Boomtimes and Boomsurfers: Toward a Material Culture of Western Expansion     Margaret Purser 2. The Archaeology of San Francisco’s Gold Rush Waterfront, 1849–1851: Building a New Model of the 19th-Century Pacific Rim Maritime “Frontier”     James P. Delgado 3. “Where Ornament and Function Are So Agreeably Combined”: A New Look at Consumer Choice Studies Using English Ceramic Wares at Hudson’s Bay Company, Fort Vancouver     Robert J. Cromwell 4. Approaching Transient Labor through Archaeology     Mark Walker Part 2. Archaeologies of Race and Racism 5. “Can We Separate the ‘Indian’ from the ‘American’ in the Historical Archaeology of the American Indian?”     Joe Watkins 6. Rock Hearths and Rural Wood Camps in Jīnshān/Gām Saan 金山: National Register of Historic Places Evaluations of 19th-Century Chinese Logging Operations at Heavenly Ski Resort in the Lake Tahoe Basin         Kelly J. Dixon and Carrie Smith 7. Archaeology of the Chinese and Japanese Diasporas in North America and a Framework for Comparing the Material Lives of Transnational Migrant Communities     Douglas E. Ross 8. Digging Yesterday: The Archaeology of Living Memory at Amache     Bonnie J. Clark Part 3. Reassessing the West 9. The Cultural Context of Commerce: Historical Anthropology and Historical Silences along the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail     Minette Church 10. Our Dangerous Discipline: Doing Historical Archaeology in Utah     Timothy James Scarlett 11. The Mild Wild West: Settling Communities and Settling Households in Turn of the Century Idaho     Mark Warner Epilogue: Digging Holes in the American West     Matthew Johnson Contributors     Index    

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These essays, with their focus on the American West, argue successfully the importance of historic archaeology to the scholarship and the understanding of Western expansion. The collection gives weight to the historic archaeology and promotes continued excavations into those sites that remain within our cultural memory. -Matt Donovan, Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society -- Matt Donovan * Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society * Historical Archaeology through a Western Lens offers an unprecedented overview of the broad range of research in which archaeologists of the West have been engaged. -Todd A. Hanson, Western Historical Quarterly -- Todd A. Hanson * Western Historical Quarterly * Many of the contributions in this volume reflect a refreshing mix of work that is both academic and tied to public archaeology, compliance, and the National Register of Historic Places significance of historical sites. This will appeal to students, academics, and pragmatic practitioners of historical archaeology who wish to improve their research, evaluation, and interpretation. These chapters challenge the mythic history of the West in new ways and bring many new questions and intriguing directions for research by generations of future archaeologists. -Douglas C. Wilson, Historical Archaeology -- Douglas C. Wilson * Historical Archaeology * Warner and Purser have assembled a significant collection of archaeological essays that together speak powerfully to the ability of historical archaeology to contribute to the history of the U.S. West-and for the historical archaeology of the U.S. West to contribute to archaeology writ large. -Barbara L. Voss, associate professor of anthropology at Stanford University and coeditor of The Archaeology of Chinese Immigrant and Chinese American Communities -- Barbara L. Voss Well-written and broadly scoped, Warner and Purser have produced a compelling volume that presents excellent scholarship undertaken recently about the American West. . . . Keep it close at hand-the volume promises to be a much-reached-for resource on every archaeologists' bookshelf. -Carolyn L. White, associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology and Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation at the University of Nevada, Reno -- Carolyn L. White

Warner and Purser have assembled a significant collection of archaeological essays that together speak powerfully to the ability of historical archaeology to contribute to the history of the U.S. West-and for the historical archaeology of the U.S. West to contribute to archaeology writ large. - Barbara L. Voss, associate professor of anthropology at Stanford University and coeditor of The Archaeology of Chinese Immigrant and Chinese American Communities Well-written and broadly scoped, Warner and Purser have produced a compelling volume that presents excellent scholarship undertaken recently about the American West... Keep it close at hand-the volume promises to be a much-reached-for resource on every archaeologists' bookshelf. - Carolyn L. White, associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology and Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation at the University of Nevada, Reno

Warner and Purser have assembled a significant collection of archaeological essays that together speak powerfully to the ability of historical archaeology to contribute to the history of the U.S. West-and for the historical archaeology of the U.S. West to contribute to archaeology writ large. -Barbara L. Voss, associate professor of anthropology at Stanford University and coeditor of The Archaeology of Chinese Immigrant and Chinese American Communities -- Barbara L. Voss Well-written and broadly scoped, Warner and Purser have produced a compelling volume that presents excellent scholarship undertaken recently about the American West... Keep it close at hand-the volume promises to be a much-reached-for resource on every archaeologists' bookshelf. -Carolyn L. White, associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology and Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation at the University of Nevada, Reno -- Carolyn L. White

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Mark Warner is a professor of anthropology and department chair at the University of Idaho. He is the author of Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity. Margaret Purser is a professor of anthropology and department chair at Sonoma State University.   

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