Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-01-31
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:571 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Antal sidor:248
Upplaga:1999
Förlag:Springer Science+Business Media
ISBN:9780306460678

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi
Ekonomiska system inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Recensioner i media

'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)

Innehållsförteckning

I. Issues In A Historical Archaeology Devoted To Studying Capitalism.- 1. Setting Some Terms for Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism.- II. Where The Questions Come From.- 2. Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism? The Logic of Question and Answer and the Challenge of Systemic Analysis.- 3. Historical Archaeology and Identity in Modern America.- 4. The Contested Commons: Archaeologies of Race, Repression, and Resistance in New York City.- III. Integration Into Capitalism And Impoverishment.- 5. Ex Occidente Lux? An Archaeology of Later Capitalism in the Nineteenth-Century West.- 6. Archaeology and the Challenges of Capitalist Farm Tenancy in America.- 7. “A Bold and Gorgeous Front”: The Contradictions of African America and Consumer Culture.- 8. Ceramics from Annapolis, Maryland: A Measure of Time Routines and Work Discipline.- IV. Beyond North America.- 9. Historical, Archaeology, Capitalism.