Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation

AvCharles E. Orser, Jr.

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Engelska, 2013

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Scholars who investigate race-a label based upon real or perceived physical differences-realize that they face a formidable task. The concept has been contested and condoned, debated and denied throughout modern history. Presented with the full understanding of the complexity of the issue, Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation concentrates on the archaeological analysis of race and how race is determined in the archaeological record.Most archaeologists, even those dealing with recent history, have usually avoided the subject of race, yet Charles E. Orser, Jr., contends that its study and its implications are extremely important for the science of archaeology. Drawing upon his considerable experience as an archaeologist, and using a combination of practice theory as interpreted by Pierre Bourdieu and spatial theory as presented by Henri Lefebvre, Orser argues for an explicit archaeology of race and its interpretation.The author reviews past archaeological usages of race, including a case study from early nineteenth-century Ireland, and explores the way race was used to form ideas about the Mound Builders, the Celts, and Atlantis. He concludes with a proposal that historical archaeology-cast as modern-world archaeology-should take the lead in the archaeological analysis of race because its purview is the recent past, that period during which our conceptions of race developed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-04-19
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780812203257
Förlag:University of Pennsylvania Press
Serie:Archaeology, Culture, and Society

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Charles E. Orser, Jr., is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University and Adjunct Professor of Archaeology at the National University of Ireland in Galway. He is author of A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World, Historical Archaeology, and The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation. He is also the editor of several books, including Images of the Recent Past: Reading in Historical Archaeology, and Race and the Archaeology of Identity.

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"An extraordinarily stimulating and provocative book, rich in ides and suggested new directions for archaeology."-Choice "Charles Orser outlines a research strategy for studying poverty and racism that is worthy of historical archaeology... Much of this book is devoted to dealing with how people come to be worthy of being despised, usually by being seen as belonging to biologically inferior groups."-Journal of Anthropological Research

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsPreface1. Problematizing Race in Archaeology2. The Prehistory of Race and Archaeological Interpretation, Part I: Inventing Race for Archaeology3. The Prehistory of Race and Archaeological Interpretation, Part II: Ethnicity over Race4. Archaeological Interpretation and the Practice of Race5. Materiality in the Practice of Race6. A Case Study of Archaeology and the Practice of Race from Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland7. Race, Practice, and ArchaeologyReferences CitedIndex