Archaeologies of the British in Latin America

Charles E. Orser, Jr is currently a Research Professor at Vanderbilt University. He is an anthropologically trained historical archaeologist who works in post-Columbian history, “modern-world archaeology.” His primary research interests lie in social theory, the archaeological analysis of social inequality and the material conditions of modernity. His research activities concentrate on the dispossessed and overlooked in history and to date he has investigated Native American (American Plains and Midwest) African (American South and Brazil) and Irish material conditions (Republic of Ireland). He is the founder and editor of International Journal of Historical Archaeology and the author of several books on historical archaeology.

• Archaeological Research and the British in Latin America.- Kaxil Uinic: Archaeology at a San Pedro Maya Village in Belize.- Portrait of a Port: The Objects of Industry in Nineteenth-Century Acajutla, El Salvador (1805-1900).- The Nineteenth-Century British Ceramics Trade to Southwestern South America: An Initial Characterization of the Archaeological Evidence from Chile.- Re-centering the Narrative: British Colonial Memory and the San Pedro Maya.- An English House in Alexandra Colony, Santa Fe, Argentina, 1870-85.- From the Canopy to the Caye: Two of Britain's Colonial Ventures in Nineteenth-Century Belize.- You Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee: Consumer Culture at the Nineteenth-Century Refugee Village at Tikal, Guatemala.- Landscape of Royalization: A British Military Outpost on Roatán Island, Honduras.- Railways: Landmarks and Scars in the Atlantic Rainforest.- Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution and Building Construction Systems: Edward Taylor and his Failed Project in Argentina, 1852.- Social and Environmental Impacts of British Colonial Rum Production at Betty’s Hope Plantation, Antigua.- The British in Latin America: Material Evidence of Empire and Beyond.