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Author | : Aron L. Crowell |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1475792794 |
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This fascinating monograph employs a world system model as the basis for archaeological investigation of Russian America that relates local findings to global patterns. Author Aron Crowell examines Russian, Spanish, and American historical sources along with the archaeological evidence to uncover a preliterate culture that left no written record of its contact with European colonial powers. Crowell's particular subject is the indigenous Qikertarmiut people of Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska. The special case of this tribe serves as a microcosm of the history of colonialism, demonstrating how early European capitalism impacted and, in some cases, destroyed indigenous societies.
Author | : Yannis Hamilakis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2016-06-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1315434202 |
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The contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its relationship to power, and explore how archaeologists can become more overtly agents of social change for individuals and communities.
Author | : Sarah K. Croucher |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2011-08-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1461401925 |
Download The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts: Postcolonial Historical Archaeologies explores the complex interplay of colonial and capital formations throughout the modern world. The authors present a critical approach to this topic, trying to shift discourses in the theoretical framework of historical archaeology of capitalism and colonialism through the use of postcolonial theory. This work does not suggest a new theoretical framework as such, but rather suggests the importance of revising key theoretical terms employed within historical archaeology, arguing for new engagements with postcolonial theory of relevance to all historical archaeologists as the field de-centers from its traditional locations. Examining case studies from North America, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe, the chapters offer an unusually broad ranging geography of historical archaeology, with each focused on the interplay between the particularisms of colonial structures and the development of capitalism and wider theoretical discussions. Every author also draws attention to the ramifications of their case studies in the contemporary world. With its cohesive theoretical framework this volume is a key resource for those interested in decolonizing historical archaeology in theory and praxis, and for those interested in the development of modern global dynamics.
Author | : Tim Champion |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134806787 |
Download Centre and Periphery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There has recently been much interest among geographers, historians and political theorists in concepts of centre and periphery. In this book a wide range of studies consider how such concepts can be used to clarify our understanding of pre-capitalist societies.
Author | : Mark P. Leone |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2015-05-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319127608 |
Download Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new edition of Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism shows where the study of capitalism leads archaeologists, scholars and activists. Essays cover a range of geographic, colonial and racist contexts around the Atlantic basin: Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, the North Atlantic, Europe and Africa. Here historical archaeologists use current capitalist theory to show the results of creating social classes, employing racism and beginning and expanding the global processes of resource exploitation. Scholars in this volume also do not avoid the present condition of people, discussing the lasting effects of capitalism’s methods, resistance to them, their archaeology and their point to us now. Chapters interpret capitalism in the past, the processes that make capitalist expansion possible, and the worldwide sale and reduction of people. Authors discuss how to record and interpret these. This book continues a global historical archaeology, one that is engaged with other disciplines, peoples and suppressed political and economic histories. Authors in this volume describe how new identities are created, reshaped and made to appear natural. Chapters in this second edition also continue to address why historical archaeologists study capitalism and the relevance of this work, expanding on one of the important contributions of historical archaeologies of capitalism: critical archaeology.
Author | : Charles E. Orser Jr |
Publisher | : Eliot Werner Publications |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2014-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1733376984 |
Download A Primer on Modern-World Archaeology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Despite its slow development, historical archaeology has been steadily maturing over the past three decades. Archaeologists today are exploring daily life in the post-1500 world at an increasing pace, investigating sites throughout the world--frequently locales where historical archaeology was never before practiced--using a variety of complex theories and perspectives. Given the explosion of worldwide research, it is now possible to create a new historical archaeology: a modern-world archaeology that explicitly explores modern life in all its variations, extending from local to global scales of analysis. Focused on four overarching elements of the post-Columbian world (colonialism, Eurocentrism, racialization, and capitalism), A Primer on Modern-World Archaeology is designed to introduce this new kind of historical archaeology to undergraduates, graduate students, and everyone interested in the material expressions of how the present world came to be. Major perspectives are presented in accessible language and study questions are provided at the end of each chapter.
Author | : Sarah Cowie |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1441983066 |
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How do people experience power within capitalist societies? Research presented here explicitly addresses the notion of pluralistic power, which encompasses both productive and oppressive forms of power and acknowledges that nuanced and multifaceted power relations can exist in combination with binary dynamics such as domination and resistance. This volume addresses growing interests in linking past and present power relationships engendered by capitalism and in conducting historical archaeology as anthropology. The Plurality of Power: Industrial Capitalism and the Nineteenth-Century Company Town of Fayette, Michigan, explores the subtle distribution of power within American industrial capitalism through a case study of a company town. Issues surrounding power and agency are explored in regard to three heuristic categories of power. In the first category, the company imposed a system of structural, class-based power that is most visible in hierarchical differences in pay and housing, as well as consumer behavior. A second category addresses disciplinary activities surrounding health and the human body, as observed in the built environment, medical artifacts, disposal patterns of industrial waste, incidence of intestinal parasites, and unequal access to healthcare. The third ensemble of power relations is heterarcical and entwined with non-economic capital (social, symbolic, and cultural). Individuals and groups drew upon different forms of capital to bolster social status and express identity both within and apart from the corporate hierarchy. The goal in combining these diverse ideas is to explore the plurality of power relationships in past industrial contexts and to assert their relevance in the anthropology of capitalism.
Author | : James A. Nyman |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2019-06-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813057108 |
Download The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Emphasizing the important social relationships that form among people who participate in small-scale economic transactions, contributors to this volume explore often-overlooked networks of intimate and shadow economies—terms used to describe trade that takes place outside formal market systems. Case studies from a variety of historical contexts around the world reveal the ways such transactions created community and identity, subverted class and power relations, and helped people adapt to new social realities. In Maine, woven baskets sold by Native American artisans to Euroamerican consumers supported Native strategies for cultural survival and agency. Alcohol exchanged by Scandinavian merchants for furs and skins enabled their indigenous trading partners to expand social webs that contested colonialism. Moonshine production in Appalachia was an integral part of economic exchanges in isolated mountain communities. Caribbean and American plantations contain evidence of interactions, exchanges, and attachments between enslaved communities and poor whites that defied established racial boundaries. From brothel workers in Boston to seal hunters in Antarctica, the examples in this volume show how historical archaeologists can use the concept of intimate economies to uncover deeply meaningful connections that exist beyond the traditional framework of global capitalism.
Author | : Victor Jean Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
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Download The Woolgar Goldfield's Industrial Archaeology of Capitalism 1879-1939 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The customary feature of historical mining sites in Far North tropical Queensland is one of ephemerality. Therefore, the chance to study the Woolgar, a frontier goldfield of similar characteristics to other minesites but with vestiges of industrial archaeology still in situ, was an opportunity not to be missed. Furthermore, the Woolgar's gold rush of 1880 later transpired to be the last in Australia's nomadic age as better financed mining companies with more sophisticated technology were able to handle the complex ores being mined at the deeper levels. Nonetheless, the end of the adventurous nomadic age is seen as Australia emerging from a mercantile economy to that of a self-governing capitalist society even though it was on the periphery of a World System regulated by an ongoing financial restriction. Such an exigent economic and technological environment required adoption of a postprocessual methodology with adaptable components of inquiry and analysis such as had previously been instrumental in deciphering the archaeology of other northern Queensland mine sites. Thus a variation on Giddens' theory of Structuration has been used as the analytical framework for the Woolgar. The industrial archaeologies of the goldfield that adapted the surrounding landscape and modifications in technology are the visualisations of Giddens' double hermeneutic of exponential agency that are also seen as the portals to past lifeways. The example of agency within Structuration's duality of structure highlights the unfolding processes of individuals, work groups and social collectives as 'being in the world'. More to the point, examples of agency framed within these motivating structures can only be considered if evidence of change is demonstrated in the archaeological record. Giddens' general classification of a site's Allocative and Authoritative Resources and appropriate judicious analogies produce premisses regarding the Woolgar's economic worldview and the outdated Cornish technological diffusion affecting the Woolgar's production. Past archaeological research of base metal mining operations have a ready source of historical economic material that provides both local and worldview backgrounds of a study. Gold on the other hand and contrary to its mystique has an opaque interpretive milieu requiring a more intensified research. Although gold transformed Australia's world stature, the analogy of recurring restrictive elements of the precious metal is seen as not boding well for future economic alliances. While this thesis applauds new directions in Historical and Industrial Archaeology it still echoes earlier calls to include the economic background to enhance technological studies that have been considered the gateway to past cultural lifeways since the middle of the last century. Nevertheless, this dissertation questions inappropriate analogies from other cultures such as the use of North American archaeological ceramic assemblages to analyse early Australian social mores. It additionally suggests that Australian culture does not need to look to the British Class System to analyse its frontier mining archaeology. Instead, this thesis advocates a postprocessualist humanistic approach to analysing the archaeology of Australia through the wider lens of Structuration.
Author | : Charles E. Orser Jr. |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1475789882 |
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This unique book offers a theoretical framework for historical archaeology that explicitly relies on network theory. Charles E. Orser, Jr., demonstrates the need to examine the impact of colonialism, Eurocentrism, capitalism, and modernity on all archaeological sites inhabited after 1492 and shows how these large-scale forces create a link among all the sites. Orser investigates the connections between a seventeenth-century runaway slave kingdom in Palmares, Brazil and an early nineteenth-century peasant village in central Ireland. Studying artifacts, landscapes, and social inequalities in these two vastly different cultures, the author explores how the archaeology of fugitive Brazilian slaves and poor Irish farmers illustrates his theoretical concepts. His research underscores how network theory is largely unknown in historical archaeology and how few historical archaeologists apply a global perspective in their studies. A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World features data and illustrations from two previously unknown sites and includes such intriguing findings as the provenance of ancient Brazilian smoking pipes that will be new to historical archaeologists.