HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Back from the edge



Libro editado por Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Martin Hall y Siân Jones (1999)


1 Introduction: archaeology in history
Pedro Paulo A.Funari, Siân Jones and Martin Hall

Archaeology in history: problems of definition and subject matter
Dislocation and continuity: historical archaeology and the construction of identity
Theoretical and methodological problems
‘Back from the edge’: towards a world-wide historical archaeology
Power and identity: common themes—diverse contexts
Fragmentation

Archaeology and history: an ambivalent relationship

2 Rethinking historical archaeology
Matthew H.Johnson

The fragmentation of theory
The fragmentation of disciplinarity
The fragmentation of master narratives
The fragmentation of method
One way forward
Conclusion

3 Historical archaeology from a world perspective
Pedro Paulo A.Funari

Historical archaeology, an American discipline
The European outlook
Are there peripheral outlooks?
The revolutionary role of capitalism and a possible international outlook
Non-capitalist features of the modern world: Latin America, a case in point
Towards a world perspective

4 Research trends in the historical archaeology of Zimbabwe
Innocent Pikirayi

Introduction
Definitions and theoretical approaches
Historical archaeology in Zimbabwe
Archaeology, environment and the written sources: the archaeological sites connected with the Torwa/Changamire states
Addressing the problem of Ndebele—British interaction: the archaeology of the Ndebele state and the early colonial period
Merchant capital, trade and states in northern Zimbabwe: the archaeology of the Mutapa state
Conclusions

5 The séance of 27 August 1889 and the problem of historical consciousness
Malcolm Quinn

Archaeologies of domination and resistance

6 Gender, symbolism and power in Iberian societies
Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Trinidad Tortosa

Introduction
Iberians, art and gender
Discussion

7 The tyranny of the text: lost social strategies in current historical period archaeology in the classical Mediterranean
David B.Small

Introduction
Texts and archaeology in classical studies
The issue
A social historian/archaeologist’s reconstruction
The mortuary record
The context of the cemetery and social historians/archaeologists’ models
Discussion
Conclusion

8 The imperial context of Romano-British studies and proposals for a new understanding of social change
Richard Hingley

The imperial context of the theory of Romanization
Proposals for a new understanding of social change
A case study: the roundhouse
Conclusions

9 Class and rubbish
Duncan H.Brown

Class
Medieval rubbish in Southampton
Medieval Southampton
Distribution of pottery types
The value of imported pottery
Conclusion

10 Proto-colonial archaeology: the case of Elizabethan Ireland
Eric Klingelhofer

Earlier Tudor colonization
Elizabethan colonization
Jacobean colonization
Proto-colonial archaeology in Northern Ireland
Conclusions

11 West India: iconographie documents from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil
Maria L.Quartim de Moraes

Introduction
Seventeenth-century travellers: Dutch Brazil
Nineteenth-century travellers: the Enlightenment vision
A way of life: slavery as a relational pattern
Concluding: Brazil as it is

12 Subaltern voices? Finding the spaces between things and words
Martin Hall

13 On rejecting the concept of socio-economic status in historical archaeology
Gregory G.Monks

Introduction
Analytic tools: archaeological
Analytic tools: documentary
A question of aims
Discussion
Issues of identity, nationalism and ethnicity

14 Historical categories and the praxis of identity: the interpretation of ethnicity in historical archaeology
Siân Jones

The problem: the interplay of text and material culture in the interpretation of ethnic groups
Historical archaeology: ‘handservant’ of history or objective science?
A theoretical approach to ethnicity
Practice and representation
Conclusions

15 Lost kingdoms: oral histories, travellers’ tales and archaeology in southern Madagascar
Mike Parker Pearson, Karen Godden, Ramilisonina, Retsihisatse, Jean-Luc Schwenninger and Helen Smith
Methods and sources
European written sources: Flacourt and Drury
Oral histories
Archaeological survey and excavation
The origins of Tandroy ethnicity
Conclusion

16 Pidgin English: historical archaeology, cultural exchange and the Chinese in the Rocks, 1890–1930
Jane Lydon

The Rocks
Conclusion

17 The formation of ethnic-American identities: Jewish communities in Boston
Suzanne M.Spencer-Wood

Introduction
European origins of Jewish-American identities
Outline of the development of Jewish-American identities
A historical archaeology survey of the development of Boston’s Jewish-American community identities 1840–1920
Conclusion

18 Maroon, race and gender: Palmares material culture and social relations in a runaway settlement
Pedro Paulo A.Funari

Introduction: slaveholding societies, runaway settlements and Palmares
Historical archaeology, its objectives and the Palmares archaeological project
Ethnicity, material culture and Palmares

19 Black identity and sense of past in Brazilian national culture
Michael Rowlands

Introduction
An archaeology of resistance?
A short history of Palmares
The archaeology of Palmares
An African-American culture at Palmares?
Conclusion