Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens
"An exploration of Western historical archaeologists' role in American regionalism and a call for creating archaeologies of the West as an alternative to the isolated archaeologists working in the West"--Provided by publisher.
| Other Authors: | Warner, Mark S.,, Purser, Margaret Sermons, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology,
[2017]
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| Physical Description: |
xxvii, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Historical archaeology of the American West.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Historical archaeology through a western lens / Margaret Purser and Mark Warner
- Part 1. Economics and economies. Boomtimes and boomsurfers : toward a material culture of western expansion / Margaret Purser ; The archaeology of San Francisco's Gold Rush waterfront, 1849-1851 : building a new model of the 19th century Pacific Rim maritime "frontier" / James P. Delgado ; "Where ornament and function are so agreeably combined" : a new look at consumer choice studies using English ceramic wares at Hudson's Bay Company, Fort Vancouver / Robert J. Cromwell ; Approaching transient labor through archaeology / Mark Walker
- Part 2. Archaeologies of race and racism. "Can we separate the 'Indian' from the 'American' in the historical archaeology of the American Indian?" / Joe Watkins ; Rock hearths and rural wood camps in Jīn Shān/Gām Saan : National Register of Historic Places evaluations of 19th-century Chinese logging operations at Heavenly Ski Resort in the Lake Tahoe Basin / Kelly J. Dixon and Carrie Smith ; Archaeology of the Chinese and Japanese diasporas in North America and a framework for comparing material lives of transnational migrant communities / Douglas E. Ross ; Digging yesterday : the archaeology of living memory at Amache / Bonnie J. Clark
- Part 3. Reassessing the West. The cultural context of commerce : historical anthropology and historical silences along the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail / Minette Church ; Our dangerous discipline : doing historical archaeology in Utah / Timothy James Scarlett ; The mild Wild West : settling communities and settling households in turn-of-the-century Idaho / Mark Warner
- Epilogue : Digging holes in the American West / Matthew Johnson.