Screen LibraryHistorical archaeology：why the past matters
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Left Coast Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Walnut Creek, Calif. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 207 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
1598740229 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781598740226 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1598740237 (paperback : alk. paper) 9781598740233 (paperback : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K85 |
| CLC: | K85-05 |
| Call Number: | K85-05/L778 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index. Do history and historical archaeology matter? -- Section 1: What are our ambitions? The goals of historical archaeology -- Preserving and interpreting sites -- Rewriting documentary history -- Reconstructing ways of life -- Improving archaeological methods -- Understanding modernization and globalization -- Section 2: What do we care about? A questioning attitude -- Defining our topics -- Colonialism, capitalism, and slavery -- What is our evidence? -- Ideology, ambiguity, and muted groups -- Ethical considerations -- Section 3: A windshield survey of historical archaeology. Introduction to a windshield survey of historical archaeology -- The survival of the English colony at Jamestown -- Mission San Luis de Talimali -- Enclosure of the English countryside -- Capitalism, the Georgian order, and a woman -- Australia's convict past -- African American life -- The machine in the garden -- The inner-city working class -- Garbage and garbage-in-waiting -- Section 4: Historical archaeology as public scholarship. Introduction to public archaeology -- Public memory and public places -- Education and outreach -- What about the painful past? -- History and the culture wars -- Civic renewal and restorative justice -- Transformative learning -- Some closing thoughts. |