"This volume grew out of the 1991 Winterthur Conference, 'Historical Archaeology and the Study of American Culture'"--Pref
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Introduction : People, material culture, context, and culture in historical archaeology / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- Introduction : Historical archaeology and the search for context / Bernard L. Herman -- Construction of context : negotiating consumer culture -- Archaeology from the ground up / John Worrell, David M. Simmons, Myron O. Stachiw -- Frontier boys and country cousins : the context for choice in eighteenth-century consumerism / Ann Smart Martin -- Form, fabric, and social factors in nineteenth-century ceramics usage : a case study in Rockingham ware / Jane Perkins Claney -- Negotiating industrial capitalism : mechanisms of change among agrarian potters / Paul R. Mullins -- European textiles from seventeenth-century New England Indian cemeteries / Linda Welters...[et al.] -- Artifacts, networks, and plantations : toward a further understanding of the social aspects of material culture / Charles E. Orser Jr. -- "In the active voice" : remaking the American landscape -- Pollen analysis in urban historical landscape research / Gerald K. Kelso -- The urban landscape, the work yard, and archaeological site formation processes in Charleston, South Carolina / Martha A. Zierden -- Mind reading the urban landscape : an approach to the history of American cities / Eric Sandweiss -- Remaking the barnyard : the archaeology of farm outbuildings in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, 1770-1870 / J. Ritchie Garrison -- Working toward meaning : the scope of historical archaeology -- Feminist historical archaeology and the transformation of American culture by domestic reform movements, 1840-1925 / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood -- Nature, society, and culture : theoretical considerations in historical archaeology / Stephen A. Mrozowski -- Reinventing historical archaeology / Mary C. Beaudry.