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Historical archaeology : why the past matters / Barbara J. Little.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1598740229
  • 9781598740226
  • 1598740237
  • 9781598740233
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930.1 22
LOC classification:
  • CC77.H5 L58 2007
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

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