From Schuyler Reader: Chpt 1 Harrington Archaeology as an Auxiliary Science to American History Chpt 2 Fish Relation of Archaeology to History Chpt 5 Cotter Symposium on role of Archaeology in Historical Research, Summary and Analysis Chpt 6 Griffin End Products of Historic Sites Archaeology Chpt 7 Fontana On the Meaning of Historic Sites Archaeology Chpt 8 Schuyler Historical and Historic Archaeology as Anthropology: Basic Definitions and Relationships Chpt 24 Hume The Why, What, and Who of Historical Archaeology Chpt 25 Walker Historical Archaeology – Methods and Principles Chpt 26 Dollar Some Thoughts on Theory and Method in Historical Archaeology Larrabee, Edward McM. 1969 Historic Site Archaeology in Relation to Archaeology. Historical Archaeology 3: 67-74. Week 3 (Sept 7 – Sept 11) Later Definitions and Paradigms South, Stanley 1979 Historic Site Content, Structure, and Function. American Antiquity 44(2):213-237. Leone, Mark P, Parker B. Potter, and Paul A. Shackel 1987 Toward a Critical Archaeology. Current Anthropology 28(3):283-302 Little, Barbara 1994 People with history: an update on historical archaeology in the United States. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 1(1):1-40. Leone, Mark 1995 A historical archaeology of capitalism. American Anthropologist 97(2): 251-268. X (synopsis required) Schuyler, Robert L. 1988 Archaeological remains, documents and anthropology: a call for a new culture history. Historical Archaeology 22(1):36-42. X (synopsis required) McKay, Joyce 1976 The Coalescence of History and Archaeology. Historical Archaeology 10:93-98.
Adams, William Hampton and Sarah Jane Boling 1989 Status and Ceramics for Planters and Slaves on Three Georgia Costal Plantations. Historical Archaeology 23(1):69-96. Otto, John Solomon 1980 Race and Class on Antebellum Plantations. In Archaeological Perspectives on Ethnicity in America: Afro-American and Asian American Culture History, edited by Robert L. Schuyler, pp. 3-13. Baywood Publishing Co, Farmingdale, NY. Week 10 (Oct 26 – Oct 30) Race/Ethnicity/Gender part 1 Franklin, Maria and Garrett Fesler (editors) 1999 Historical Archaeology, Identity Formation, and the Interpretation of Ethnicity. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Richmond, VA. (Read Introduction only) Bullen, Adelaide K. And Ripley P. Bullen 1945 Black Lucy’s Garden. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society 6(2):17-28. Baker, Vernon G. 1980 Archaeological visibility of Afro-American Culture: An Example from Lucy’s Garden, Andover, Massachusetts. In Archaeological Perspectives on Ethnicity in America, ed. Robert L. Schuyler, pp. 29-37. Baywood Press, Farmingdale, NY. Wheaton, Thomas R. and Patrick H. Garrow 1985 Acculturation and the Archaeological Record in the Carolina Lowcountry. In The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life, edited by Theresa Singleton, pp. 239-269. Academic Press, Orlando, FL. Howson, Jean E. 1990 Social Relations and Material Culture: A Critique of the Archaeology of Plantation Slavery. Historical Archaeology 24(4):78-91. X (synopsis required) Warren Perry and Robert Paynter 1999 “Artifacts, Ethnicity, and the Archaeology of African Americans.” In “I, Too, Am America”: Archaeological Studies of African-American Life, edited by Theresa Singleton, pp. 299-310. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville. X (synopsis required) Babson, David W. 1990 The Archaeology of Racism and Ethnicity on Southern Plantations. Historical Archaeology 24(4):20-28. X (synopsis required)
Orser, Charles E. Jr. 1999 The Challenge of Race to American Historical Archaeology. American Anthropologist 100(3):661-668. X (synopsis required) Voss, Barbara L. 2005 The Archaeology of Overseas Chinese Communities. World Archaeology 37(3):424-439. Week 11 (Nov 2 – Nov 6) Race/Ethnicity/Gender part 2 Purser, Margaret 1991 “Several Paradise Ladies are Visiting in Town”: Gender Strategies in the Early Industrial West. Historical Archaeology 25(4):6-16. X (synopsis required) Wall, Diane Dizerega 1999 Examining Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century New York City. Historical Archaeology 33(1):102-117. X (synopsis required) Little, Barbara J. 1997 Expressing Ideology Without a Voice, or Obfuscation and the Enlightenment. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 1(3):225-241. Wylie, Alison 1991 Gender theory and the archaeological record: why is there no archaeology of gender? In Engendering Archaeology: Women in Prehistory, edited by M. Conkey and J. Specter, pp. 31-54. Basil Blackwell, Oxford. X (synopsis required) Voss, Barbara L. 2000 Feminisms, Queer Theories, and the Archaeological Study of Past Sexualities. World Archaeology 32(2):180-192. Geller, Pamela L. 2009 Identity and Difference: Complicating Gender in Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 38:65-81. Mullins, Paul R. 1999 “A Bold and Gorgeous Front”: The Contradictions of African America and Consumer Culture. In Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, edited by M. Leone and P. Potter, pp. Plenum Publishing, New York. X (synopsis required) Mullins, Paul R.