The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States

By Mark P. Leone

Book Overview

Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1988, this collection uses the historical archaeology of the eastern United States to explore social life, religion, and ideology. A new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971958734
• ISBN13: 9780971958739
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Percheron Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Contents

Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Issues in historical archaeology part two 16th century Spanish settlement In the Southeast Chapter 2 Santa Elena: threshold of conquest Chapter 3 Saints and soldiers at Santa Catalina: Hispanic designs for colonial America part two native Americans and Europeans' In 17th century southern new England Chapter 4 sociopolitical implications of mortuary ritual remains in 17th century native Southern New England Chapter 5 from best to history, or why King Philip's ghost walks abroad part three the archaeology of the Georgian worldview In the 18th century beginnings of modernity Chapter 6 material cultural and worldview in colonial Anglo America Chapter 7 the Georgian order as the order of merchant capitalism in an Annapolis Maryland Chapter 8 craft and culture change in the 18th Century Chesapeake Chapter 9 is symmetry and recursive meanings in the 18th century: the Morris Pound house part four 19th-century plantation slavery and its aftermaths Chapter 10 pour a theory of power for historic large theology: plantations and space Chapter 11 and archaeological framework for slavery and emancipation, 1740-1880 part five the archaeology of Industrial capitalism and modern America Chapter 12 meeting in the built environment: symbolic analysis of a 19th century urban site Chapter 13 steps to an archaeology of capitalism: material change in class analysis Chapter 14 Dialogues with the dead: ideology and the cemetery