Historical archaeology through a Western lens /edited and with an introduction by Mark Warner and Margaret Purser.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
- Historical archaeology of the American West .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens / Part 1. Economics and Economies -- Boomtimes and Boomsurfers : Toward a Material Culture of Western Expansion / The Archaeology of San Francisco's Gold Rush Waterfront, 1849-1851 : Building a New Model of the 19th Century Pacific Rim Maritime "Frontier" / "Where Ornament and Function are so Agreeably Combined" : A New Look at Consumer Choice Studies Using English Ceramic Wares at Hudson's Bay Company, Fort Vancouver / Approaching Transient Labor through Archaeology / Part 2. Archaeologies of Race and Racism -- "Can We Separate the 'Indian' from the 'American' in the Historical Archaeology of the American Indian?" / Rock Hearths and Rural Wood Camps in Jīn Shān/Gām Saan : National Register of Historic Places Evaluations of 19th-century Chinese Logging Operations at Heavenly Ski Resort in the Lake Tahoe Basin / Archaeology of the Chinese and Japanese Diasporas in North America and a Framework for Comparing Material Lives of Transnational Migrant Communities / Digging Yesterday : The Archaeology of Living Memory at Amache / Part 3. Reassessing the West -- The Cultural Context of Commerce : Historical Anthropology and Historical Silences along the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail / Our Dangerous Discipline : Doing Historical Archaeology in Utah / The Mild Wild West : Settling Communities and Settling Households in Turn of the Century Idaho / Epilogue / Margaret Purser and Mark Warner -- Margaret Purser -- James P. Delgado -- Robert J. Cromwell -- Mark Walker -- Joe Watkins -- Kelly J. Dixon and Carrie Smith -- Douglas E. Ross -- Bonnie J. Clark -- Minette Church -- Timothy James Scarlett -- Mark Warner -- Matthew Johnson.
"An exploration of Western historical archaeologists' role in American regionalism and a call for creating archaeologies of the West as an alternative to the isolated archaeologists working in the West"--Provided by publisher. "The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. The work of many western-based historical archaeologists over the past decade, however, has revealed narratives that often sharply challenge that timelessness. Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens reveals an archaeological past that is distinct to the region--but not in ways that popular imagination might suggest. Instead, this volume highlights a western past characterized by rapid and ever-changing interactions between diverse groups of people across a wide range of environmental and economic situations. The dynamic and unpredictable lives of western communities have prompted a constant challenging and reimagining of both individual identities and collective understandings of their position within a broader national experience. Indeed, the archaeological West is one clearly characterized by mobility rather than stasis. The archaeologies presented in this volume explore the impact of that pervasive human mobility on the West--a world of transience, impermanence, seasonal migration, and accelerated trade and technology at scales ranging from the local to the global. By documenting the challenges of both local community-building and global networking, they provide an archaeologyofthe West that is ultimatelyfromthe West"--Provided by publisher.
9781496200358 9781496200372
2017007852
Archaeology and history--West (U.S.) Historic sites--West (U.S.) Excavations (Archaeology)--West (U.S.) Archaeologists--West (U.S.) Regionalism--History.--United States Social archaeology--West (U.S.) Ethnoarchaeology--West (U.S.) Archaeology--Philosophy.--United States