Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard. Key themes of this innovative volume include the relationship between colonial, political and economic structures and the practices of consumption, the use of consumer goods in the construction and negotiation of identity, and the dialectic between strategies of consumption and individual or community choices. With a focus on North America from the 17th through the early 20th centuries,…mehr
Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard. Key themes of this innovative volume include the relationship between colonial, political and economic structures and the practices of consumption, the use of consumer goods in the construction and negotiation of identity, and the dialectic between strategies of consumption and individual or community choices. With a focus on North America from the 17th through the early 20th centuries, the book situates studies of consumerism within the field of historical archaeology
Barbara J. Heath is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Eleanor E. Breen is a professional archaeologist for the City of Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Lori A. Lee is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Flagler College, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
1: An Historical Archaeology of Consumerism: Re-centering Objects, Re-engaging with Data Barbara J. Heath. 2: Modeling Consumption: A Social Network Analysis of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale Elliot H. Blair. 3: "The Blood and Life of a Commonwealth": Illicit Trade, Identity Formation, and Imported Clay Tobacco Pipes in the 17th-century Potomac River Valley Lauren K. McMillan. 4: Commoditization, Consumption, and Interpretive Complexity: The Contingent Role of Cowries in the Early Modern World Barbara J. Heath. 5: Underpinning a Plantation: A Material Culture Approach to Consumerism at George Washington's Mount Vernon Eleanor Breen. 6: Acquiring Transfer-Printed Ceramics for the Jefferson Household at Poplar Forest Jack Gary. 7: "With sundry other sorts of small ware too tedious to mention:" Petty Consumerism on US Plantations Lindsay Bloch and Anna S. Agbe-Davies. 8: Health Consumerism among Enslaved Virginians Lori A. Lee. 9: The Abundance Index: Measuring Variation in Consumer Behavior in the Early Modern Atlantic World Jillian E. Galle. 10: Exploring Enslaved Laborers' Ceramic Investment and Market Access in Jamaica Lynsey A. Bates. 11: Cotton Estates and Cotton Craft Production in the Colonial-Era Caribbean Alan D. Armstrong and Mark W. Hauser. 12: Identity, Choice, and the Meaning of Material Culture: Two Distinct Villages on One Danish West Indies Sugar Estate Elizabeth J. Kellar 13: "Ambitious to be conventional": African American Expressive Culture and Consumer Imagination Paul R. Mullins. 14: All Consuming Modernity Charles R. Cobb. 15:"Open the Mind and Close the Sale": Consumerism and the Archaeological Record Ann Smart Martin.
1: An Historical Archaeology of Consumerism: Re-centering Objects, Re-engaging with Data Barbara J. Heath. 2: Modeling Consumption: A Social Network Analysis of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale Elliot H. Blair. 3: "The Blood and Life of a Commonwealth": Illicit Trade, Identity Formation, and Imported Clay Tobacco Pipes in the 17th-century Potomac River Valley Lauren K. McMillan. 4: Commoditization, Consumption, and Interpretive Complexity: The Contingent Role of Cowries in the Early Modern World Barbara J. Heath. 5: Underpinning a Plantation: A Material Culture Approach to Consumerism at George Washington's Mount Vernon Eleanor Breen. 6: Acquiring Transfer-Printed Ceramics for the Jefferson Household at Poplar Forest Jack Gary. 7: "With sundry other sorts of small ware too tedious to mention:" Petty Consumerism on US Plantations Lindsay Bloch and Anna S. Agbe-Davies. 8: Health Consumerism among Enslaved Virginians Lori A. Lee. 9: The Abundance Index: Measuring Variation in Consumer Behavior in the Early Modern Atlantic World Jillian E. Galle. 10: Exploring Enslaved Laborers' Ceramic Investment and Market Access in Jamaica Lynsey A. Bates. 11: Cotton Estates and Cotton Craft Production in the Colonial-Era Caribbean Alan D. Armstrong and Mark W. Hauser. 12: Identity, Choice, and the Meaning of Material Culture: Two Distinct Villages on One Danish West Indies Sugar Estate Elizabeth J. Kellar 13: "Ambitious to be conventional": African American Expressive Culture and Consumer Imagination Paul R. Mullins. 14: All Consuming Modernity Charles R. Cobb. 15:"Open the Mind and Close the Sale": Consumerism and the Archaeological Record Ann Smart Martin.
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