Material Worlds

Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity
Herausgeber: Breen, Eleanor E.; Lee, Lori A.; Heath, Barbara J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard. Interrogating individual objects as well as considering the contexts in which acts of consumption take place, a range of case studies present the intertwined issues of power, inequality, identity, and community as mediated through choice, access, and use of the diversity of mass-produced goods. 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. Situating studies of consumerism within the field of historical archaeology, this exciting collection reflects on the interrelationship between the material and ideological aspects of culture. With a focus on North America from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries, Material Worlds is an important examination of consumption which will appeal to scholars with interests in colonialism, gender and race, as well as those engaged with the material culture of the emergent modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780367875268
• ISBN-10: 0367875268
• Artikelnr.: 58441665

Autorenporträt

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.