Beyond the Walls
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Beyond the Walls

New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households

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eBook - ePub

Beyond the Walls

New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households

About this book

“Thought-provoking and engaging, Beyond the Walls provides new and relevant theoretical perspectives and specific case studies for archaeologists conducting research related to household archaeology. Essential for both students and professionals.”—Mark D. Groover, author of The Archaeology of North American Farmsteads
  
“From ranching stations in Hawai’i to slave quarters in South Carolina, the essays in Beyond the Walls crosscut time and space to consider the interrelationships between households and the wider regional and global networks in which their residents were enmeshed, presenting new insights relating to identity, consumerism, and modernity.”—Barbara J. Heath, coeditor of Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
 

While household archaeologists view the home as a social unit, few move their investigations “beyond the walls” when contextualizing a household in its community. Even exterior aspects of a dwelling—its plant life, yard spaces, and trash heaps—uncover issues of domination and resistance, gender relations, and the effects of colonialism. This innovative volume examines historical homes and their wider landscapes to more fully address social issues of the past.
           
The contributors, leading archaeologists using various interpretive frameworks, analyze households across time periods and diverse cultures in North America. Including case studies of James Madison’s Montpelier, George Washington’s Ferry Farm, Chinese immigrants in a Nevada mining town and Southern plantations, Beyond the Walls offers a new avenue for archaeological study of domestic sites.
 
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Preface and Acknowledgments
  8. 1. Households beyond the House: On the Archaeology and Materiality of Historical Households
  9. 2. Scalar Analysis of Early Nineteenth-Century Household Assemblages: Focus on Communities of the African Atlantic
  10. 3. Exploring Household Foodways in the North Carolina Piedmont, 1450–1710
  11. 4. Landschaft and Place-Making at George Washington’s Ferry Farm
  12. 5. Ranch as ‘Ohana: The Role of Ranching Station Households in the Formation of the Hawaiian Ranching Community
  13. 6. Intimate Landscapes and Ideal Households: Nineteenth-Century Proslavery Reforms on a South Carolina Plantation
  14. 7. Households of the Overseas Chinese in Aurora, Nevada
  15. 8. Traditions and Tasks: Household Production and the Internal Economy at Dean Hall Plantation, South Carolina
  16. 9. The Spooky Entanglements of Historical Households
  17. List of Contributors
  18. Index