The Archaeology of Removal in North America
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The Archaeology of Removal in North America

  1. 251 pages
  2. English
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The Archaeology of Removal in North America

About this book

Exploring a wide range of settings and circumstances in which individuals or groups of people have been forced to move from one geographical location to another, the case studies in this volume demonstrate what archaeology can reveal about the agents, causes, processes, and effects of human removal. Contributors focus on material culture and the built environment at colonial villages, frontier farms, industrial complexes, natural disaster areas, and other sites of removal dating from the colonization of North America to the present. They address topics including class, race, memory, identity, and violence. One essay investigates the link between mapmaking and the relocation of Mississippi Chickasaw people to Oklahoma. Another essay uses archival research to problematize the establishment of the National Park Service and the displacement of Appalachian mountain communities; it shows how uprooted people challenged stereotypes and popular narratives circulated by mass media. Additionally, excavations of a World War II–era Japanese American internment camp illustrate how the incarcerated marshaled new social networks to maintain their cultural identities. Research on other carceral sites exposes the ways banishment from society obscures the pervasive violence exerted on prison populations. A concluding chapter grapples with unexpected consequences of removal, as archaeologists paradoxically benefit from the existence of sites previously ignored by the historical record. The archaeologists in this volume broaden our understanding of displacement by identifying parallels with removal experiences occurring today. As they shed light on ongoing global problems of removal, these case studies point to ways descendants, victims, and indigenous people have sought and continue to seek social justice.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF REMOVAL IN NORTH AMERICA
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1. Introduction: Anthropological, Theoretical, and Historical Contexts of Removal
  10. 2. “We Can Fly No Farther”: Colonialism and Displacement among the Piscataway of Southern Maryland
  11. 3. Mapping Chickasaw Removal
  12. 4. Whitewashing an African American Landscape: The Impact of Industrial Capitalism on the Removal of Rural People
  13. 5. Worth(Less): Value and Destruction in a Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Quarry Town
  14. 6. Removal and Remembering: Archaeology and the Legacies of Displacement in Southern Appalachia
  15. 7. Creating a Community in Confinement: The Development of Neighborhoods in Amache, a World War II Japanese American Internment Camp
  16. 8. Topographies of Removal: Rethinking the Archaeology of Prisons
  17. 9. The Janus Face of Removal
  18. List of Contributors
  19. Index