The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies
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The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies

  1. 315 pages
  2. English
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The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies

About this book

Emphasizing the important social relationships that form among people who participate in small-scale economic transactions, contributors to this volume explore often-overlooked networks of intimate and shadow economies—terms used to describe trade that takes place outside formal market systems. Case studies from a variety of historical contexts around the world reveal the ways such transactions created community and identity, subverted class and power relations, and helped people adapt to new social realities. In Maine, woven baskets sold by Native American artisans to Euroamerican consumers supported Native strategies for cultural survival and agency. Alcohol exchanged by Scandinavian merchants for furs and skins enabled their indigenous trading partners to expand social webs that contested colonialism. Moonshine production in Appalachia was an integral part of economic exchanges in isolated mountain communities. Caribbean and American plantations contain evidence of interactions, exchanges, and attachments between enslaved communities and poor whites that defied established racial boundaries. From brothel workers in Boston to seal hunters in Antarctica, the examples in this volume show how historical archaeologists can use the concept of intimate economies to uncover deeply meaningful connections that exist beyond the traditional framework of global capitalism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Preface
  9. 1. The Intimate Economies Perspective
  10. 2. Potatoes, Baskets, and Power: Indigenous Persistence in Maine
  11. 3. Webs of Drinking: Alcohol, Colonialism, and Social Relations in Early Modern Sápmi
  12. 4. A Round for All My Friends: Understanding the Economic Impact of Moonshine Production
  13. 5. The Pitch Mill: The Material Memory of a Specialized Production Site in the Town of Oulu, Finland
  14. 6. Caribbean Contradictions: Entangled Networks, Slavery, and the French West Indies
  15. 7. Blurred Boundaries: Internal and Illicit Plantation Economies
  16. 8. Intimacies and Attachments: Households and Hucksters on a Barbadian Plantation
  17. 9. Inside and Outside Capitalism: The Life of Sealers on the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
  18. 10. Surf and Turf: Understanding Montaukett Economic Strategies during the Whaling Era
  19. 11. Intimacies of Glass in Early Eighteenth-Century Louisiana
  20. 12. Clandestine, Ephemeral, Anonymous? Myths and Realities of the Intimate Economy of a Nineteenth-Century Boston Brothel
  21. 13. Uncovering an Early Seventeenth-Century Token Currency Scheme at Jamestown, Virginia
  22. 14. Rag, Stone, Water: A Material Study of Holy Wells in Contemporary Ireland
  23. 15. Concluding Thoughts: Reframing the Archaeology of Intimate Economies
  24. List of Contributors
  25. Index