ABSTRACT
Historical Archaeology demonstrates the potential of adopting a flexible, encompassing definition of historical archaeology which involves the study of all societies with documentary evidence. It encourages research that goes beyond the boundaries between prehistory and history.
Ranging in subject matter from Roman Britain and Classical Greece, to colonial Africa, Brazil and the United States, the contributors present a much broader range of perspectives than is currently the trend.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|76 pages
Archaeology and History
part 2|120 pages
Archaeologies of Domination and Resistance
chapter 7|15 pages
The tyranny of the text
Lost social strategies in current historical period archaeology in the classical Mediterranean
chapter 11|13 pages
West India
Iconographic documents from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil
part 3|128 pages
Issues of Identity, Nationalism and Ethnicity
chapter 14|14 pages
Historical categories and the praxis of identity
The interpretation of ethnicity in historical archaeology
chapter 15|22 pages
Lost kingdoms
Oral histories, travellers' tales and archaeology in southern Madagascar
chapter 16|29 pages
Pidgin English
Historical archaeology, cultural exchange and the Chinese in the Rocks, 1890–1930
chapter 18|20 pages
Maroon, race and gender
Palmares material culture and social relations in a runaway settlement
