Material worlds : archaeology, consumption, and the road to modernity / edited by Barbara J. Heath, Eleanor E. Breen, and Lori A. Lee
- Published:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Heath, Barbara J., 1960-, Breen, Eleanor E., and Lee, Lori A.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in archaeology ; 26
- Contents:
- An historical archaeology of consumerism : re-centering objects, re-engaging with data / Barbara J. Heath -- Modeling consumption : a social network analysis of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale / Elliot H. Blair -- "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 -- Commoditization, consumption, and interpretive complexity : the contingent role of cowries in the early modern world / Barbara J. Heath -- Underpinning a plantation : a material culture approach to consumerism at George Washington's Mount Vernon / Eleanor Breen -- Acquiring transfer-printed ceramics for the Jefferson household at Poplar Forest / Jack Gary -- "With sundry other sorts of small ware too tedious to mention" : petty consumerism on US plantations / Lindsay Bloch and Anna S. Agbe-Davies -- Health consumerism among enslaved Virginians / Lori A. Lee -- The abundance index : measuring variation in consumer behavior in the early modern Atlantic world / Jillian E. Galle -- Exploring enslaved laborers' ceramic investment and market access in Jamaica / Lynsey A. Bates -- Cotton estates and cotton craft production in the colonial-era Caribbean / Alan D. Armstrong and Mark W. Hauser -- Identity, choice, and the meaning of material culture : two distinct villages on one Danish West Indies sugar estate / Elizabeth J. Kellar -- "Ambitious to be conventional" : African American expressive culture and consumer imagination / Paul R. Mullins -- All consuming modernity / Charles R. Cobb -- "Open the mind and close the sale" : consumerism and the archaeological record / Ann Smart Martin.
- Summary:
- "Material Worlds explores consumption--broadly defined as the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse and discard--from an archaeological perspective. Moving from the interrogation of objects to the broader social world in which acts of consumption took place, case studies take an archaeological and object-centered approach to understand intertwined issues of power, inequality, identity, and community as mediated through choice, access, and use of the diversity of mass-produced goods. With a focus on North America, Material Worlds is an important examination of consumption and the material culture of the emergent modern world"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject(s):
- Social archaeology—North America
- Archaeology and history—North America
- Historic sites—North America
- Material culture—North America—History
- Consumption (Economics)—North America—History
- Social change—North America—History
- Antiquities
- Archaeology and history
- Consumption (Economics)
- Economic history
- Historic sites
- Material culture
- Social archaeology
- Social change
- North America—Antiquities
- North America—Economic conditions
- North America
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781138101142 hardback alkaline paper, 1138101141 hardback alkaline paper, and 9781315657189
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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