Description
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology is a multi-authored compendium of articles on specific topics of interest to todayâs historical archaeologists, offering perspectives on the current state of research and collectively outlining future directions for the field.
The broad range of topics covered in this volume allows for specificity within individual chapters, while building to a cumulative overview of the field of historical archaeology as it stands, and where it could go next. Archaeological research is discussed in the context of current sociological concerns, different approaches and techniques are assessed, and potential advances are posited. This is a comprehensive treatment of the sub-discipline, engaging key contemporary debates, and providing a series of specially-commissioned geographical overviews to complement the more theoretical explorations.
This book is designed to offer a starting point for students who may wish to pursue pa
Table of Contents
1 Introduction; Historical Development; 2 A Brief History of Historical Archaeology in the Beginning of the Twentieth-First Century; Core Issues and Topics; 3 Colonialism in Historical Archaeology: A Review of Issues and Perspective; 4 HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE NEW ONTOLOGIES: SOME EXPERIENCES IN BRAZIL; 5 Race; 6 Intersectionality, Queer Archaeology, and Sexual Effects: Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Sexualities; 7 Capitalism and Globalization; 8 Enslavement and Emancipation; 9 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 10 CRM/Commercial Historical Archaeology in the 21st Century; 11 Conflict Archaeology; 12 Contemporary Archaeology; 13 Historical Archaeology and Technology; Theoretical Approaches; 14 Becoming. Senses and Affects in Historical Archaeology; 15 On Interdisciplinarity and Historical Archaeology; 16 Critical Theory; 17 The Politics of Interpretation in Historical Archaeology; 18 FEMINIST HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY; 19 Marxism, Historical Archaeology and the Web of Life; 20 From an Environmental Historical Archaeology to an Historical Ecoarchaeology; 21 Gender perspectives in South American archeology – a look from Brazil; 22 Socioeconomics and Inequality in a Comparative Perspective: possibilities and problems in the Mode of Production approach; Subjects; 23 Isotope Bioarchaeology in Historical Archaeology; 24 Analysing historical artefacts: progress and challenges; 25 "A Distinction without a Difference": Primary Narrative Texts in Historical Inquiry; 26 Oral History; 27 Geographic Information Systems in Historical Archaeology; 28 Archaeology of Architecture – Buildings Archaeology; 29 Landscape Analysis; 30 Advances in Gravestone and Cemetery Studies in the United States and the Commonwealth of Nations; 31 Interpretive Directions for Historical Zooarchaeology in the Twenty-First Century; 32 Faunistic analysis - emphasis on the southern hemisphere; 33 Floral Analysis; Regional Overviews; 34 The everyday and the longue durée: Trans-historical archaeologies of western Africa.; 35 Colonies, missions, violence and trade. The historical archaeology of Northeast Africa; 36 Historical Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East; 37 East and Southeast Asia at the Age of Contact: Post-1500 Archaeology of Asia; 38 Oceania; 39 Caribbean Historical Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century; 40 HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; 41 Historical Archaeology in Europe; 42 Regional overview: UK and Ireland; 43 Recasting Mobility and Movement in Eastern North America: a Fisheries Perspective; 44 Repercussions of Rapid Colonization: Archaeological Insights from the North American West; 45 Maritime Archaeology; 46 Antarctic Archaeology
