White The Materiality of Individuality

Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4419-0498-0
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 227 Seiten

Generally individuals in history are known for a particular reason - they somehow influenced history. Very little is known about the ordinary person who lived in the past. But historical archaeologists - through their interpretation of the material culture and historic record - can study the past on an individual level. This brings archaeological interpretation from a micro to a macro level - as opposed to the traditional level of society to community to individual interpretation. The cases presented in this volume engage material culture that is owned or used by a single person and is thus associated with an individual at some point in its uselife. The volume takes bodkins, shoes, beads, cloth, religious items, grave goods, as well as subassemblages from well-defined contexts from New England, the Chesapeake, New Orleans, Hawaii, Spanish colonial America, and London in the pursuit of the individual and the textured interpretation this analytical scale provides. This volume promises to present innovative approaches to a host of archaeological materials, drawing widely on the range of archaeological research for the historical period today. Capitalizing on several topics and research threads with great currency, such as the examination of material culture and interest in various and intersecting lines of identity construction, as well as presenting an international and multiregional approach to these topics, this volume will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, material culture scholars, and social historians interested in a wide variety of time periods and subfields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Carolyn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;The Materiality of Individuality;2
1.1;Contents;5
1.2;Contributors;7
1.3;Introduction: Objects, Scale, and Identity Entangled;9
1.3.1;Identity and Historical Archaeology;11
1.3.2;Individual Lives;13
1.3.3;Entangled/Untangled Lives;14
1.3.4;Corporeality;15
1.3.5;Daily Practices, Episodic Events, and Social Networks;16
1.3.6;Particular People;17
1.3.7;Articulation with Broader Patterns;19
1.3.8;References;20
1.4;The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph: An Eighteenth-Century Mission-Garrison-Trading Post Complex on the Edge;24
1.4.1;Introduction;24
1.4.2;Individuality, Identity, and Archaeological Agents;25
1.4.3;The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph;29
1.4.4;Further Implications of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Collections;33
1.4.5;Summary and Conclusions;37
1.4.6;References;38
1.5;People in Objects: Individuality and the Quotidian in the Material Culture of War;42
1.5.1;People in Landscapes/Landscapes in People;45
1.5.2;Ambiguous Components;46
1.5.3;Natural Worlds;51
1.5.4;The Compression and Unwinding of Time;54
1.5.5;Individual and Society;57
1.5.6;References;59
1.6;A Biography of a Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle: The Biucchi Brothers and the Ticinese Community in Nineteenth-Century London;61
1.6.1;Introduction;61
1.6.2;A Stoneware Bottle: Archaeological Histories, 1990–2004;61
1.6.3;Clerkenwell’s Little Italy: A Neighborhood History, 1850–1902;64
1.6.4;The Biucchi Brothers: Second-Generation Immigrant Histories, 1890–1938;65
1.6.5;Family and Ticinese and Italian Connections: Kin and Origin;68
1.6.6;Observing London’s Mineral Water Trade;69
1.6.7;Archaeological Perspectives;72
1.6.8;The Past Meets the Present: Tony Buicchi;73
1.6.9;Conclusion: Tangibility in Historical Archaeology;75
1.6.10;References;76
1.7;Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in Nineteenth-C;79
1.7.1;Introduction;79
1.7.2;Architectural Lime as a Material of Individuality;80
1.7.2.1;The Inception of Architectural Lime in Hawaii (1798–1819);81
1.7.2.2;The Early Missionary Era (1820–1830s);82
1.7.2.3;Lime in the “Great Awakening” (1830s–1850);86
1.7.2.4;Lime in the Second Half of the 19th Century;89
1.7.3;Conclusions;90
1.7.4;References;92
1.8;Bodkin Biographies;97
1.8.1;References;107
1.9;Material Manipulations: Beads and Cloth in the French Colonies;111
1.9.1;Introduction;111
1.9.2;Materiality of Colonialism;112
1.9.3;Tangible Materials;114
1.9.3.1;Beads;114
1.9.3.2;Cloth and Deerskin;116
1.9.4;Combinations and Constructions: Cloth, Hide, Glass, and Shell on the Body;118
1.9.5;Conclusions;122
1.9.6;References;123
1.10;Mission Santa Catalina’s Mondadiente de Plata (Silver Toothpick): Materiality and the Construction of Self in Spanish La Florid;127
1.10.1;The Individual;130
1.10.2;The Toothpick: Personal Hygiene and Adornment;131
1.10.3;The Toothpick: In History and Archaeology;134
1.10.4;Negotiating Identity in the New World: The Hidalgo and Criollo;137
1.10.5;References;139
1.11;Single Shoes and Individual Lives: The Mill Creek Shoe Project;142
1.11.1;Shoes and Individuals;142
1.11.2;Shoes and Historical Archaeology;143
1.11.3;The Mill Creek Shoe Project;143
1.11.4;The Mill Creek Shoe Assemblage;144
1.11.4.1;Three Styles;145
1.11.5;Wear, Repair, Form, and Individuality;148
1.11.5.1;Wear;149
1.11.5.2;Presence and Absence of Repair;151
1.11.6;Layers of Individuality;153
1.11.6.1;The Mill Creek Shoe Assemblage and Layers of Individuality;153
1.11.7;Faces in the Crowd: Three Shoes;154
1.11.7.1;Life I: Child;154
1.11.7.2;Life II: Man or Woman;155
1.11.7.3;Life III: Woman;156
1.11.7.4;Three Lives = A Community?;157
1.11.8;The Mill Creek Assemblage;158
1.11.9;References;159
1.12;Beyond Consumption: Social Relationships, Material Culture, and Identity;162
1.12.1;Family Background;163
1.12.2;The Changing Meaning of the Individual;164
1.12.3;Late Eighteenth-Century Self-Fashioning;166
1.12.3.1;Culture Brokers;167
1.12.4;Archaeology at the Tyng Property;169
1.12.4.1;Disjunctures;170
1.12.4.2;Dress and Politics;176
1.12.5;Conclusion;179
1.12.6;References;180
1.13;Widow Pratt’s Possessions: Individuality and Georgianization in Newport, Rhode Island;183
1.13.1;Introduction;183
1.13.1.1;Widow Elizabeth Pratt of Newport;183
1.13.1.2;The Individuality of Materiality;184
1.13.2;Evidence;186
1.13.2.1;History and Biography;186
1.13.2.2;Archaeology;188
1.13.3;Material Practices;189
1.13.3.1;Retail;190
1.13.3.2;Dining;192
1.13.3.3;Drinking;194
1.13.4;Reflections;197
1.13.5;References;199
1.14;Consuming Individuality: Collective Identity Along the Color Line;204
1.14.1;Racialized Individuality;214
1.14.2;References;215
1.15;Index;217