Cover -- HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Back from the edge -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: archaeology in history -- ARCHAEOLOGY IN HISTORY: PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION AND SUBJECT MATTER -- DISLOCATION AND CONTINUITY: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY -- THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS -- 'BACK FROM THE EDGE': TOWARDS A WORLD-WIDE HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY -- POWER AND IDENTITY: COMMON THEMES - DIVERSE CONTEXTS -- FRAGMENTATION -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY: An ambivalent relationship -- 2 Rethinking historical archaeology -- THE FRAGMENTATION OF THEORY -- THE FRAGMENTATION OF DISCIPLINARITY -- THE FRAGMENTATION OF MASTER NARRATIVES -- THE FRAGMENTATION OF METHOD -- ONE WAY FORWARD -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Historical archaeology from a world perspective -- HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, AN AMERICAN DISCIPLINE -- THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK -- ARE THERE PERIPHERAL OUTLOOKS? -- THE REVOLUTIONARY ROLE OF CAPITALISM AND A POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK -- NON-CAPITALIST FEATURES OF THE MODERN WORLD: LATIN AMERICA, A CASE IN POINT -- TOWARDS A WORLD PERSPECTIVE -- 4 Research trends in the historical archaeology of Zimbabwe -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITIONS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES -- HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN ZIMBABWE -- ARCHAEOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND THE WRITTEN SOURCES: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES CONNECTED WITH THE TORWA/CHANGAMIRE STATES -- ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF NDEBELE-BRITISH INTERACTION: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NDEBELE STATE AND THE EARLY COLONIAL PERIOD -- MERCHANT CAPITAL, TRADE AND STATES IN NORTHERN ZIMBABWE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MUTAPA STATE -- CONCLUSIONS -- 5 The séance of 27 August 1889 and the problem of historical consciousness -- ARCHAEOLOGIES OF DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE -- 6 Gender, symbolism and power in Iberian societies.

INTRODUCTION -- IBERIANS, ART AND GENDER -- DISCUSSION -- 7 The tyranny of the text: lost social strategies in current historical period archaeology in the classical Mediterranean -- INTRODUCTION -- TEXTS AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN CLASSICAL STUDIES -- THE ISSUE -- A SOCIAL HISTORIAN/ARCHAEOLOGIST'S RECONSTRUCTION -- THE MORTUARY RECORD -- THE CONTEXT OF THE CEMETERY AND SOCIAL HISTORIANS/ARCHAEOLOGISTS' MODELS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- 8 The imperial context of Romano-British studies and proposals for a new understanding of social change -- THE IMPERIAL CONTEXT OF THE THEORY OF ROMANIZATION -- PROPOSALS FOR A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- A CASE STUDY: THE ROUNDHOUSE -- CONCLUSIONS -- 9 Class and rubbish -- CLASS -- MEDIEVAL RUBBISH IN SOUTHAMPTON -- MEDIEVAL SOUTHAMPTON -- DISTRIBUTION OF POTTERY TYPES -- THE VALUE OF IMPORTED POTTERY -- CONCLUSION -- 10 Proto-colonial archaeology: the case of Elizabethan Ireland -- EARLIER TUDOR COLONIZATION -- ELIZABETHAN COLONIZATION -- JACOBEAN COLONIZATION -- PROTO-COLONIAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN NORTHERN IRELAND -- CONCLUSIONS -- 11 West India: iconographic documents from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil -- INTRODUCTION -- SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELLERS: DUTCH BRAZIL -- NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELLERS: THE ENLIGHTENMENT VISION -- A WAY OF LIFE: SLAVERY AS A RELATIONAL PATTERN -- CONCLUDING: BRAZIL AS IT IS -- 12 Subaltern voices? Finding the spaces between things and words -- 13 On rejecting the concept of socio-economic status in historical archaeology -- INTRODUCTION -- ANALYTIC TOOLS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL -- ANALYTIC TOOLS: DOCUMENTARY -- A QUESTION OF AIMS -- DISCUSSION -- ISSUES OF IDENTITY, NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY -- 14 Historical categories and the praxis of identity: the interpretation of ethnicity in historical archaeology.

THE PROBLEM: THE INTERPLAY OF TEXT AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN THE INTERPRETATION OF ETHNIC GROUPS -- HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: 'HANDSERVANT' OF HISTORY OR OBJECTIVE SCIENCE? -- A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO ETHNICITY -- PRACTICE AND REPRESENTATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- 15 Lost kingdoms: oral histories, travellers' tales and archaeology in southern Madagascar -- METHODS AND SOURCES -- EUROPEAN WRITTEN SOURCES: FLACOURT AND DRURY -- ORAL HISTORIES -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND EXCAVATION -- THE ORIGINS OF TANDROY ETHNICITY -- CONCLUSION -- 16 Pidgin English: historical archaeology, cultural exchange and the Chinese in the Rocks, 1890-1930 -- THE ROCKS -- CONCLUSION -- 17 The formation of ethnic-American identities: Jewish communities in Boston -- INTRODUCTION -- EUROPEAN ORIGINS OF JEWISH-AMERICAN IDENTITIES -- OUTLINE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH-AMERICAN IDENTITIES -- A HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SURVEY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF BOSTON'S JEWISH-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IDENTITIES 1840-1920 -- CONCLUSION -- 18 Maroon, race and gender: Palmares material culture and social relations in a runaway settlement -- INTRODUCTION: SLAVEHOLDING SOCIETIES, RUNAWAY SETTLEMENTS AND PALMARES -- HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, ITS OBJECTIVES AND THE PALMARES ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT -- ETHNICITY, MATERIAL CULTURE AND PALMARES -- 19 Black identity and sense of past in Brazilian national culture -- INTRODUCTION -- AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF RESISTANCE? -- A SHORT HISTORY OF PALMARES -- THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PALMARES -- AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE AT PALMARES? -- CONCLUSION -- Index.