Full Description
This collection of essays in Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement draws inspiration from current archaeological interest in the movement of individuals, things, and ideas in the recent past. Movement is fundamentally concerned with the relationship(s) among time, object, person, and space. The volume argues that understanding movement in the past requires a shift away from traditional, fieldwork-based archaeological ontologies towards fluid, trajectory-based studies. Archaeology, by its very nature, locates objects frozen in space (literally in their three-dimensional matrices) at sites that are often stripped of people. An archaeology of movement must break away from this stasis and cut new pathways that trace the boundary-crossing contextuality inherent in object/person mobility.
Essays in this volume build on these new approaches, confronting issues of movement from a variety of perspectives. They are divided into four sections, based on how the act of moving is framed. The groups into which these chapters are placed are not meant to be unyielding or definitive. The first section, "Objects in Motion," includes case studies that follow the paths of material culture and its interactions with groups of people. The second section of this volume, "People in Motion," features chapters that explore the shifting material traces of human mobility. Chapters in the third section of this book, "Movement through Spaces," illustrate the effects that particular spaces have on the people and objects who pass through them. Finally, there is an afterward that cohesively addresses the issue of studying movement in the recent past. At the heart of Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement is a concern with the hybridity of people and things, affordances of objects and spaces, contemporary heritage issues, and the effects of movement onarchaeological subjects in the recent and contemporary past.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Mary C. Beaudry and Travis G. Parno
Introduction: Archaeologies of Movement
PART ONE: MOVEMENT OF OBJECTS
Visa Immonen
Intercontinental Flows of Desire: Brass Kettles in Lapland and in the Colony of New Sweden
Scott Joseph Allen
The Movement of People and Things in the Captania de Pernambuco: Challenges for Archaeological Interpretation
Oscar Aldred
Farmers, Sorting Folds, Earmarks and Sheep in Iceland
Ronald Salzer
Mobility Ahead of its Time - a 15th-century Austrian Pocket Sundial as a Trailblazing Instrument for Time Measurement on Travels
PART TWO: MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE
Chief-fu Jeff Cheng and Ellen Hseih
The Archaeological Study of the Military Dependents Village of Taiwan
Mats Burström
Buried Memories: Wartime Caches and Family History in Estonia
Craig Cipolla
Resituating Homeland: Motion, Movement & Ethnogenesis at Brothertown
Sean Winter
The Global versus the Local: Modelling the British System of Convict Transportation after 1830
Karen Hutchins
Movement and Liminality at the Margins: the Wandering Poor in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts
Magdalena Naum (University of Cambridge)
The Malady of Emigrants: Homesickness and Longing in the Colony of New Sweden, 1638-1655
PART THREE: MOVEMENT THROUGH SPACES
John F. Cherry Luke J. Pecoraro Krysta Ryzewski
"A Kinda Sacred Place": The Rock and Roll Ruins of Air Studios, Montserrat
Travis Parno
The Mosaic and the Interruption: An Approach to Material Aesthetics at Historic House Sites
Christina Hodge
Setting the Structure: Affordances of the Harvard Indian College
Alexander Keim (Boston University)
In the Street: Personal Adornment and Embodied Movement in the Urban Landscapes of Boston's North End
AFTERWORD
Shannon Dawdy
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