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This collection of essays draws inspiration from the late James Deetz's In Small Things Forgotten (1977). Deetz's seminal work broke new ground by using structuralist theory to show how artefacts reflected the `worldviews' or idealogies of their makers and users, and claimed that the American colonial world had been structured according to a British intellectual blueprint, the so-called `Georgian Order'. His central premise, that the systematic study of mundane material objects such as tombstones, architecture, and furniture, can render palpable the intangible aspects of human cognition and belief systems, has become a fundamental tenet of modern historical archaeology.
Drawing on James Deetz's insight that everyday objects from the recent past are `freighted with social significance' and that material culture operates alongside language as a system of communication, this book unravels specific cultural moments in well-documented historical periods across the modern world. These studies range from the early 17th century to the late 20th century and employ theory from archaeology and anthropology to elucidate the complex links between human thought and action.
The authors, drawn from North America, Europe, and Australia, make a significant contribution to archaeological knowledge, moving beyond simple materialities to create human stories that transcend purely descriptive show-and-tell accounts of archaeological sites and allow taken-for-granted constructions of race, class and gender to be probed and challenged.
Contents
1. Finding Belief, Desire and Benevolence in Historical Archaeology
James Symonds and Jeff Oliver
Part I Landscapes, Power and Belief
2. Catholic Artefacts in a Protestant Landscape: A Multi-Vocal Approach to the Religiosity of Jamestown's Colonists
Travis G. Parno and Brent Fortenberry, both at Boston University
3. Discipline, Church and Landscape: The Material Culture of Social Hierarchy in Northern Finland from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Timo Ylimaunu, University of Oulu
4. `Believe, Hon': Markets, Faith and Archaeology in Twenty-First Century Baltimore
David Gadsby, US National Park Service
Part II Faith in Fashion
5. Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Clothing
Carolyn L. White, University of Nevada
6. Articles of Faith and Decency: The Huguenot Refugees
Greig Parkes, Independent scholar
Part III Colonial Entanglements
7. Assuming the Aspect of a Civilized Place: Methodists in Paradise
Jonathan Prangnell and Kate Quirk, both at the University of Queensland
8. Reflections on Resistance: Agency, Identity and Being Indigenous in Colonial British Columbia
Jeff Oliver
Part IV Confinement and Resistance
9. Resistance, the Body and the V-sign Campaign in Channel Islander World War II German Internment Camps
Gillian Carr, Cambridge University
10. America's World War II Internment Camps: Japanese American Patriotism and Defiance at Manzanar
Jeffery F. Burton, US National Park Service
11. Manifestations of Hope in a Place of Fear: Long Kesh/Maze Prison, Northern Ireland
Laura McAtackney, University College Dublin
Part V Death and Remembrance
12. Faith in Action: Theology and Practice in Commemorative Traditions
Harold Mytum, University of Liverpool
13. The Changing Memories and Meanings of the First World War Expressed through Public Commemorations in Exeter, Devon
Samuel Walls, South West Archaeology
