A historical archaeology of the modern world /

This unique book offers a theoretical framework for historical archaeology that explicitly relies on network theory. Charles E. Orser, Jr., demonstrates the need to examine the impact of colonialism, Eurocentrism, capitalism, and modernity on all archaeological sites inhabited after 1492 and shows h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Orser, Charles E.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1996]
Series:Contributions to global historical archaeology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A crisis in Historical Archaeology
  • Men, Women, Nets, and Archaeologists
  • The haunts of Historical Archaeology
  • The Haunts Confer at Gorttoose
  • The Entangled World of Artifacts
  • Invented Place, Created Space
  • Can the Subaltern Speak?
  • Think Globally, Dig Locally.