文档介绍：HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Historical Archaeology is unique in defining its subject matter within an
international context which is not confined to the age of European colonialism.
The contributors advocate the study of all past societies with documentary
evidence, and challenge the entrenched oppositions between prehistory and
history, pre-literate and literate societies.
Focusing on methodological and theoretical issues, as well as a wealth of case
studies ranging from Roman Britain and classical Greece, to colonial Africa,
Brazil and the USA, the chapters in this book ‘answer back from the edge’. They
argue that recent work focusing on the mechanisms of European colonialism
and the emergence of a capitalist world system tends to produce a one-sided
history excluding the diverse traditions and practices that once shaped people’s
lives. To counteract this tendency they suggest that the pre-colonial antecedents
of modern capitalism and European colonialism should be explored, and that
oral and ethnographic evidence should be used in conjunction with written and
material sources.
A number mon themes run through the volume, including the relationships
between material culture, power and identity, between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’,
and between the past and the present. However, universalizing definitions of
concepts such as colonialism or power and identity have been avoided in favour
of research into the local manifestation of these phenomena in diverse social
and historical contexts.
Historical Archaeology will be of interest to students and scholars of archaeology,
history and anthropology, as well as professionals in the spheres of heritage and
cultural resource management.
Pedro Paulo is Professor of Historical Archaeology, University of
Campinas, Brazil. Martin Hall is Professor of Historical Archaeology, University
of Cape Town, South Africa. Siân Jones is Lecturer in Archaeology, University
of Manchester, United Kingdom.
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