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Monuments And Memory - Archaeological Perspectives On Commemoration

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 Examines many different public monuments to increase understanding of the cultural factors that have shaped their creation, maintenance, andâ€"in some casesâ€"removal. The role of monuments in communities and society continues to be an important and controversial topic and these case studies contribute to this conversation from a range of perspectives.
Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, And The Experience Of War - Beyond The Battlefield

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 Presents approaches to the archaeology of war that move beyond the forensic analysis of battlefields, fortifications, and other sites of conflict to consider the historical memory, commemoration, and social experience of war.
Heritage And Democracy - Crisis, Critique, And Collaboration

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 Reaching across disciplines and national boundaries, this volume examines cultural heritage work within the context of both democratic institutions and democratic practices, including participatory, deliberative, and direct democratic practices. Case studies highlight how democratic politics and cultural heritage impact and depend upon one another.
Baseball And Cultural Heritage

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 Baseballâ€™s past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its history. This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball - how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today.
Cuban Cultural Heritage - A Rebel Past For A Revolutionary Nation

by Pablo Alonso González

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 Offers a detailed look at the function and place of cultural heritage under socialist states, and explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba.
Artistic Provenance Research

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 Proposing the new term â€" Artistic Provenance Research â€" the book reveals art's capacity to expand provenance research in critical and provocative ways.
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Memory And Power At L’Hermitage Plantation - Heritage Of A Nervous Landscape

by Megan M. Bailey

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 Uses archaeological data and historical records to document the treatment of enslaved people at Lâ€™Hermitage Plantation in Maryland. Megan Bailey uses the concept of the â€˜nervous landscapeâ€™ - a space where power is not absolute and resistance possible - to show how the Vincendiere familyâ€™s fear of losing control drove their brutality.
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Memory And Power At L'Hermitage Plantation - Heritage Of A Nervous Landscape

by Megan M. Bailey

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 Uses archaeological data and historical records to document the treatment of enslaved people at Lâ€™Hermitage Plantation in Maryland. Megan Bailey uses the concept of the â€˜nervous landscapeâ€™ - a space where power is not absolute and resistance possible - to show how the Vincendiere familyâ€™s fear of losing control drove their brutality.
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Ancestors Of Worthy Life - Plantation Slavery And Black Heritage At Mount Clare

by Teresa S. Moyer

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 Recognizing the lives of the enslaved at the historic site of Mount Clare Enslaved African Americans helped transform the United States economy, culture, and history. Yet these individuals' identities, activities, and sometimes their very existence are often all but expunged from historically preserved plantations and house museums. Reluctant to show and interpret the homes and lives of the enslaved, many sites have never shared the stories of the African Americans who once lived and worked on their land. One such site is Mount Clare near Baltimore, Maryland, where Teresa Moyer pulls no punches in her critique of racism in historic preservation.In her balanced discussion, Moyer examines the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free Black people, and white landowners. Her work draws on evidence from archaeology, history, geology, and other fields to explore the ways that white privilege continues to obscure the contributions of Black people at Mount Clare. She demonstrates that a landscape's post-emancipation history can make a powerful statement about Black heritage. Ultimately she argues that the inclusion of enslaved persons in the history of these sites would honor these "ancestors of worthy life," make the social good of public history available to African Americans, and address systemic racism in America.Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Eating In The Side Room - Food, Archaeology, And African American Identity

by Mark S. Warner

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 Warner uses the archaeological data on food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, as the point of departure for a broader look at the centrality of material culture in the construction of African identity in America.
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Critical Theory And The Anthropology Of Heritage Landscapes

by Melissa F. Baird

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 Explores the sociopolitical contexts of heritage landscapes, paying special attention to sites with deep indigenous histories. Drawing on the emerging field of critical heritage theory and the concept of ""resource frontiers"", Melissa Baird shows how these landscapes are sites of power and control and are increasingly used in development and extractive projects.
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The Valkyries’ Loom - The Archaeology Of Cloth Production And Female Power In The North Atlantic

by Michele Hayeur Smith

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 Uses textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societies. Michele Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the ninth century AD.
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The Valkyries' Loom - The Archaeology Of Cloth Production And Female Power In The North Atlantic

by Michele Hayeur Smith

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 Uses textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societies. Michele Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the ninth century AD.
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Cuban Cultural Heritage - A Rebel Past For A Revolutionary Nation

by Pablo Alonso González

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 Explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba. Pablo Alonso Gonzalez illustrates how political and ideological shifts have influenced ideas about heritage and how, in turn, heritage has been used by different social actors to consolidate political regimes.
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A Struggle For Heritage - Archaeology And Civil Rights In A Long Island Community

by Christopher N. Matthews

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 Based on ten years of collaborative, community-based research, this book examines race and racism in a mixed-heritage Native American and African American community on Long Islandâ€™s north shore.
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Race, Place, And Memory - Deep Currents In Wilmington, North Carolina

by Margaret M. Mulrooney

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 A revealing work of public history that shows how communities remember their pasts to fit specific narratives, this book charts the ebb and flow of racial tension in Wilmington, North Carolina, from the 1730s to the present. Margaret Mulrooney argues that while the city has celebrated its white colonial revolutionary origins, it has ignored the revolutionary acts of its African American citizens.
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Earth Politics And Intangible Heritage - Three Case Studies In The Americas

by Jessica Joyce Christie

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 Focusing on three communities in North, Central, and South America, Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage layers archaeological research with local knowledge in its interpretations of these cultural landscapes.
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Struggle For Heritage - Archaeology And Civil Rights In A Long Island Community

by Christopher N. Matthews

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 Based on ten years of collaborative, community-based research, this book examines the history of race and racism in a mixed-heritage Native American and African American community on Long Island's North Shore, demonstrating how archaeology can be an activist voice for a vulnerable population's civil rights.
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History And Approaches To Heritage Studies

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 As more and more people are recognizing the need for accurately representing the story of the United States in public narratives, especially those told at museums and historic landmarks, heritage studies is emerging as an important program of study in universities across the country. These two collections are timely and valuable resources on the theory and practice of heritage education and its relationship to the discipline of archaeology. History and Approaches to Heritage Studies explores the historical development of cultural heritage theory and practice, as well as current issues in the field. This volume brings together archaeologists who are deeply engaged with a range of stakeholders in heritage management and training. Chapters contain useful reflections on working with descendant communities, local residents, community partners, and students in a variety of settings. With a focus on pedagogy throughout, topics include the importance of critical thinking skills, how technology has transformed education, gender issues in archaeology, minorities in heritage careers, NAGPRA and ethics education, archaeology field schools, and e-learning. Pedagogy and Practice in Heritage Studies presents teaching strategies for helping students think critically about the meanings of the past today. In these case studies, experienced teachers discuss ways to integrate heritage studies values into archaeology curricula, illustrating how the fields enrich each other. They argue that encouraging empathy can lead to awareness of the continuity between past and present, reflection on contemporary cultural norms, and engagement with issues of social and climate justice. These practical examples model ways to introduce diverse perspectives on history in pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate contexts. Emphasizing the importance of heritage studies principles and active learning in archaeological education, these handbooks provide tools to equip archaeologists and heritage professionals with collaborative, community-based, and activist approaches to the past. Volumes in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel
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Mythic Frontiers - Remembering, Forgetting, And Profiting With Cultural Heritage Tourism

by Daniel R Maher

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 "Maher explores the development of the Frontier Complex as he deconstructs the frontier myth in the context of manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, and white male privilege. A very significant contribution to our understanding of how and why heritage sites reinforce privilege."--Frederick H. Smith, author of The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking"Peels back the layer of dime westerns and True Grit films to show how their mythologies are made material. You''ll never experience a ''heritage site'' the same way again."--Christine Bold, author of The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of the embellished past visitors expect to see and serve to craft a cultural memory that reinforces contemporary ideologies.In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past, especially those of the "American frontier," have been used to turn a profit. These imagined historical sites have effectively silenced the violent, oppressive, colonizing forces of manifest destiny and elevated principal architects of it to mythic heights. Examining the frontier complex in Fort Smith, Arkansas--where visitors are greeted at a restored brothel and the reconstructed courtroom and gallows of "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker feature prominently--Maher warns that creating a popular tourist narrative and disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.Daniel R. Maher is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith.
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Excavating Memory - Sites Of Remembering And Forgetting

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 In this compelling study, Maria Theresia Starzmann and John Roby bring together an international cast of experts who move beyond the traditional framework of the "constructed past" to look at not only how the past is remembered but also who remembers it. They convincingly argue that memory is a complex process, shaped by remembering and forgetting, inscription and erasure, presence and absence. Collective memory influences which stories are told over others, ultimately shaping narratives about identity, family, and culture.This interdisciplinary volume--melding anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and archival studies--explores such diverse arenas as archaeological objects, human remains, colonial landscapes, public protests, national memorials, art installations, testimonies, and even digital space as places of memory. Examining important sites of memory, including the Victory Memorial to Soviet Army, Blair Mountain, Spanish penitentiaries, African shrines, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the contributors highlight the myriad ways communities reinforce or reinterpret their pasts.
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Ancestors Of Worthy Life - Plantation Slavery And Black Heritage At Mount Clare

by Teresa S. Moyer

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 Despite the contributions of enslaved African Americans to our country’s economy, culture, and history, records of their existence are all but expunged from plantation sites, which are reluctant to show and interpret the homes and lives of the enslaved. One such site is Mount Clare near Baltimore, Maryland, where Teresa Moyer’s work examines the lives of the plantation’s enslaved and investigates the issues keeping these findings from being publicly presented.In this balanced discussion of racialized practice at historic site museums, Moyer presents a rich and contextualized study of the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free blacks, and white landowners. She demonstrates that inclusive interpretation of plantation and other historic house museum sites can be done. Moyer argues that the inclusion of enslaved persons in the history of these sites would honor those "ancestors of worthy note," make the social good of public history available to African Americans, and address systemic racism in America.
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An Archaeology Of Structural Violence - Life In A Twentieth-Century Coal Town

by Michael P. Roller

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 "Brilliantly underscores how the manifestations of modern alienation and social inequality must be at the center of any truly anthropological analysis in the twenty-first century. This fantastic volume makes us comprehend the immense complexities of violent modernity and will compel us to critically interrogate our past, our present, and our future."—Daniel O. Sayers, author of A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp Drawing on material evidence from daily life in a coal-mining town, this book offers an up-close view of the political economy of the United States over the course of the twentieth century. This community’s story illustrates the great ironies of this era, showing how modernist progress and plenty were inseparable from the destructive cycles of capitalism. At the heart of this book is one of the bloodiest yet least-known acts of labor violence in American history, the 1897 Lattimer Massacre, in which 19 striking immigrant mineworkers were killed and 40 more were injured. Michael Roller looks beneath this moment of outright violence at the everyday material and spatial conditions that supported it, pointing to the growth of shanty enclaves on the periphery of the town that reveal the reliance of coal companies on immigrant surplus labor. Roller then documents the changing landscape of the region after the event as the anthracite coal industry declined, as well as community redevelopment efforts in the late twentieth century. This rare sustained geographical focus and long historical view illuminates the rise of soft forms of power and violence over workers, citizens, and consumers between the late 1800s and the present day. Roller expertly blends archaeology, labor history, ethnography, and critical social theory to demonstrate how the archaeology of the recent past can uncover the deep foundations of today’s social troubles. Michael P. Roller is a research affiliate of the Anthropology Department of the University of Maryland. Currently, he is employed as an archaeologist for the National Park Service. A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel
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Rosewood Massacre - An Archaeology And History Of Intersectional Violence

by Edward Gonzalez-Tennant

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 Investigates the 1923 massacre that devastated the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. The town was burned to the ground by neighbouring whites, and its citizens fled for their lives. None of the perpetrators were convicted. Very little documentation of the event and the ensuing court hearings survives today.
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