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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 of common 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 A.Funari 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.

ONE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

Series Editor: P.J.Ucko

Animals into Art

H.Morphy (ed.), vol. 7

Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity

S.J.Shennan (ed.), vol. 10

Archaeological Heritage Management in the

Modern World

H.F.Cleere (ed.), vol. 9

Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape

P.Ucko & R.Layton (eds), vol. 30

Archaeology and Language I: theoretical and

methodological orientations

R.Blench & M.Spriggs (eds), vol. 27

Archaeology and Language II: archaeological data

and linguistic hypotheses

R.Blench & M.Spriggs (eds), vol. 29

Archaeology and the Information Age: a global

perspective

P.Reilly & S.Rahtz (eds), vol. 21

The Archaeology of Africa: food, metals and

towns

T.Shaw, P.Sinclair, B.Andah & A.Okpoko (eds),

vol. 20

Centre and Periphery: comparative studies in

archaeology

T.C.Champion (ed.), vol. 11

Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions

R.Layton (ed.), vol. 8

Domination and Resistance

D.Miller, M.J.Rowlands & C.Tilley (eds), vol. 3

Early Human Behaviour in the Global Context

M.Petraglia & R.Korisettar (eds), vol. 28

The Excluded Past: archaeology in education

P.Stone & R.MacKenzie (eds), vol. 17

Foraging and Farming: the evolution of plant

exploitation

D.R.Harris & G.C.Hillman (eds), vol. 13

From the Baltic to the Black Sea: studies in

medieval archaeology

D.Austin & L.Alcock (eds), vol. 18

Hunters of the Recent Past

L.B.Davis & B.O.K.Reeves (eds), vol. 15

The Meanings of Things: material culture and

symbolic expression

I.Hodder (ed.), vol. 6

The Origins of Human Behaviour

R.A.Foley (ed.), vol. 19

The Politics of the Past

P.Gathercole & D.Lowenthal (eds), vol. 12

The Prehistory of Food: appetites for change

C.Gosden & J.Hather (eds), vol. 32

The Presented Past: heritage, museums and

education

G.Stone & B.L.Molyneaux (eds), vol. 25

Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

D.L.Carmichael, J.Hubert, B.Reeves &

A.Schanche (eds), vol. 23

Signifying Animals: human meaning in the

natural world

R.G.Willis (ed.), vol. 16

Social Construction of the Past: representation

as power

G.C.Bond & A.Gilliam (eds), vol. 24

State and Society: the emergence and

development of social hierarchy and political

centralization

J.Gledhill, B.Bender & M.T.Larsen (eds),

vol. 4

Time, Process and Structured Transformation

in Archaeology

S.E.van der Leeuw & J.McGlade (eds), vol. 26

Tropical Archaeobotany: applications and

developments

J.G.Hather (ed.), vol. 22

The Walking Larder: patterns of

domestication, pastoralism, and predation

J.Clutton-Brock (ed.), vol. 2

What is an Animal?

T.Ingold (ed.), vol. 1

What’s New? A closer look at the process of

innovation

S.E.van der Leeuw & R.Torrence (eds),

vol. 14

Who Needs the Past? Indigenous values and

archaeology

R.Layton (ed.), vol. 5

HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Back from the edge

Edited by

Pedro Paulo A.Funari, Martin Hall

and Siân Jones

London and New York

First published 1999

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Pedro Paulo A.Funari, Martin Hall and Siân Jones;

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,

including photocopying and recording, or in any information

storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from

the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Historical archaeology: back from the edge/edited by

Pedro Paulo A.Funari, Martin Hall and Siân Jones.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Archaeology and history—Congresses. I. Funari,

Pedro Paulo A.

II. Hall, Martin, 1952– . III. Jones, S. (Siân), 1968– .

CC77.H5H574 1999

98–22313

930.1–dc21

CIP

ISBN 0-203-20881-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-26713-3 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-11787-9 (hbk)

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