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| The Archaeology of Place and Space in the West
ISBN: 9781647690489
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Utah Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: History;
Historical archaeologists explore landscapes in the American West through many lenses, including culture contact, colonialism, labor, migration, and identity. This volume sets landscape at the center of analysis, examining space (a geographic location) and place (the lived experience of a locale) in their myriad permutations. Divided into three thematic sections--the West as space, the West as community, and the West today--the book pulls together case studies from across the American West and incorporates multivocal contributions and perspectives from archaeology, anthropology, Indigenous studies, history, Latinx studies, geography, and material culture studies.
Contributors tackle questions of how historical archaeologists theoretically and methodologically define the West, conveying the historical, mythological, and physical manifestations of placemaking. They confront issues of community and how diverse ethnic, racial, gendered, labor-based, and other demographic populations expressed their identities on and in the Western landscape. Authors also address the continued creation and re-creation of the West today, exploring the impact of the past on people in the present and its influence on modern conceptions of the American West.
Emily Dale is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. She was guest editor of a thematic issue of Kiva entitled "New Perspectives on the American Southwest: Historical Archaeology of the 1800s and 1900s." Carolyn L. White holds the Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation and is the director of the Anthropology Research Museum at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her most recent book is The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City. |
