Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge Book

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	Preface
1	Introduction: archaeology in history	1
	Archaeology and history: an ambivalent relationship	21
2	Rethinking historical archaeology	23
3	Historical archaeology from a world perspective	37
4	Research trends in the historical archaeology of Zimbabwe	67
5	The seance of 27 August 1889 and the problem of historical consciousness	85
	Archaeologies of domination and resistance	97
6	Gender, symbolism and power in Iberian societies	99
7	The tyranny of the text: lost social strategies in current historical period archaeology in the classical Mediterranean	122
8	The imperial context of Romano-British studies and proposals for a new understanding of social change	137
9	Class and rubbish	151
10	Proto-colonial archaeology: the case of Elizabethan Ireland	164
11	West India: iconographic documents from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in Brazil	180
12	Subaltern voices? Finding the spaces between things and words	193
13	On rejecting the concept of socio-economic status in historical archaeology	204
	Issues of identity, nationalism and ethnicity	217
14	Historical categories and the praxis of identity: the interpretation of ethnicity in historical archaeology	219
15	Lost kingdoms: oral histories, travellers' tales and archaeology in southern Madagascar	233
16	Pidgin English: historical archaeology, cultural exchange and the Chinese in the Rocks, 1890-1930	255
17	The formation of ethnic-American identities: Jewish communities in Boston	284
18	Maroon, race and gender: Palmares material culture and social relations in a runaway settlement	308
19	Black identity and sense of past in Brazilian national culture	328
	Index	345