Abstract
The findings, interpretation, and ultimate meaning associated with any archaeological study are the cumulative result of the theoretical frameworks and methodological choices employed by archaeologists throughout the course of study, regardless of whether these assumptions and conditions are explicitly or implicitly recognized (see for example Hodder and Hutson 2003; Shanks and Tilley 1987, 1992; Trigger 2006). That is to say that no work of archaeological interpretation is completely objective or value neutral. This of course does not imply that we should not strive for objectivity through the use of sound theoretical and methodological frameworks and a healthy dose of self-reflection.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Abu-Lughod, J. 1989 Before European Hegemony: The World System, A.D. 1250–350. Oxford University Press, New York.
Aufhauser, R. K. 1973 Slavery and Scientific Management. Journal of Economic History 33:811–824.
Blanton, R and Gary Feinman 1984 The Mesoamerican World System. American Anthropologist 86:673–682.
Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Thomas Hall 1997 Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
Cline, Howard 1947 Regionalism and Society in Yucatán, 1825–1850. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Harvard University, Cambridge.
Cooke, Bill 2003 The Denial of Slavery in Management Studies. Journal of Management Studies 40:1895–1918.
Crosby, Alfred W. 1972 The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Connecticut.
Dunaway, Wilma A. 2001 The Double Register of History: Situating the Forgotten Woman and Her Household in Capitalist Commodity Chains. Journal of World-Systems Research 7(1):2–29.
Emmanuel, Arghiri 1972 Unequal Exchange. Monthly Review Press, New York.
Ferguson, Leland 1992 Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650–1800. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
Follett, Richard J. 2005 The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge.
Frank, Andre Gunder and Barry Gills 1993 The World-System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? Routledge, New York.
Graeber, David 2006 Turning Modes of Production Inside Out: or, Why Capitalism is a Transformation of Slavery. Critique of Anthropology 26(1):61–85.
Hodder, Ian and Scott Hutson 2003 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Hopkins, Terence K. and Immanuel Wallerstein 1986 Commodity Chains in the World-Economy Prior to 1800. Review 10(1):157–170.
Johnson, Walter 2004 The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question. Journal of the Early Republic 24(2):299–308.
Joseph, Gilbert 1986 Rediscovering the Past at Mexico’s Periphery: Essays on the History of Modern Yucatán. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Korzeniewicz, Roberto P. and William Martin 1994 The Global Distribution of Commodity Chains. In Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism, edited by Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz, pp. 67–91, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
Laclau, Ernesto 1971 Feudalism and Capitalism in Latin America. New Left Review 67:1l9–38.
Marx, Karl 1965 Capital. Translated by Moore, S. and Aveling, E. Progress Publishers, Moscow.
Marx, Karl 1967 Capital, 3 volumes. International Publishers, NY.
Marx, Karl 1970 The German Ideology. International Publishers, New York.
McMichael, Philip 1991 Slavery in Capitalism: The Rise and Demise of the U.S. Ante-Bellum Cotton Culture. Theory and Society 20(3):321–349.
Mintz, Sidney 1985 Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Penguin Books, New York.
Orser, Charles E., Jr. 1988 The Archaeological Analysis of Plantation Society: Replacing Status and Caste with Economics and Power. American Antiquity 53(4):735–751.
Orser, Charles E, Jr. and Pedro P.A. Funari 2001 Archaeology and Slave Resistance and Rebellion. World Archaeology 33(1):61–72.
Peregrine, Peter and Gary Feinman 1996 Pre-Columbian World Systems. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin.
Polanyi, Karl 1967 The Great Transformation. Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts.
Roseberry, William 1983 Coffee and Capitalism in the Venezuelan Andes. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Anthropologies and Histories: Essays in Culture, History, and Political Economy. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick.
Rowlands, M. J. and Kristian Kristiansen 1987 Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World. University of Cambridge Press, Cambridge.
Schneider, Jane 1977 Was There a Pre-Capitalist World System? Peasant Studies 6:20–29.
Schor, Juliet 1998 The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need. Harper Collins Publishers, New York.
Schortman, Edward and Pat Urban 1987 Modeling Interregional Interaction in Prehistory. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by Michael Schiffer, pp. 37–95. Academic Press, New York.
Shannon, Thomas 1989 An Introduction to the World-System Perspective. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
Singleton, Theresa A. 1995 The Archaeology of Slavery in North America. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:119–140.
Cultural Interaction and African American Identity in Plantation Archaeology. In Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology edited by James G. Cusick. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Papers No.25. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University.
a Race, Class, and Identity Among Free Blacks in the Antebellum South. In The Archaeology of Race and Identity, edited by Charles E Orser, Jr. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake.
b Slavery and Spatial Dialectics on Cuban Coffee Plantations. World Archaeology 33(1):98–114.
Smith, Mark M. 1996 Time, Slavery and Plantation Capitalism in the Ante-Bellum American South. Past and Present 150:142–168.
Sweitz, Sam R. 2005 On the Periphery of the Periphery: Household Archaeology at Hacienda Tabi, Yucatán, Mexico. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Trade and Conflict in Plantation Systems: Perspectives on the Global in the Local. Paper presented at the 42nd annual Society for Historical Archaeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Toronto, Canada.
Trigger, Bruce 2006 A History of Archaeological Thought, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Wallerstein, Immanuel 1974 The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. Academic Press, New York.
The Capitalist World-Economy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
The Modern World System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750. Academic Press, New York.
Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization. Verso, New York.
The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730–1840s. Academic Press, San Diego.
Wells, Allen 1987 Yucatán’s Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860–1915. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Wilkie, Laurie 1995 Magic and Empowerment on the Plantation: An Archaeological Consideration of African-American World View. Southeastern Archaeology 14(2):136–148.
a Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African-American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1845–1950. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge.
b Culture Bought: Evidence of Creolization in the Consumer Goods of an Enslaved Bahamian Family. Historical Archaeology 34(3):10–26.
Wilkie, Laurie and Farnsworth, Paul 2005 Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Wolf, Eric 1982 Europe and the People Without History. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Sweitz, S.R. (2012). A Theoretical Context for Documenting Social Change in Yucatán: Changing Modes of Production and the Entry of the Yucatec Maya into the World System. In: On the Periphery of the Periphery. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1496-4_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1496-4_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-1495-7
Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-1496-4
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawSocial Sciences (R0)