Skip to main content
Log in

On the Politics and Possibilities for Operationalizing Vindicationist Historical Archaeologies

  • Forum
  • Published:
Historical Archaeology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

References

  • American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2002 El Dorado Task Force Papers, Vol. I. American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA <www.aaanet.org/edtf/final/vol_one.pdf>. Accessed 28 September 2006.

    Google Scholar 

  • Barnard, Alan 2000 History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Barth, Fredrik 1999 Reflections on Theory and Practice in Cultural Anthropology: Excerpts from Three Articles. In The Unity of Theory and Practice in Anthropology: Rebuilding a Fractured Synthesis, Carole E. Hill and Marietta L. Baba, editors, pp. 147–163. National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, Bulletin 18. Washington, DC.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Blakey, Michael L. 1997 Past Is Present: Comments on “In the Realm of Politics: Prospects for Public Participation in African-American Plantation Archaeology.” Historical Archaeology 31(3):140–145.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Blakey, Michael L. 1998 The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, A Construction of Ancestral Ties. Transforming Anthropology 7(1):53–58.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bourdieu, Pierre 1984 Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bourdieu, Pierre 2001 Structures, Habitus, and Practices. In Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Paul A. Erickson and Liam D. Murphy, editors, pp. 531–542. Broadview Press, Orchard Park, NY

    Google Scholar 

  • Combahee River Collective 1986 Combahee River Collective Statement. Buffalo State University, Buffalo, NY <http://www.buffalostate.edu/orgs/rspms/combahee.html>. Accessed 14 September 2006.

    Google Scholar 

  • Caplan, Pat 2003 Introduction: Anthropology and Ethics. In The Ethics of Anthropology: Debates and Dilemmas, Pat Caplan, editor, pp. 1–33. Routledge, London, England, UK.

    Google Scholar 

  • DeCorse, Christopher R. 1999 Oceans Apart: Africanist Perspectives on Diaspora Archaeology. In “I, Too, Am America”: Archaeological Studies of African American Life, Theresa A. Singleton, editor, pp. 132–155. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

    Google Scholar 

  • Engelstad, Ericka 1991 Images of Power and Contradiction: Feminist Theory and Post-Processual Archaeology. Antiquity 65(284):502–514.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Epperson, Terrence W. 1990 Race and the Disciplines of the Plantation. Historical Archaeology 24(4):29–36.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Foucault, Michel 2001 Truth and Power. In Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Paul A. Erickson and Liam D. Murphy, editors, pp. 514–532. Broadview Press, Orchard Park, NY.

    Google Scholar 

  • Franklin, Maria 1997 “Power to the People”: Sociopolitics and the Archaeology of Black Americans. Historical Archaeology 31(3):36–50.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Franklin, Maria 2001a The Archaeological Dimensions of Soul Food: Interpreting Race, Culture, and Afro-Virginian Identity. In Race and the Archaeology of Identity, Charles E. Orser, editor, pp. 88–107. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

    Google Scholar 

  • Franklin, Maria 2001b A Black Feminist-Inspired Archaeology? Journal of Social Archaeology 1(1):108–135.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fusco, Coco 2003 Racial Time, Racial Marks, Racial Metaphors. In Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, editors, pp. 13–49. Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hall, Stuart 1998 The Rediscovery of “Ideology.” In Literary Theory: An Anthology, Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, editors, pp. 1050–1064. Blackwell, Oxford, England, UK.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harrison, Faye V. 2002 Unraveling “Race” for the Twenty-First Century. In Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, Jeremy MacClancy, editor, pp. 145–166. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hertz, Ellen 1997 Comment on Nader, “Controlling Processes.” Current Anthropology 38(5):728–729.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hodder, Ian 2000 Agency and Individuals in Long-Term Processes. In Agency in Archaeology, Marcia-Anne Dobres and John E. Robb, editors, pp. 21–33. Routledge, London, England, UK.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hodder, Ian, and Scott Hudson 2003 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Jones, Siân 1997 The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present. Routledge, London, England, UK.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Joyce, Rosemary A. 2004 Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality. In A Companion to Social Archaeology, Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel, editors, pp. 82–95. Blackwell, Malden, MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leone, Mark P. 1996 Taxonomic Descriptions and Questions about Change: Comments on Papers by Barka and Hudgins. In The Archaeology of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Theodore R. Reinhart, editor, pp. 57–64. Archaeological Society of Virginia, Special Publication, No. 35. Courtland, VA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leone, Mark P., and Parker B. Potter, Jr. 1999 Where the Questions Come From. In Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr., editors, pp. 21–22. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Mahoney, Martha R. 1997 The Social Construction of Whiteness. In Critical White Studies: Looking behind the Mirror, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic, editors, pp. 330–333. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA.

    Google Scholar 

  • McClaurin, Irma 2001 Introduction: Forging a Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics of Black Feminist Anthropology. In Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics, Irma McClaurin, editor, pp. 1–23. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ.

    Google Scholar 

  • Meskell, Lynn 2000 Writing the Body in Archaeology. In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, Alison E. Rautman, editor, pp. 13–21. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

    Google Scholar 

  • Meskell, Lynn 2002 Intersections of Identity and Politics in Archaeology. Annual Reviews in Anthropology 31:279–301.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Meskell, Lynn, and Peter Pels (editors) 2005 Embedding Ethics. The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, NY.

    Google Scholar 

  • Meskell, Lynn, and Robert W. Preucel 2004 Identities. In A Companion to Social Archaeology, Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel, editors, pp. 121–141. Blackwell, Malden, MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mills, David 2003 “Like a Horse in Blinkers”? A Political History of Anthropology’s Research Ethics. In The Ethics of Anthropology: Debates and Dilemmas, Pat Caplan, editor, pp. 37–54. Routledge, London, England, UK.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mullins, Paul A. 1999 Race and Affluence: An Archaeology of African America and Consumer Culture. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nader, Laura 1999 Preface. In The Unity of Theory and Practice in Anthropology: Rebuilding a Fractured Synthesis, Carole E. Hill and Marietta L. Baba, editors, pp. v–vii. National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, Bulletin 18. Washington, DC.

    Google Scholar 

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2006 Our Mission. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD <http://www.naacp.org/about/mission/>. Accessed 2 October 2006.

    Google Scholar 

  • Neiman, Fraser D. 1997 Conspicuous Consumption as Wasteful Advertising:A Darwinian Perspective on Spatial Patterns in Classic Maya Terminal Monument Dates. In Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory and Archaeological Explanation, C. Michael Barton and Geoffrey A. Clark, editors, pp. 267–290. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 7. Washington, DC.

    Google Scholar 

  • Neiman, Fraser D. 1999a Colonial North America’s Consumer Revolution in Evolutionary Perspective. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

    Google Scholar 

  • Neiman, Fraser D. 1999b Dimensions of Ethnicity. In Historical Archaeology, Identity Formation, and the Interpretation of Ethnicity, Maria Franklin and Garrett Fesler, editors, pp. 139–149. The Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Perdue, Charles L., Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips (editors) 1976 Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

    Google Scholar 

  • Potter, Parker B., Jr. 1991 What Is the Use of Plantation Archaeology? Historical Archaeology 25(3):94–107.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rautman, Alison E., and Lauren E. Talalay 2000 Introduction: Diverse Approaches to the Study of Gender in Archaeology. In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, Alison E. Rautman, editor, pp. 1–12. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

    Google Scholar 

  • Richard, Amy O’Neill 1999 International Trafficking in Women to the United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime. DCI Exceptional Intelligence Analyst Program An Intelligence Monograph, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Washington, DC <https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/trafficking.pdf>.

    Google Scholar 

  • Samford, Patricia 1996 The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series 53(1):87–114.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schuyler, Robert L. (editor) 1978 Historical Archaeology: A Guide to Substantive and Theoretical Contributions. Baywood Publishing Company, Amityville, NY.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shaw, Carolyn Martin 2001 Disciplining the Black Female Body: Learning Feminism in Africa and the United States. In Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics, Irma McClaurin, editor, pp. 102–125. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ.

    Google Scholar 

  • Singleton, Theresa A., and Mark D. Bograd (compilers) 1995 The Archaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Guides to the Archaeological Literature of the Immigrant Experience in America, No. 2. Society for Historical Archaeology, California, PA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Terkel, Studs 1992 Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession. The New Press, New York, NY.

    Google Scholar 

  • Upton, Dell 1996 Ethnicity, Authenticity, and Invented Traditions. Historical Archaeology 30(2):1–7.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wilkie, Laurie A. 2000 Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1840–1950. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Bell, A. On the Politics and Possibilities for Operationalizing Vindicationist Historical Archaeologies. Hist Arch 42, 138–146 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03377078

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03377078

Navigation