Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Historical Archaeology as Modern-World Archaeology in Argentina

  • Published:
International Journal of Historical Archaeology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Historical archaeology has grown at a remarkable pace in the last decade. South America has seen a major growth in historical archaeology, with archaeologists in Argentina playing a large role in the maturation of the discipline on the continent. Much of this archaeology can be characterized as “modern-world archaeology” because of the archaeologists’ interest in issues relevant to post-Columbian cultural history.

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

Access this article

Log in via an institution

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

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Ballent A, Podgorny I (1994) How Argentinian urban children learn to live in the city: the image of town and domestic life in Argentinian school-books, 1910–1955. Historical Archaeology in Latin America 3:83–107

    Google Scholar 

  • Chase-Dunn C (1989) Global formation: structures of the world-economy. Blackwell, Oxford

    Google Scholar 

  • Chase-Dunn C, Anderson EN (2005) The historical evolution of world-systems. Palgrave Macmillan, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • De Certeau M (1984) The practice of everyday life. Rendall S (trans.). University of California Press, Berkeley

    Google Scholar 

  • Eckert A, Jones A (2002) Historical writing about everyday life. J Afr Cult Stud 15:5–16

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Egmond F, Mason P (1997) The mammoth and the mouse: microhistory and morphology. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

    Google Scholar 

  • Frank AG (1998) ReOrient: global economy in the Asian age. University of California Press, Berkeley

    Google Scholar 

  • Funari PPA (1996) Historical archaeology in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. World Archaeological Bulletin 7:51–62

    Google Scholar 

  • Funari PPA (1998) Arqueologia, história e arqueologia histórica no contexto sul-americano. In: Funari PPA (ed) Coleção Idéias: Cultura Material e Arqueologia Histórica, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, pp 7–34

    Google Scholar 

  • Funari PPA (2007) A report on historical archaeology publications in Latin America. Int J Hist Archaeol 11:183–191

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Funari PPA, Brittez FR (eds) (2006) Arqueologia Histórica en América Latina: Temas y Discusiones Recientes. Ediciones Suárez, Mar del Plata

  • Gelichi S (2006) The archaeology of an abandoned town: the 2005 project in Stari Bar. All’Insegna del Giglio, Venice

    Google Scholar 

  • Ginzburg C (1992) The cheese and the worms: the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller. Tedeschi J, Tedeschi A (trans.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

    Google Scholar 

  • Ginzburg C, Poni C (1991) The name and the game: unequal exchange and the historiographic marketplace. In: Muir E, Ruggiero G (eds) Microhistory and the lost peoples of Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp 1–10

    Google Scholar 

  • Gómez Romero F (1996) Un piso de ocupación del Fortín Miñana. Historical Archaeology in Latin America 14:137–142

    Google Scholar 

  • Gómez Romero F (1999) “Sobre lo Arado: El Pasado,” Arqueología Histórica en los alrededores del Fortín Miñana (1860–1869). Editorial Biblos, Azul

    Google Scholar 

  • Gómez Romero F (2005a) A brief overview of the evolution of historical archaeology in Argentina. Int J Hist Archaeol 9:135–141

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gómez Romero F (2005b) The archaeology of the gaucho: “vago y mal entretenido”. Int J Hist Archaeol 9:143–164

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gómez Romero F, Ramos M (1994) “Miñana” Fortlet: historical archaeology research. Historical Archaeology in Latin America 2:15–30

    Google Scholar 

  • Goody J (2006) The theft of history. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Gregory BS (1999) Is small beautiful? Microhistory and the history of everyday life. Hist Theory 38:100–110

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hobsbawn EJ (1985) History from below: some reflections. In: Krantz F (ed) History from below: studies in popular protest and popular ideology in honour of george rudé. Concordia University, Montreal, pp 63–73

    Google Scholar 

  • Levi G (2001) On microhistory. In: Burke P (ed) New perspectives on historical writing, 2nd ed. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, pp 91–119

    Google Scholar 

  • Lüdtke A (ed) (1995) The history of everyday life: reconstructing historical experiences and ways of life. Templer W (trans.). Princeton University Press, Princeton

  • Muir E (1991) Introduction: observing trifles. In: Muir E, Ruggiero G (eds) Microhistory and the lost peoples of Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp vii–xxviii

    Google Scholar 

  • Murray WE (2006) Geographies of globalization. Routledge, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Niccoli O (1991) The kings of the dead on the battlefields of Agnadello. In: Muir E, Ruggiero G (eds) Microhistory and the lost peoples of Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp 71–100

    Google Scholar 

  • Orser CE Jr (1996) A historical archaeology of the modern world. Plenum, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Orser CE Jr (1999) Negotiating our “familiar” pasts. In: Tarlow S, West S (eds) The familiar past?: archaeologies of later historical Britain. Routledge, London, pp 273–285

    Google Scholar 

  • Orser CE Jr (2004a) The archaeologies of recent history: historical, post-medieval, and modern-world. In: Bintliff J (ed) A companion to archaeology. Blackwell, Oxford, pp 272–290

    Google Scholar 

  • Orser CE Jr (2004b) Historical archaeology, 2nd edn. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey

    Google Scholar 

  • Orser CE Jr (2004c) Race and practice in archaeological interpretation. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Google Scholar 

  • Orser CE Jr (2005) Network theory and the archaeology of the modern world. In: Funari PP, Zarankin A, Stovel E (eds) Global archaeological theory: contextual voices and contemporary thoughts. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, pp 77–95

    Google Scholar 

  • Orser CE Jr (2007) The global and the local in modern-world archaeology. In: Gelichi S, Librenti M (eds) Constructing post medieval archaeology in Italy: a new agenda. Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice (in press)

  • Politis GG (2003) The theoretical landscape and the methodological development of archaeology in Latin America. Am Antiq 68:245–272

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pomeranz K (2000) The great divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy. Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Google Scholar 

  • Schávelzon D (1991) Arquelogía Histórica de Buenos Aires, I: La Cultura Material Porteña de Los Siglos XVIII y XIX. Corregidor, Buenos Aires

    Google Scholar 

  • Schávelzon D (2000) The historical archaeology of Buenos Aires: a city at the end of the world. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Schmidt PR, Walz JR (2007) Re-representing African pasts through historical archaeology. Am Antiq 72:53–70

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sharpe J (2001) History from below. In: Burke P (ed) New perspectives on historical writing. 2nd edn. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, pp 25–42

    Google Scholar 

  • Silberman NA (1995) Sultans, merchants, and minorities: the challenge of historical archaeology in the modern Middle East. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C.

  • Taylor WW (1948) A study of archaeology. American anthropological association memoir 69. Washington, D.C.

  • Wallerstein I (1974) The modern world-system: capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century. Academic, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Wallerstein I (1979) The capitalist world-economy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Wallerstein I (1980) The modern world-system II: mercantilism and the consolidation of the European world-economy, 1600–1750. Academic, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Wasserman S, Faust K (1994) Social network analysis: methods and applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Zarankin A (1994) Arqueología urbana: hacia de desarrollo de una Nueva Especialidad. Historical Archaeology in Latin America 2:31–40

    Google Scholar 

  • Zarankin A (1995) Arqueología histórica urbana en Santa Fe La Vieja: el final del principio. Historical Archaeology in Latin America 10:1–114

    Google Scholar 

  • Zarankin A (1996) Una aproximación teórica al trabajo en arqueologí urbana. Historical Archaeology in Latin America 14:161–167

    Google Scholar 

  • Zarankin A, Niro C (2006) La materialización del sadismo: arqueología de la arquitectura de los Centros Clandestinos de Detención de la dictadura militar Argentina (1976–1983). In: Funari PPA, Zarankin A (ed) Arqueología de la Represión y la Resistencia en América Latina. Encuentro, Cordoba, pp 159–182

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

I wish to acknowledge my debt of gratitude to Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Facundo Gómez Romero for the many discussions I have had with both of them. They have helped me understand the nature and promise of historical archaeology in South America. Though I have learned a great deal from both of them, the comments expressed here are entirely my own.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Research and Collections Division, New York State Museum, 3140 Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY, 12230, USA

    Charles E. Orser Jr.

Authors
  1. Charles E. Orser Jr.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Charles E. Orser Jr..

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Orser, C.E. Historical Archaeology as Modern-World Archaeology in Argentina. Int J Histor Archaeol 12, 181–194 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-008-0052-z

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-008-0052-z

Keywords

Search

Navigation