Historical Archaeology; Oral History; Space and Place (Other Keyword)
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A Tale of Two Places in D’Hanis, TX: Combining Linguistic Anthropology and Historical Archaeology to Study Place-Making on the Texas Frontier (2018)
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In this paper, I discuss an archaeological approach to place-making that incorporates elements of linguistic anthropology, drawing from narrative analysis and Bakhtin’s chronotope to analyze oral histories from a small town in southwest Texas. D’Hanis originated as an Alsatian colony on the Texas frontier, one of four settled by empresario Henry Castro in the 1840s. By the 20th century, the town had not simply transformed but moved – the railroad had caused a rupture in the settlement that...