Questions that Will Count in the Future: Global Perspectives on Historical Archaeology

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

At the Annual Meetings of the Society for Historical Archaeology held in Savannah, Georgia in 1987, the plenary session of the meetings was devoted to ‘Questions that Count’. The goal of the session was to discuss substantive, methodological, epistemological, and theoretical questions that a small group of practitioners in the field had found useful in framing their own research. Copies of these papers were published in the society journal in 1988. Since that time the field of Historical Archaeology has grown in scope and influence. With an increasingly global reach Historical Archaeology is expanding into new geographical areas and pursuing ever more sophisticated theoretical and historical questions. This session presents a series of perspectives that reflect different theoretical and regional issues that may serve to expand the intellectual breadth of the field as a whole. In some instances co-authored presentations are designed to develop comparative perspectives that can hopefully serve as models for research across the globe.

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  1. Beyond Change and Continuity, Beyond Historical Archaeology (2014)
  2. Consuming Diaspora: 21st-Century Archaeologies of Finnish Transnationalism (2014)
  3. Culture, Community, and a Cruise Ship: Black Feminist Archaeology in a Caribbean Context (2014)
  4. The Empire Reloaded: Portuguese archaeology, lusotropicalism and the new age of discovery (2014)
  5. Europe and the New Worlds of the Americas (2014)
  6. Historical archaeology from a Latin American perspective (2014)
  7. A Historical Archaeology of the Anthropocene (2014)
  8. Intersection and Interaction Among Communities of Practice in the Spanish Colonial American Southwest (2014)
  9. Material Turns in Caribbean Archaeology (2014)
  10. Mobility and Historical Gravity: Space, Entanglement and Movement in a Collaborative World (2014)
  11. Modernity, Identity, and Materiality across the Ottoman Empire: Putting the Pieces Together (2014)
  12. New Collaborations, New Perspectives, New Questions: Sweden and the Modern Atlantic World (2014)
  13. Postcolonial New Materialist Archaeologies: (Questionable?) Questions that Count in Mesoamerican Historical Archaeology (2014)
  14. Proto-World Systems, Long Term Sustainability, and Early Resource Colonies: Examples from the North Atlantic (2014)
  15. Questioning Capitalism (2014)
  16. Questions that Count in Australia, 2014 (2014)
  17. Rethinking the Concept of ‘Marginalized’ Indians: An example from Southern New England (2014)
  18. Travel accounts, oral tradition and archaeological data: Three sources of information on XVIth C. European and Inuit encounters (2014)
  19. Turning the Archaeology of Colonialism on its Head (2014)
  20. Weighing in on Multi-scalar Approaches (2014)
  21. What Questions Must be Asked to Engage Africans in Their Pasts? (2014)
  22. When questions and answers really count: historical archaeology, conflict resolution, and sustainability (2014)
  23. Will Historical Archaeology Escape its Western Prejudices to Become Relevant to Africa? (2014)