‘O Brave New World’: Archaeologies of Changing Identities

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

Historical archaeology has been particularly concerned with how people form identities in new and challenging environments. Colonialism, capitalism and globalization create situations of displacement, replacement and difference. The papers in this session all deal with the ways in which people actively create, recreate, adjust and alter their identities using the material world. These questions are critical in trying to understand the world today, in which boundaries are simultaneously breaking down and being built up, and humans are constantly adapting to the ever-changing milieu.

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  1. Accommodating personalities: the role of purpose-built mill workers’ housing in communal identity (2014)
  2. Becoming Brooklyn (2014)
  3. Deconstructing a Marginalized Identity Formation: What the Built Environment of Dogtown Can Tell Us About Its Past and About Its Present (2014)
  4. Examining identity and personhood in the archaeological record: A case study from the Chief Richardville House (12AL1887) (2014)
  5. From Colony to Country: The archaeology of national identity formation at New York City’s South Street Seaport (2014)
  6. History, Capitalism and Identity: Archaeologies of the Future (2014)
  7. Living landscapes as transitions through time: the making of social identity in the north Atlantic isles (2014)
  8. The New York Irish: Fashioning urban identities in 19th-century New York City (2014)
  9. Prospects for understanding identity formation in culture contact situations in the Greater Los Angeles area (2014)
  10. A Tale of Two Trading Posts (2014)