The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2019

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr," at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Charles Orser is this year’s J. C. Harrington Award recipient. This session recognizes the themes, theoretical paradigms, and "haunting" contexts by which he transformed the direction and tenor of historical archaeology. Former students and colleagues will reflect on Charles Orser’s breadth of experience and influence on the field: African American and plantation archaeology in the U.S. South and Caribbean; historical archaeology in Brazil, Belize, Ireland, England; historical archaeology in the middle Mississippi valley, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, and Utah; and Marxian theoretical approaches, historical materialism, racialization studies, practice theory, multiscalar analysis, network theory, public archaeology, and commemoration of the past.

Other Keywords
Orser • Socioeconomic Status • Power • Ceramics • Architecture • Irrigation • Plantation • Canals • Fortifications • Civil War

Temporal Keywords
19th Century • 20th Century • 1700-1850 • 1700s to 1900s • Early modern: sixteenth to eighteenth century • Conquest/Early Colonial period • 1760-1950 • 1869 to 1972 • XVII to XIX

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • Massachusetts (State / Territory) • New York (State / Territory) • New Hampshire (State / Territory) • Idaho (State / Territory) • Maine (State / Territory) • Wisconsin (State / Territory) • Michigan (State / Territory) • Washington (State / Territory) • Minnesota (State / Territory)

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  • Ceramics and Socioeconomic Status: Insights from Janis-Ziegler Site (23SG272), Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith M Hawkins Trautt.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Janis-Ziegler site was occupied by two families of different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.  Excavations at the site have identified the presence of artifacts associated with an outbuilding and the main residence, including ceramics.  Economic scaling of ceramics has provided archaeologists...

  • Charles Orser and his Contributions to the Brazilian Historical Archaeology (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucio Menezes Ferreira. Pedro Paulo Funari.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Professor Orser has been important to Brazilian Historical Archaeology in many ways:  he has played an especially large role in detailing the subtleties of everyday resistance, mainly in his studies about "Quilombo dos Palmares"; he was the first American archaeologist (and the only one at this...

  • Chuck’s Stomping Grounds and Historical Archaeology’s Haunts: Or, How Charles Orser’s Work Haunts Me (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn E Sampeck.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chuck Orser has taken me all sorts of places, both geographic and intellectual. In fact, he has helped me see the value of connecting concept and place. This paper situates the sociopolitical dynamics of colonialism, Eurocentrism, capitalism, and modernity in their inescapably trans-Atlantic places by...

  • Finding Forts and Their Communities: CEO and His Two Cents (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary J. M. Beier.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While not a primary focus of his significant research agenda, colonial fortifications introduced a young Charles E. Orser, Jr. to the field of historical archaeology in the 1970s. Later, Orser noted that despite the long tradition of excavation and preservation at these prominent places,...

  • Forget Me Not: Charles Orser’s Unearthing of Hidden Ireland (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Hull.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1994, Charles Orser began a multi-year excavation program in County Roscommon, Ireland, that would help to legitimize the nascent field of post-medieval (modern-world) archaeology in the country. In a place rich with passage tombs and golden hordes, a focus on post-1700 deposits was unusual enough,...

  • The Global, the Local, and the Personal: Searching for Meaning and Relevancy Through Baltimore’s Past (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Fracchia.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In his study of the modern world, Charles Orser has suggested that archaeologists should dig locally, but think globally.  Relating different scales across space and time allows for an understanding of the linkages between the past and the present and the connectivity of the modern world.  Through...

  • Irish Folklore and Ceramic Pots: A Study of Irish Tenant Farmers (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only kate roberts.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. History and economics have dominated the events of the Great Famine that took place in Ireland mid-nineteenth century. Archaeology in recent years had been able to shed new light on the daily lives of Irish tenant farmers during this time. The archaeology has revealed that these farmers were not...

  • The Material Basis of the Caribbean Plantation Complex (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Delle.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid-1980s historical archaeology was still deeply mired in its pursuit to identify and define normative markers of patterned human behavior. At this moment in time, when historical archaeology perched on the precipice of processual irrelevance, Chuck Orser published his "The Material Basis of...

  • A Modern World Archaeology: Two Decades Later (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradley D Phillippi. Christopher N. Matthews.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Few have shaped the field of historical archaeology like Chuck Orser. His dedication to the discipline, contributions to archaeological theory and practice, and prolific and growing list of publications are foundations for scholarship in the field. Despite his evolving interests, Orser remains...

  • Modern-World Archaeology at Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William R. Fowler.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Founded in 1525, rapidly abandoned, and refounded in 1528, the first villa of San Salvador had a resident indigenous population many times greater than its Spanish population. Abandoned 1545-60, its brief occupation spans the crucial years of the Conquest period in Central America. The well-preserved...

  • The Politics of Practice Theory: Feminist Archaeology Meets Marx and Bourdieu (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth M Scott.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.             In his influential book Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation, Charles Orser provided arguably the clearest and most powerful explanation of the usefulness of Bourdieu’s practice theory for historical archaeologists.  Despite the use of practice theory for more than two...

  • Reintegrating a Traumatized Nation: Grief, Memory, and Reconciliation at Finnish Civil War Sites (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Timo Ylimaunu. Paul R. Mullins.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1918 Finland fought an enormously brutal civil war between "White" and "Red" factions. During and after the war, victorious White forces conducted mass executions and buried large numbers of Reds and their sympathizers in shared graves, but there was very little formal commemoration of that...

  • Success vs. Excess: The Historical Archaeology of Rural Outliers (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark D Groover.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The topic of this paper explores material life and economic strategies among rural outliers, defined as rural households that were very successful economically.  The examples in the paper are drawn from sites in the South and Midwest. The sites illustrate that for rural households, archaeologists...

  • There Is No Life Without Water: Irrigation in Utah's Uinta Basin (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie E. Lechert.

    This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the arid climate of Utah’s Uinta Basin, irrigation is the lifeblood of farming and ranching. Among the first tasks Euro-American settlers in Utah completed would be to secure water for their homestead by digging irrigation ditches. As settlers ventured further away from existing communities,...