Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

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  • Archaeologies of Value in the Modern World (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Penny Crook.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I will review a sample of theoretical approaches to the concept of value derived from the social sciences through the lens of modern world archaeology. This is an era for which the relative abundance of goods tends to prejudice our conception of the complex nature of value construction. I argue that the...

  • "This, of course, would be desirable": Nostalgia and Dispossession at the United States Bicentennial (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Chandler E. Fitzsimons. Margaret A. Perry.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The United States’ bicentennial celebrations from 1976-1981 prompted a nationwide attempt to reconstruct and commemorate Revolutionary-era landscapes with unprecedented vigor. These efforts were particularly widespread in Tidewater Virginia. At Yorktown, the site of the final surrender of the War of Independence, the...

  • Vanishing Chinese Historical Sites (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dudley Gardner.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological excavations in Wyoming have helped to illuminate where Chinese people lived and what their lives looked like in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but physical remains of historic Chinese sites dating between 1867 and 1949 are rare. Understanding why historic structures and cemeteries in...