Excavating Emotion on a Maryland Plantation
Author(s): Megan M. Bailey
Year: 2016
Summary
Due to their ephemeral, intangible nature, affect and emotion are difficult to capture and interpret from the archaeological record. However, to be human, feel emotion, and interact with one’s environment is a common experience that connects people across space and time; therefore, presenting affect and emotion is a powerful means of connecting people to the past. This paper uses a 18th-19th c. plantation context to explore the importance of sense perception, materiality, and the landscape to archaeological interpretations, and considers archaeology’s potential for dealing with the human sensory experience in order to grasp a richer understanding of the past.
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Excavating Emotion on a Maryland Plantation. Megan M. Bailey. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434742)
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Keywords
General
Affect
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Cultural Landscapes
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Plantation
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Historical (18th-19th c)
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 560