Every student will present one reading to the class. Presenters should summarize the reading's main points, assess its strengths and weaknesses, and provide some initial ideas to guide the discussion. All students will be prepared to participate in class discussions of the readings, so the presenter's duty is to begin that discussion. Every presenter must provide me a thorough outline of their presentation on the day of the presentation or lose half of their reading presentation credit.

Readings are assigned on a voluntary basis: if you do not volunteer to present one of the readings by AUGUST 30, I will assign you to one at random. The line ABOVE the reading indicates the person who is presenting that reading: please do not get confused and prepare the wrong reading for class.

All class readings are in the course's three textbooks; please do not confuse these course readings with the readings for the Journal Review Essay assignment.  Readings in Images of the Recent Past are indicated by IRP and the chapter author (e.g., Leone, IRP) and readings in In Small Things Forgotten are indicated by chapter number.

Email me if you have any questions.

Orser, Charles E. (editor)
1996 Images of the Recent Past: Readings in Historical Archaeology. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California. 

Deetz, James 
1996 In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early American Life. 2nd edition. Anchor Press, New York.  The earlier edition is not significantly different from the 1996 revision.

August 30

    Jill Thomas                                                                     

• Towards a Critical Archaeology (Leone, Mark P., Parker B. Potter, Jr., and Paul A. Shackel Current Anthropology 28(3):283-302 [1987]).

      Dax A. Cabell                                                   

• Silberman, IRP

September 6

• Towards a Black Feminist-inspired Archaeology?  (Franklin, Maria, Journal of Social Archaeology 1(1):108-125 [2001])

     Monica Rios                                                            

• Moving Towards Transformative Democratic Action through Archaeology (Woods, Margaret C. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 6(3):187-198 [2002]).

    Ryan Gallagher                                                                 

• Theory: An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research (Blakey, Michael L. In The New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Vol. 1, edited by Michael L. Blakey and Lesley M. Rankin-Hill, pp.98-115 [2004].  Howard University, Washington, DC).

September 13

     Gina Romano                                                                 

• The Political Economy of Archaeological Cultures: Marxism and American Historical Archaeology (Matthews, Christopher N., Mark P. Leone, and Kurt A. Jordan.  Journal of Social Archaeology 2(1):109-134 [2002]).

     Austin Stanforth                                                    

• Consulting Stakeholders. (Zimmerman, Larry J. In Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analysis, edited by Jane Balme and Alistair Paterson, pp.39-58.  Blackwell, New York [2006]).  Available on Oncourse

     Anneli Cochrane                                                           

• Leone, IRP

September 20

     Holly Jordan                                                              

• In Small Things Forgotten, Chapters 1-2

• Emulation and Empowerment: Material, Social, and Economic Dynamics in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Virginia (Bell, Alison International Journal of Historical Archaeology 6(4):253-298 [2002]).

September 27

    Patrick Lipps                                                                        

• Hidden in View: African Spiritual Spaces in North American Landscapes (Ruppel, Timothy, Jessica Neuwirth, Mark P. Leone and Gladys-Marie Fry Antiquity, 77(296):321-335 [2003]).  Available on Oncourse

    Alex Rodenbeck                                                             

• In Small Things Forgotten, Chapters 7-8

October 4

     Earlene Morgan                                                                     

• Struggling with the Past: Some Views of African-American Identity (Thomas, Brian W. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 6(2):143-151 [2002]).

     Lindsay Fernung                                        

• The Archaeology of Overseas Chinese Communities (Voss, Barbara L. World Archaeology 37(3):424-439 [2005]).  Available on Oncourse

October 11

   Erin Avey                                                                                         

• Hummel Figurines: Molding a Collectible Germany (Chaimov, John Journal of Material Culture 6(1):49-66 [2001]).

   Michael Sweany                                                           

• Seifert, IRP

October 18

     Heather Filson                                             

• In Small Things Forgotten, Chapters 3-4

      Krystle Buschner                                          

• "A Set of Very Fair Cups and Saucers":  Stamped Ceramics as an Example of Inuit Incorporation (Cabak, Melanie and Stephen Loring.  International Journal of Historical Archaeology 4(1):1-34 [2000]).

October 25

   Mandy Schmalz                                                         

• Ferguson, IRP

  Erin Lung                                                                

• Henry, IRP

November 1

      Yvelina Ivanova                                                                

• Las Vegas in Africa (Hall, Martin and Pia Bombardella.  Journal of Social Archaeology 5(1):1-24 [2005]).

      Austin Sadtler                                              

• Historical Archaeology and the Recent Urban Past (Symonds, James.  International Journal of Heritage Studies 10(1):31-48 [2004].  Available on Oncourse.

November 8

  April DeGeeter                                                                                       

• Overview of Mortuary Population, Burial Practices, and Spatial Redistribution (Perry, Warren R., and Jean Howson.  In New York African Burial Ground Archaeology Final Report, edited by Warren R. Perry, Jean Howson, and Barbara Bianco, pp. 130-155 [2006]). 
• Summary and Conclusions (Perry, Warren R., Jean Howson, and Barbara A. Bianco.  In New York African Burial Ground Archaeology Final Report, edited by Warren R. Perry, Jean Howson, and Barbara Bianco, pp, 444-457 [2006]). 

November 15

    Shannon Dangler                                                                         

• Immaculate Consumption: A Critique of the "Shop till you Drop" School of Human Behavior (Wurst, LouAnn and Randall H. McGuire International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(3):191-199 [1999]).

    Paul Hancock                                                                                        

• To Watch or Restrain: Female Convict Prisons in 19th-Century Tasmania (Casella, Eleanor Conlin, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 5(1):45-72 [2001]).

November 29

     Josie Hovious                                                                          

• `It's Not Forever': The Material Culture of Hope (Fiona R. Parrott, Journal of Material Culture 10(3):245-262 [2005])

    Ben Stout                                                                                        

• The Cultural Landscape of Interplanetary Space (Alice Gorman, Journal of Social Archaeology 5:85-107 [2005]).

Last updated August 31, 2006