How can we use the past to make sense of the issues and problems that concern us in the present? Mark Leone, the leading critical theorist in historical archaeology, urges archaeologists to view their discipline as an activist pursuit. This volume is partly his autobiographical reflection on a thirty five year career, part a collection of Leone’s classic writings on Annapolis, Williamsburg, Shakertown, St. Mary’s, and other key sites, and part a synthesis of his current thinking on how historical archaeology can engage the cultural and political issues of our time. Critical Historical Archaeology is an important summary of the work and thinking of one of our most thoughtful, influential archaeologists.
Critical Historical Archaeology is an important summary of the work and thinking of one of our most thoughtful, influential archaeologists.
Dr. Leone is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is interested in critical theory, as it applies to archaeology, and particularly, to historical archaeology. He has directed Archaeology in Annapolis since 1981. Leone is committed to public interpretation of archaeology and is interested in exploring the relationship between public interpretation and the politics of Archaeology.
Introduction: How to Excavate
SECTION 1: The Ethnography of Practice
Chapter 1: Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. “The Relationship between Artifacts and the Public in Outdoor History Museums.”
Chapter 2: Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. “Archaeology's Relationship to the Present and the Past.”
Chapter 3: Catholic and Protestant Relations in Maryland. “Critical Perspectives on Work Concerning Charles Carroll of Carrollton.”
Chapter 4: Establishing Site Significance. “Legitimation and the Classification of Archaeological Sites.”
Chapter 5: The Virtues of Various Archaeological Theorl'
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