The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States [Paperback]

Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1988, this collection uses the historical archaeology of the eastern United States to explore social life, religion, and ideology. A new prologue by Mark Leone defines the elements of culture and identifies those parts of the concept that are important to historical archaeologists. Leone considers public displays of heritage and the role of archaeology in their creation.This collection uses the historical archaeology of the eastern United States to explore social life, religion, and ideology. A new prologue by Mark Leone defines the elements of culture and identifies those parts of the concept that are important to historical archaeologists.Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition: Where Is Culture to be Found by Historical Archaeologists? Mark P. Leone Introduction: Issues in Historical Archaeology Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr. I. Sixteenth-Century Spanish Settlement in the SoutheastSanta Elena: Threshold of Conquest Stanley South Saints and Soldiers at Santa Catalina: Hispanic Designs for Colonial America David Hurst Thomas II. Native Americans and Europeans in Seventeenth-Century Southern New EnglandSociopolitical Implications of Mortuary Ritual Remains in Seventeenth-Century Native Southern New England Elise M. Brenner From Myth to History, or Why King Philip's Ghost Walks Abroad Constance A. Crosby III. The Archaeology of the Georgian Worldview and the Eighteenth-Century Beginnings of ModernityMaterial Culture and Worldview in Colonial Anglo-America James F. Deetz The Georgian Order as the Order of Merchant Capitalism in Annapolis, Maryland Mark P. Leone Craft and Culture Change in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Barbara J. Little Asymmetry and Recursive Meanings in the Eighteenth Century: The Morris Pound House Ann M. Palkovich IV. Nineteenth-Century Plantation Slavery and Its AftermathsToward a Theory of Power for Historical Archaeology: Plală