Ethnohistory and Archaeology
ANT 380K / Spg 2001 / S. Wilson
Anthropology, Univ. of Texas

Schedule [NB: this is a provisional schedule -- it will change]

Date Topic Reading Activity
19 Jan Introduction
26 Jan 20th C. American Anthropology and its relationship to history Roseberry, W. 1996 "The Unbearable Lightness of Anthropology" Radical History Review 65:5-25.
Stocking, G. 1995 "Delimiting Anthropology: historical reflections on the boundaries of a boundless discipline." Social Research 62(4):933-67.
Sahlins, M. 1985 "Other times, other customs: The anthropology of history" American Anthropologist 85(3):512-544.
Borofsky, R. 1994 "Introduction" to Assessing Cultural Anthropology . New York,: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
 Class starts at 10:15
2 Feb Archaeology, History, and Cultural Anthropology Kellogg, Susan (1991) Histories for Anthropology: Ten years of historical research and writing by Anthropologists, 1980-1990. Social Science History 15(4): 417-455.
Sahlins, M. "Introduction: History and Structural Theory" from Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities (1981) Michigan Pr.
9 Feb Social History and the Annales School Kepecs, Susan, 1997 "Introduction to New Approaches to Combining the Archaeological and Historical Records" Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 4, Nos. 3/4, 193-8.
Braudel, Fernand (1980) "The Longue Durée" in On History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Sarah Matthews, Transl.
A. Bernard Knapp, Archaeology and Annales: time, space, and change." In Knapp, B. (ed.) Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory, 1992, p. 1-22.
16 Feb

Social History

What is "Ethnohistory?"
Indigenous texts.

 Smith, Daniel Scott (1992) "Context, Time, History" in P. Karsten and J. Modell (eds.) Theory, Method, and Practice in Social and Cultural History. New York: NYU Press, 13-32.
Marcus, Joyce, and Kent V. Flannery (1994) Ancient Zapotec ritual and religion: an application of the direct historical approach. In Colin Renfrew and Ezra B. W. Zubrow (eds.) The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Cambridge U. Press.

23 Feb

 Recent histories of Archaeology: the critique of positivism and the post-processual response Shanks, Michael, and Ian Hodder. Processual, Postprocessual, and Interpretive Archaeologies. In Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past, edited by I. Hodder, M. Shanks, A. Alexandri, V. Bucheli, J. Carman, J. Last and G. Lucas, pp. 3-28. London: Routledge.
Trigger "Archaeology and its social context" in History of Archaeological Thought

Presentations:

Sanders, Maroney, Brunach, Brandon

2 Mar Colonialism and the anthropological project.
Methodologies for combining history, ethnography, and Archaeology		 Said, E. 1989. Representing the Colonized: Anthropology«s Interlocutors. Critical Inquiry, no. 15, pps. 205-225.
Dirks, Nicholas (1994) "Is Vice Versa? Historical Anthropologies and Anthropological Histories." in Assessing Cultural Anthropology . New York,: McGraw-Hill, Inc
. Sahlins, M. (1994). Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the context of modern world history. In R. Borofsky (Ed.), Assessing Cultural Anthropology . New York,: McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Presentations:

Petrovich, Davidson, Brockett, Hill, Peterson
9 Mar no class

 
16 Mar Spring Break
23 Mar --Archaeology and Ethnography -- reading ethnographies
-- Case Studies: The "Contact Period" issues of culture change		 Feinman, Gary 1997 Thoughts on New Approaches to Combining the Archaeological and Historical Records." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 4, Nos. 3/4, 367-377.
Excerpt from Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, "Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629" translated by J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig
30 Mar Case Studies: "hunter-gatherers" Pulsipher & Goodwin, "Here Where the Old Time People Be: Reconstructing the Landscapes of the Slavery and Post-Slavery Era in Monserrat, West Indies".
Kelly, K. 1997. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. "Using Historically Informed Archaeology: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hueda/European Interaction on the Coast of Benin".
6 Apr Case Studies: complex societies and colonial conquest Adams, William Hampton, and Steven D. Smith. "Historical Perspectives on Black Tenant Farmer Material Culture: The Henry C. Long General Store Ledger at Waverly Plantation, Mississippi," in The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life, edited by Theresa A. Singleton. 1985
Griggs, Heather. "GO gCUIRE DIA RATH AGUS BLATH ORT (God Grant That You Prosper and Flourish): Social and Economic Mobility Among the Irish in Nineteenth-Century New York City. Historical Archaeology 1999, 33(1):87-101.
13 Apr no class
20 Apr Case Studies: the ethnohistory of oppression

"The Challenge of 'Technological Choices' for materials science approaches in archaeology." B. Sillar and M. S. Tite. Archaeometry 42(1)2-20. 2000.
Epperson, Terrence W. 1999 The Contested Commons: Archaeologies of Race, Repression and Resistance in New York City. In Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, M. Leone and P. Potter (eds.). New York: Plenum Pr., pp. 81-110.

Presentations
Paula, James,

27 Apr Integrative research strategies in anthropological archaeology Kus, Susan (1997) "Archaeologist as Anthropologist: Much ado about something after all?" Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 4, Nos. 3/4, 199-213.
Robert Drews, excerpt from The End of the Bronze Age. Princeton. 1993.
 Presentations
David, Sean, Jamie
4 May final topics

George Sabo III, "The Structure of Caddo Leadership in the Colonial Era." In Native History of the Caddo, editedby Tim Perttula and James Bruseth. TARL Studies in Archaeology no. 30, Austin 1998.
Stocking, George (1992) "Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology" in The Ethnographer's Magic. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 342-361.

Peggy, Sophia, Anne, Leighton
       

 

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