RELIGIOUS BELIEF & MATERIAL CULTURE
TOPIC ONE: AMERICANISTS ON MATERIAL CULTURE
Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison, "Shaping the Field: The Multidisciplinary Perspectives of
Material Culture," in Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison, eds., American Material Culture:
The Shape of the Field (Knoxville, 1997), 1-20.
Prown, Jules David, "Material/Culture: Can the Farmer and the Cowman Still be Friends?," in ibid, Art as
Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture (New Haven, 2002), 235-42.
Prown, Jules David, "Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method," in ibid, Art
as Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture (New Haven, 2002),69-95.
E. McClung Fleming, ed., "Artifact Study: A Proposed Model," in Thomas J. Schlereth, Material Culture
Studies in America (Nashville, 1982), 162-73.
Herman, Bernard, 1., "The Bricoleur Revisited," in Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison, eds.,
American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field (Knoxville, 1997), 37-63
Baumgarten, Linda R., "Leather Stockings and Hunting Shirts," in Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie
Garrison, eds., American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field (Knoxville, 1997), 251-76.
Deetz, J., "Small things remembered," in idem, In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early
American Life, 2nd edn (New York, 1995).
TOPIC TWO: MEDIEVALISTS ON MATERIAL CULTURE
Frans Verhaeghe, "Medieval and Later Social Networks: The Contribution of Archaeology," in Die
Vielfalter Der Dinge: Neue Wege zur Analyse Mittelalterlicher Sachkultur (Vienna, 1998), 263311.
Moreland, John, "Through the Looking Glass of Possibilities: Understanding the Middle Ages," in Die
Vielfalter Der Dinge: Neue Wege zur Analyse Mittelalterlicher Sachkultur (Vienna, 1998), 85111.
Austin, David, "Private and Public: An Archaeological Consideration of Things," in Die Vielfalter Der
Dinge: Neue Wege zur Analyse Mittelalterlicher Sachkultur (Vienna, 1998), 163-206.
TOPIC THREE: THE ADVENTUS
Sims-Williams, P., "The settlement of England in Bede and the Chronicle," Anglo-Saxon England, 12
(1983), 1-41. (download from WebCT)
Anthony, D. W., "Prehistoric migration as social process," in J. Chapman and H. Hamerow (eds.),
Migration and Invasion in Archaeological Migration, BAR, Int. Ser., 664 (1997), 21-32.
Fleming, Robin, Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain, chapters 1-2.
TOPIC FOUR: MAKING ETHNICITY
Jones, Sian, The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present (London, 1997)
Pohl, Walter, "Telling the difference: signs of ethnic identity,' in W. Pohl and H. Reimitz (eds.), Strategies
of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800 (Leiden, 1998), 17-69.
Fleming, Robin, Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain, chapter 3.
TOPIC FIVE: MAKING STATUS
Evers, S.J.T.M., "The construction of elite status in the extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar," in C.
Shore and S. Nugent (eds.), Elite Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives (London, 2002),158-72.
RELIGIOUS BELIEF & MATERIAL CULTURE
Harvey, P., "Elites on the margins: Mestizo traders in the southern Peruvian Andes," in C. Shore and S.
Nugent (eds.), Elite Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives (London, 2002), 74-90.
Dyer, Christopher, "Social Aspects of Late Medieval Material Culture," in Die Vielfalter Der Dinge: Neue
Wege zur Analyse Mittelalterlicher Sachkultur (Vienna, 1998),313-24.
Pitts, M. et aI, "An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at Stonehenge," Wiltshire Archaeological and
Natural History Magazine, 95 (2002), 131-46.
Shannon, Timothy, J., "Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the
Indian Fashion," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 53 (1996), 1342.
Fleming, Robin, Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain, chapter 4.
Fleming, Robin, "The new wealth, the new rich, and the new political style," ANS, 23 (2000),1-22.
Crawford, Sally, "Children, Grave Goods and Social Status in Early Anglo-Saxon England," in Children
and Material Culture, ed. Joanna Sofaer Derevenski (London, 2000),169-79
Appadurai, Arjun, "Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of Value," in A1jun Appadurai, ed., The
Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge, 1986), 3-63.
TOPIC SIX: SACRED LANDSCAPES/LANDSCAPES OF STATUS
Niblett, R., "Why Verulamium?," in M. Henig and P. Lindley (eds.), Alban, and St Albans: Roman and
Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology, British Archaeological Association Transactions, 24
(2001), 1-12.
Biddle, M. and B. Kjølby Biddle, "The origins of St Albans abbey: Romano-British cemetery and AngloSaxon monastery," in M. Henig and P. Lindley (eds.), Alban, and St Albans: Roman and
Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology, British Archaeological Association Transactions, 24
(2001), 45-77.
Blair, J., "Anglo-Saxon pagan shrines and their prototypes," Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and
History, 8 (1995), 1-28.
Bradley, R., "Time regained: the creation of continuity," Journal of the British Archaeological Association,
140 (1987), 1-17.
Williams, H., "Monuments and the past in early Anglo-Saxon England," World Archaeology, 30 (1998),
90-109.
TOPIC SEVEN: CHRISTIANIZATION
Samson, Ross, "The Church Lends a Hand," in Jane Downes and Tony Pollard, The Loved Body's
Corruption (Glasgow, 1999), 120-44.
Tarlow, Sarah, "The Dread of Something after Death: Violation and Desecration on the Isle of Man in the
Tenth Century," in Joh Carman, ed., Material Harm: Archaeological Studies of War and Violence
(Glasgow, 1997), 133-42.
Parker Pearson, Mike, "Fearing and Celebrating the Dead in Southern Madagascar," in Jane Downes and
Tony Pollard, The Loved Body's Corruption (Glasgow, 1999), 9-18.
Williams, Howard, "Death Warmed Up: The Agency of Bodies and Bones in Early AngloSaxon Cremation
Rites," Journal of Material Culture, 9 (2004), 263-91.
Meyer, Birgit, "Christian Mind and Worldly Matters: Religion and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Gold
Coast," Journal of Material Culture, ?? (1997), 311-337.
Fleming, Robin, Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain, chapter 5.
RELIGIOUS BELIEF & MATERIAL CULTURE
TOPIC EIGHT: RITUAL
Bourdillon, M.F.D. and Meyer Fortes, eds., Sacrifice (London, 1980)
Sue Anderson, Sue and Katherine Boyle, eds. Ritual treatment of human and animal remains: proceedings
of the first meeting of the Osteoarchaeological Research Group held in Cambridge on 8th October
1994 (Oxford, 1996)
Gheorghiu, Dragos, ed., Fire in archaeology: papers from a session held at the European Association of
Archaeologists sixth annual meeting in Lisbon 2000 (Oxford, 2002)
Price, Neil S., ed., The archaeology of shamanism (London, 2001)
TOPIC NINE: DISPOSING OF THE DEAD
Lucy, S., The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2000).
Lucy, S. and A. Reynolds (eds.), Burial in Early Medieval England and Wales, Society for Medieval
Archaeology, 17 (London, 2002)
Parker Pearson, Mike, The Archaeology of Death and Burial (College Station, Tx, 2000)
Boddington, A., Raunds Furnells: The Anglo-Saxon Church and Churchyard, English Heritage
Archaeological Report, 7 (London, 1996).
Owen, O. and M. Dalland, Scar: A Viking Boat Burial on Sanday, Orkney, Historic Scotland (East Lothian,
Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1999).
GENERAL. RECENT TREATMENTS OF THE PERIOD
Charles-Edwards, T. (ed.),After Rome, Short Oxford History ofthe British Isles (Oxford, 2003).
Davies, W. (ed.), From the Vikings to the Normans, Short Oxford History of the British Isles (Oxford,
2003).