SS5502 Industrial Archaeology Proseminar: Historical Archaeology
Spring 2013
Friday 9 - 12
AOB Annex Seminar Room 106
Professor: Sam Sweitz
Course Content
This seminar is designed to encourage students to think about how they approach the
archaeological record. We all bring particular theoretical perspectives to our work as
archaeologists, perspectives informed by both individual experience and the social context(s) in
which we work. Weekly readings organized around themes in Historical Archaeology will
encourage students to consider the varied theoretical perspectives and approaches archaeologists
use in interpreting the archaeological record and how those perspectives and approaches effect
the questions, interpretations, and understanding we bring to the past.
Weekly Seminar Themes
Weeks 1 & 2: Theory and Archaeology
Week 3: The Global Dimension of Historical Archaeology: The World-System & Scale
Week 4 & 5: The Global Dimension of Historical Archaeology: Colonialism
Weeks 6 & 7: Agency, Structure, and Negotiation
Weeks 8 & 9: Individuals in the Archaeological Record: Gender, Ethnicity and Race
Weeks 10 & 11: Mass Consumption and the Archaeological Record
Weeks 12 & 13: Space and Landscape in Historical Archaeology
Week 14: Contemporary Archaeology & Critical Archaeology
Course Requirements
The requirements for this course include a series of weekly assignments focused on the written
analysis and presentation of the themed readings. For each reading students will complete an
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annotated bibliographic entry and three reading questions/comments (please see handouts on the
Critical Analysis of Resources and Annotated Bibliographies). Each of the weekly readings will
be assigned to individual students who will serve as the class discussion leader for those
particular pieces (please see the handout on Student Led Discussions). In addition, each student
will be asked to find and present an article related to each of the eight course themes in the final
seminar period dedicated to that particular theme.
At the end of each seminar students will be given a quote and asked to write a reaction paper that
relates the quote to the in-class discussion and readings for the week. Finally, students will also
be evaluated on their overall participation in seminar discussion.
The final two course requirements represent the writing of a term paper on a theoretical
movement within archaeology. Students will be asked to submit an abstract, with references,
detailing their paper topic in-class on Friday March 8th. The final 15 page paper, not including
references, will be due on the final day of class Friday April 26th. The Final Exam will be a take
home assignment. The Exam will be handed-out in class on Friday April 26th and will be due the
following Friday May 3rd by 12 pm.
Grading
Seminar grades will be based on the sum total of points earned for the following components:
Weekly Reaction Papers
14 @ 5 points
70 total points
Weekly Annotated Bibliographies
13 @ 5 points
65 total points
Class Participation
14 @ 5 points
70 total points
Reading Questions/Comments
13 @ 5 points
65 total points
Class Discussion Leader
13 @ 5 points
65 total points
Term Paper
1 @ 100 points
100 total points
Final Exam
1 @ 100 points
100 total points
535 total points
The following scale will be used in assigning final grades:
A = 100 – 90%, AB = 89.9 – 88, B = 87.9 – 80%, BC = 79.9 – 78, C = 77.9 – 70%,
CD = 69.9 – 68, D = 67.9 – 60%, F = 59.9 – 0%
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Your weekly annotated bibliographies, reading questions/comments, weekly reaction papers,
class participation, and performance as class discussion leader will be graded on a check plus,
check, check minus system, with point values of 5, 4.25, and 3.75 respectively.
Readings
Students will read Trigger’s A History of Archaeological Thought at the beginning of the course,
as well as chapters from Hodder and Hutson’s Reading the Past as thematic companion pieces
for each seminar theme. The majority of readings for the course are selected articles and book
chapters related to the theme under examination that week, which I will place on the course
Canvas page. The readings for each week have been chosen for their contributions to the overall
weekly theme, with individual articles contributing to the building of theoretical perspectives
and/or serving as specific case studies. A handful of the weekly readings are meant as
background information to help students create the framework on which other readings and class
discussion will be built.
Weekly Reading Assignments (Subject to change and addition):
Weeks 1 & 2
Trigger, Bruce 2006. A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Preface to the first edition. In Reading the Past: Current
Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. xi-xiv. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Preface to the second edition. In Reading the Past: Current
Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. xv-xvi. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Preface to the third edition. In Reading the Past: Current
Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. xvii-xviii. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Chapter 1: The Problem. In Reading the Past: Current Approaches
to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 1-19. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Leone, Mark 1999. Setting Some Terms for Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism. In Historical
Archaeologies of Capitalism, M. Leone and P. Potter, Jr. (eds.), pp. 3-20. Kluwer Adcademic / Plenum
Publishers, New York.
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Wylie, Alison 1999. Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism? The Logic of Question
and Answer and the Challenge of Systemic Analysis. In Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, M.
Leone and P. Potter, Jr. (eds.), pp. 23-50. Kluwer Adcademic / Plenum Publishers, New York.
Week 3
Bintliff, John 1991. The Contribution of an Annaliste/Structural History Approach to Archaeology. In
The Annales School and Archaeology, J. Bintliff, (ed.), pp. 1-33. New York University Press, New York.
Braudel, Fernand 1999. Chapter 1: Divisions of Space and Time in Europe. In The Perspective of the
World: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, volume III, pp. 21-88. Harper & Row, New York.
Hardesty, Donald 1999. Archaeological Models of the Modern World in the Great Basin: World
Systems and Beyond. In Models for the Millennium: Great Basin Anthropology Today, C. Beck
(ed.), pp. 213-219. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Chapter 8: Archaeology and History. In Reading the Past: Current
Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 125-155. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Shannon, Thomas. 1996. Chapter 1: The Origins of World-System Theory. In An Introduction to the
World-System Perspective, 2nd edition, pp. 1 22. Westview Press, Boulder.
Shannon, Thomas. 1996. Chapter 2: World-System Structure. In An Introduction to the World-System
Perspective, 2nd edition, pp. 23-44. Westview Press, Boulder.
Wallerstein, Immanuel 2004. Chapter 2: The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy. In
World-Systems Analysis an Introduction, pp. 23-41. Duke University Press, Durham.
Williams, Jack 1993. The Archaeology of Underdevelopment and the Military Frontier of Northern New
Spain. Historical Archaeology 26:7-21.
Weeks 4 & 5
Gosden, Chris 2003. Introduction. In Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5,000 BC to
the Present, pp. 1-6. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Gosden, Chris 2003. Chapter 2: Earlier Approaches to Colonialism. In Archaeology and Colonialism:
Cultural Contact from 5,000 BC to the Present, pp. 7-23. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Gosden, Chris 2003. Chapter 3: A Model of Colonialism. In Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural
Contact from 5,000 BC to the Present, pp. 24-40. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Chapter 1: The Problem. In Reading the Past: Current Approaches
to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 1-19. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Chapter 2: Processual and Systems Approaches. In Reading the
Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 20-44. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge.
Jordan, Stacey and Schrire, Carmel 2002. Material Culture and the Roots of Colonial Society at the
South African Cape of Good Hope. In The Archaeology of Colonialism, C. Lyons and J. Papadopoulos
(eds.), pp. 241-272. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Loomba, Ania 1998. Chapter 2: Colonial and Postcolonial Identities. In Colonialism / Postcolonialsim,
pp. 104-183. Routledge, New York.
Orser, Charles, Jr. 1996. Chapter 1: A Crisis in Historical Archaeology. In A Historical Archaeology of
the Modern World, pp. 1-28. Plenum Press, New York.
Orser, Charles, Jr. 1996. Chapter 2: Men, Women, Nets, and Archaeologists. In A Historical
Archaeology of the Modern World, pp. 29-55. Plenum Press, New York.
Orser, Charles, Jr. 1996. Chapter 3: The Haunts of Historical Archaeology. In A Historical Archaeology
of the Modern World, pp. 57-88. Plenum Press, New York.
Silliman, Stephen 2004. Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of
Rancho Petaluma. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Weeks 6 & 7
Bourdieu, Pierre 1993. Chapter 1: The Objective Limits of Objectivism. In Outline of a Theory of
Practice, pp. 1-71. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Bourdieu, Pierre 1993. Chapter 2: Structures and the Habitus. In Outline of a Theory of Practice, pp.
72-95. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Dobres, Marcia-Anne and Robb, John 2000. Agency in Archaeology: Paradigm or Platitude? In Agency
in Archaeology, M. Dobres and J. Robb (eds.), pp. 3-18. Routledge, New York.
Giddens, Anthony 1984. Introduction. In The Constitution of Society: Outline of a Theory of
Structuration, pp. xiii-xxxvii. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Giddens, Anthony 1984. Chapter 1: Elements of the Theory of Structuration. In The Constitution of
Society: Outline of a Theory of Structuration, pp. 1-40. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Giddens, Anthony 1984. Chapter 6: Change, Evolution and Power. In The Constitution of Society:
Outline of a Theory of Structuration, pp. 227-280. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Given, Michael 2004. Chapter 2: Resistance – Agency – Landscape – Narrative. In The Archaeology of
the Colonized, pp. 8-25. Routledge, New York.
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Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Chapter 5: Agency and Practice. In Reading the Past: Current
Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 90-105. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Chapter 6: Embodied Archaeology. In Reading the Past: Current
Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 106-124. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Rubertone, Patricia 1994. Archaeology, Colonialism and 17th-century Native America: Towards an
Alternative Interpretation. In Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions, R. Layton (ed.), pp. 3245. Routledge, New York.
Scott, James 1990. Chapter 2: Domination, Acting, and Fantasy. In Domination and the Arts of
Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, pp. 17-44. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Scott, James 1990. Chapter 3: The Public Transcript as a Respectable Performance. In Domination and
the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, pp. 45-69. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Scott, James 1985. Chapter 2: Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance. In Weapons of the Weak:
Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, pp. 28-47. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Weeks 8 & 9
Baxter, Jane 2005. Chapter 1: The Archaeology of Childhood in Context. In The Archaeology of
Childhood: Children, Gender, and Material Culture, pp. 1-13. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
Baxter, Jane 2005. Chapter 2: Theorizing Childhood in Archaeology. In The Archaeology of Childhood:
Children, Gender, and Material Culture, pp. 15-25. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
Baxter, Jane 2005. Chapter 5: Socialization, Behavior, and the Spaces and Places of Childhood. In The
Archaeology of Childhood: Children, Gender, and Material Culture, pp. 55-80. AltaMira Press, Walnut
Creek, CA.
Dunaway, Wilma 2001. The Double Register of History: Situating the Forgotten Woman and Her
Household in Capitalist Commodity Chains. Journal of World-Systems Research 7:2-29.
Groover, Mark 2000. Creolization and the Archaeology of Multiethnic Households in the American
South. Historical Archaeology 34:99-106.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Chapter 9: Post-processual Archaeology. In Reading the Past:
Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 206-235. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge.
Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth 1994. “With Manly Courage”: Reading the Construction of Gender in a
Nineteenth-Century Religious Community. In Those of Little Note: Gender, Race, and Class in
Historical Archaeology, E. Scott (ed.), pp. 97-114. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
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Lampard, Susan 2009. The Ideology of Domesticity and the Working-Class Women and Children of
Port Adelaide, 1840-1890. Historical Archaeology 43:50-64.
Orser, Charles, Jr. 2004. Chapter 1: Problematizing Race in Archaeology. In Race and Practice in
Archaeological Interpretation, pp. 1-38. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
Van Buren, Thad and Wooten, Kimberly 2009. Making the Most of Uncertainties at the Sanderson
Farm. Historical Archaeology 43:108-134.
Wilkie, Laurie 2001. Race, Identity, and Habermas’s Lifeworld. In Race and the Archaeology of
Identity, C. Orser, Jr. (ed.), pp. 108-124. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Wurst, Louann 1999. Internalizing Class in Historical Archaeology. Historical Archaeology 33:7-21.
Weeks 10 & 11
Cook, Lauren, Yamin, Rebecca, and John McCarthy 1996. Shopping as Meaningful Action: Toward a
Redefinition of Consumption in Historical Archaeology. Historical Archaeology 30:50-65.
Henry, Susan 1991. Consumers, Commodities, and Choices: A General Model of Consumer Behavior.
Historical Archaeology 25:3-14.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Chapter 8: Contextual Archaeology. In Reading the Past: Current
Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 156-205. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Miller, Daniel 1987. Chapter 8: The Study of Consumption. In Material Culture and Mass
Consumption, pp. 133-157. Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA.
Miller, Daniel 1987. Chapter 9: Object Domains, Ideology and Interests. In Material Culture and Mass
Consumption, pp. 158-177. Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA.
Miller, Daniel 1987. Chapter 10: Towards a Theory of Consumption. In Material Culture and Mass
Consumption, pp. 178-218. Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA.
Miller, George 1980. Classification and Economic Scaling of 19th Century Ceramics. Historical
Archaeology 14:1-40.
Miller, George 1991. A Revised Set of CC Index Values for Classification and Economic Scaling of
English Ceramics from 1787 to 1880. Historical Archaeology 25:1-25.
Mullins, Paul 1999. “A Bold and Gorgeous Front”: The Contradictions of African America and
Consumer Culture. In Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, M. Leone and P. Potter, Jr. (eds.), pp. 169193.
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Spencer-Wood, Suzanne 1987. Miller’s Indices and Consumer-Choice Profiles: Status-Related
Behaviors and White Ceramics. In Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology, S. Spencer-Wood (ed.),
pp. 321-358. Plenum Press, New York.
Yentsch, Anne 1991. The Symbolic Divisions of Pottery: Sex-Related Attributes of English and AngloAmerican Household Pots. In The Archaeology of Inequality, R. McGuire and R. Paynter (eds.), pp. 192230. Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA.
Weeks 12 & 13
Anschuetz, Kurt, Wilshusen, Richard, and Cherie Scheick 2001. An Archaeology of Landscapes:
Perspectives and Directions. Journal of Archaeological Research 9:157-211.
Behrens, Joanna 2005. The Dynamite Factory: An Industrial Landscape in Late-Nineteenth-Century
South Africa. Historical Archaeology 39:61-74.
Glover, Susan 2009. Propaganda, Public Information, and Prospecting: Explaining the Irrational
Exuberance of Central Place Foragers During a Late Nineteenth Century Colorado Silver Rush. Human
Ecology 37:519-531.
Hodder, Ian and Hutson, Scott 2003. Chapter 10: Conclusion: Archaeology as Archaeology. In Reading
the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 236-247. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge.
McGlade, James 1999. Archaeology and the Evolution of Cultural Landscapes: Towards an
Interdisciplinary Research Agenda. In The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping Your
Landscape, P. Ucko and R. Layton (eds.), pp. 458-481. Routledge, New York.
Metheny, Karen Bescherer 2007. From the Miners’ Doublehouse: Archaeology and Landscape in a
Pennsylvania Coal Company Town. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Savlus, Ellen-Rose 2003. Zion’s Zeal: Negotiating Identity in Shaker Communities. In Shared Spaces
and Divided Places: Material Dimensions of Gender Relations and the American Historical Landscape,
D. Rotman and E-R. Savulis (eds.), pp. 160-189. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Tilley, Christopher 1994. Chapter 1: Space, Place, Landscape and Perception: Phenomenological
Perspectives. In A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments, pp. 7-34. Berg,
Providence, RI.
Zarankin, Andres 2005. Walls of Domestication – Archaeology of the Architecture of Capitalist
Elementary Public Schools: The Case of Buenos Aires. In Global Archaeological Theory: Contextual
Voices and Contemporary Thoughts, P. Funari and A. Zarankin (eds.), pp. 237-264. Kluwer Academic /
Plenum Publishers, New York.
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Taska, Lucy 2005. The Material Culture of an Industrial Artifact: Interpreting Control, Defiance, and
Everyday Resistance at the New South Wales Eveleigh Railway Workshops. Historical Archaeology
39:8-27.
Tilley, Christopher 1994. Chapter 6: Conclusions: Ideology and Place: Restructuring the Connections.
In A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments, pp. 202-218. Berg, Providence, RI.
Week 14
Readings TBA
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