Dr. Schuyler,
As Suzanne said, you may be thinking of work that I did in the early 1990s.
References below.
I've gotten side tracked from that work for two reasons.
1) I'm doing community based work, and sadly, the community I work within is
just not interested in it.
2) I've been busy building constituencies and raising funds to save the
site of Old Cahawba as an archaeological park (about 1000 acres of 1/2 acre
lots, all with clouded titles) , so I had to forsake my research interests
for topics that are more relevant to Cahawba's publics.
As I am know glimpsing retirement out there on the horizon, I hope I can get
back to this research, if only as a treat to myself! <smile> OR,.......
better yet, perhaps I can find a University based archaeologist looking for
a primo site with great contextual information like Cahawba that would like
to base their field research at Cahawba in order to follow up on the
archaeological correlates of kinship in the old cotton belt. (HINT, HINT)
Unfortunately, there are not any archaeologists in Alabama that are
interested in this type of research - or probably even aware of it. They
have "other fish to fry." But Cahawba is the ultimate site for anyone
interested in dissecting the inner workings of the antebellum Southern
society and cotton culture.
FYI: My 1991 Chacmool article was panned by a reviewer because I didn't
write about the "Plain Folk" of the South. This has irritated me for years,
so let me take this opportunity to point out that although the county
surrounding Selma Alabama, Dallas County, is currently hovering at the
poverty level, just prior to the Civil War, it has the 4th highest per
capita wealth in the whole U.S. (not Alabama, but the WHOLE U.S.!), and
Cahawba was the county seat, social and commercial center for the wealthiest
half of that county. These people were certainly NOT the plain folk, they
were wealthiest of the wealthy and their enslaved laborers. Even Cahawba's
slave quarters were pretty impressive, and the one remaining on site (now a
ghost town) is often today mistaken for a "mansion."
With that said, here's two references to the work. Hope it addresses your
question.
1992 "Fathers and Daughters: Land Ownership, Kinship Structure,
and Social Space in Old Cahawba." In The Art and Mystery of Historical
Archaeology, Essays in Honor of James Deetz, edited by Yentsch & Beaudry,
London, CRC Press.
1991 "Daughters and Sons-In-Law of King Cotton: Asymmetry in the
Structure and Material Culture of Cahawba, an Antebellum Alabama Town." In
The Archaeology of Gender, edited by Dale Walde and Noreen D. Willows.
Calgary, Canada, Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary.
Despite my malingering ache over the initial review, please don't hesitate
to send me comments and critiques. I really would appreciate any and all
input.
Linda Derry
Site Director
Old Cahawba
719 Tremont St.
Selma, AL 36701
ph. 334/875-2529
fax. 334/877-4253
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Subject: Re: Help With A Source
I think that is the article. I will check it out. thanks, Bob
At 08:48 PM 11/9/2011, you wrote:
>Hi Bob, you would be interested in Linda Derry's chapter about the
>influence of women's kinship relationships on the location of the houses
>and stores owned by their husbands. I think it is in the Deetz feshrift.
>regards,
>suzanne
>
>On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Robert L. Schuyler
><[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> > Can anyone help me relocate a source? It is an article in an edited
> > compendium on historical archaeology and the author is a woman. It is an
> > impressive archival analysis of kinship. The author was looking at
feuding
> > - I think in the US Southeast - in which people were fighting or killing
> > each other and their acts did not make sense until she shifted the
analysis
> > from the family names (male) to the the maiden names of the women
involved.
> > Suddenly all sorts of relationships became visible.
> >
> > What is this source?
> >
> > Has this author published other items on this "hidden" pattern?
> >
> > Are their similar articles by historical archaeologists or historians
> > which dig deeper into kinship relationships/
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Bob Schuyler
> >
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