Might I recommend:
Dew, Charles B.
1995 Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge. W. W. Norton, New York.
Good historical study of the community, though, as I remember, little about archaeology.
D. Babson
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Subject: book suggestions
This fall I'll be teaching a course called "The Anthropology of American
History," and I'm looking for suggestions to complete my reading list.
The course is designed to show students how it is possible - through
archaeology, architectural history, the study of documents and other means -
to address issues about historic communities that ethnographers often
investigate among living groups, including cultural values, social structures,
and gender roles.
I'd like to use reader-friendly, humanistically oriented studies focusing on a
range of peoples, places and times. I'd especially appreciate recommendations
for studies of nineteenth-century communities, of non-European people in the
U.S., and of places other than the east coast (missions? mining towns?).
Thus far I'm considering:
James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz, The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love,
and Death in Plymouth Colony (2000 W.H. Freeman).
Leland Ferguson, Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America,
1650-1800 (1992 Smithsonian Institution Press).
Darrett Rutman and Anita Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia
1650-1750 (1984 W.W. Norton).
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on
her Diary,1785-1812 (1990 Vintage Books).
John Michael Vlach, Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation
Slavery (1993 University of North Carolina Press).
Thanks for any other ideas -
Alison Bell
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