Diana:
        I detect steam coming from the direction of Quebec, not to
mention Brazil, Mexico and many parts of Europe. The British Empire(s)
was big but not that big. "Parochial" ???????? Perhaps people could
suggest non-English publications if they included a very brief
precis or translation of the title into the language currently
spoken by God - American "English."

                                                RL Schuyler





At 03:36 PM 2/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Fellow Histarchers:
>
>I would like to follow up on the recent discussion on the insularlity shown
>by historical archaeologists in their approach to the field and give
>histarchers a chance to put references to their favorite studies where their
>mouths are.
>
>Beginning September 2002, Nan Rothschild and I are team teaching at Columbia
>University and the CUNY Graduate Center a graduate course which we have
>(perhaps over-ambitiously) entitled "Historical Archaeology: A Global
>Perspective."  It has occurred to us that it might be helpful for us all to
>put out a request on Histarch to subscribers from around the world for
>references for the studies that you look on as among the best or most
>interesting in our field.  Please post the references on Histarch, or if you
>prefer, send them to me off list.
>
>Please include along with the reference a few words about the study - why
>it's interesting, etc.  And limit the studies for the most part to published
>articles and book for reasons of accessibiltiy - please do not include the
>grey literature except in  extraordinary instances.
>
>After we've received the  submissions, we will organize the references and
>post them on the list for anyone who wants to down load them (much as
>Silliman handled the list of  movies and novels dealing with colonialism a
>few months ago).
>
>Unfortunately, we are limited to works in English, but would certainly like
>to include studies from Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Ireland,
>Pakistan, South and other places in  Africa, the UK,  the US, and any other
>remnant of the British Empire  or anywhere else where there are good studies
>in historical archaeology in English.  Ultimately we would like to organize
>the bibliography topically.  Topics might include: indigenous peoples,
>colonialism, the overseas Chinese, enslavement, the African diaspora, the
>Indian diaspora, the Irish diaspora, mining, cities, gender, the construction
>of landscapes, etc.  But let's let  the good studies determine what the
>topics will actually be.
>
>Thanks a lot - I think that through all our efforts, we will be able to amass
>a bibliography that will be helpful to all, and we may even begin to
>counteract some of the accusations of parochialism that we level at ourselves
>and our colleagues.
>
>Diana Wall
>
Robert L. Schuyler
University of Pennsylvania Museum
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