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