Eric Drake,

You may want to submitt hat directly to them at the email address in their message.  did you sign up with histarch?

Sean

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Efstathios and Stacey,

Hello, my name is Eric Drake and I am an archaeologist with the Hiawatha
National Forest and a PhD candidate in the dept. of Anth  at
SUNY-Binghamton.  I was wondering if you are still interested in accepting
abstracts for your SHA session on Landscapes of Labor? I am interested in
linking trasnformations in labor relations and conditions to changes in
the structure and design of logging camps from the late 19th through early
20th centuries in the Upper Great Lakes.  More specifically, I plan to
address how the spatial organization of company operated logging camps
were constitutive of and by labor struggles between timber workers and
lumber barons and managers, and how this produced different lived
expereinces with captialism for different socially and eocnomically
defined groups involved with the logging industry.  If this is a topic
that interests you and fits with your session's goals, then please let me
know.  I look forward to hearing from you.  Take care.

Eric Drake



> Esteemed Collegues,
>   Enclosed is a paper call for a session Stacey Camp and myself are
> organizing for the 2007 SHAs. Our discussants for this session are Don
> Hardesty and Karen Metheny. For those of you conducting research
> relating to archaeological landscapes and productive enterprise, please
> feel free to submit paper ideas to the email addresses provided below.
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
>  Stathi Pappas
>
>
>  Landscapes of Labor: A Phenomenological Approach
>
>   The purpose of this session is to disseminate scholarship that
> analyzes differing emic perspectives of landscapes of labor caused by
> industrial ideology, personal identities, gender norms, and class roles
> within industrial societies. Scholarship from all regions and time
> periods are most welcome, although studies regarding industrial and
> proto-industrial landscapes are especially encouraged. Some studies
> have treated landscapes of labor as settings for control, dominance and
> resistance, discourse, creation of mythology and history, and social
> engineering. However, most studies indirectly examine the differing
> goals, interpretations, and values of landscape inhabitants.
> Phenomenological approaches provide an analytical framework
> particularly suited to exploring the multivocal and often didactic
> nature of landscapes of labor. Phenomenology is the understanding of
> space and place as it is experienced by the individual. The concepts of
> space as created by social relations and places as centers of human
> significance reinforce the subjective and experiential activity of
> landscape maintenance. The heterogeneity found among workers, managers,
> aristocrats of labor, and owners calls for analysis of how differing
> perceptions of the same landscape could create different social
> realities. Landscape is not passive, just as interaction is not simply
> discourse that is detached from importance or subjectivity. Instead,
> landscape becomes an empowering entity that is used and manipulated by
> individuals and groups to achieve goals. This means that categories
> such as class, gender, ethnicity, etc., provide a multiplicity of lines
> by which an individual may interpret a landscape based on their own
> self-identity. Some potential paper topics include:
>
>   • The intersection of pre-industrial immigrant labor forces with the
> industrial landscape of America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
>   • The expression, maintenance, or changing role of ethnic identities
> in the face of industrial ideology manifested in landscapes.
>   • The adoption, rejection, or creation of gender roles imbedded within
> landscapes of labor.
>   • The effect of class and status on the creation or reaffirmation of
> gender roles within the labor landscape.
>  • Landscape learning on the part of pre-industrial laborers.
>   • Cognitive models of strife surrounding labor landscapes based on
> different categories of personal identity.
>   • Pre-industrial landscape paradigms applied to industrialism creating
> hybrid landscapes.
>
>   If interested in participating please provide a short synopsis of your
> research to Efstathios I. Pappas and Stacey Camp at:
>
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>
>
>  ______________________________________________________
>
>  Efstathios I. Pappas, MS
>  Doctoral Student
>  Department of Anthropology/096
>  University of Nevada, Reno
>  Reno, NV 89557
>   (775) 323-5730
>