Colleagues:

I need your advice on some suggested articles for a new undergraduate 
course being constructed here at Penn. The course will be on "The 
Anthropology of the Americas" and cover the entire New World from the 
first peopling up to the present. It will be one of the few courses 
at Penn, maybe the only one, to treat the Americas as one unit of 
study. A primary purpose will also be to demonstrate a general 
(cultural, lingusitic, physical and archaeology) anthropological 
approach to the subject.

Although I will not be a primary teacher of the course I am 
suggesting readings for major topics. I came up with some very good 
Ideas on key topics that Historical Archaeology could address (e.g. 
creolization - Ferguson's book; early settlement - the Kelso 
Jamestown book; other ethic groups - Wegar's edited volume on 
Overseas Chinese, etc. etc.). Suddenly we realized that everyone was 
doing the same thing- all suggesting BOOKS. We would have had poor 
undergraduates reading about 30 books in one semester.

I am going to keep the Kelso book in play but I need to suggest 
ARTICLES in place of the other books and I could use your help. What 
would be a good article - probably involving a case study rather than 
a theoretical discussion - for the following:

         (1) Early colonization (besides the Kelso book). For 
example, what is Henry Miller's best article to show all the interesting
                 discoveries on English adaptation in Maryland?

         (2) Creolizations - Ferguson's (or some other) best article 
that summaries his book.

         (3) European conquest - but archaeology of - anything on the 
Aztec Empire or something from North America?

         (4) African American Archaeology - slave period and/or free 
communities.

         (5) Asian American Archaeology - Wegar's best article or 
something else?

         (5) Archaeology of Race

         (6) Ethnic Identity

         (7) Archaeology of class

         (7) Contemporary socio-political setting for Historical 
Archaeology (e.g. what is the best article about the issues around the
                 African Burial Ground in NYC?).

Any suggestions?  I want Historical Archaeology to be involved in as 
much of the course as possible so prehistoric archaeology 
(Precolumbian Americas) will not dominate everything.

thanks,

Bob Schuyler



Robert L. Schuyler
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324

Tel: (215) 898-6965
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