Bob,
How about the article by Barbara Voss from 2005 (American Anthropologist
107:3, "From Casta to Californio: Social Identity and the Archaeology of
Culture Contact"). It was recently awarded the AAA Willey prize as the best
archaeology paper published in the American Anthropologist over a period of
three years. It's a great article.
For the African Burial Ground, you could consider all or part of the final
report that's on the web... there's a good chapter on the community
engagement aspects.
http://www.africanburialground.gov/ABG_FinalReports.htm
the main page has some other links...
http://www.africanburialground.gov/ABG_Main.htm
For other stuff in contemporary context, Shannon Dawdy's 2006 article in AA
on the post Katrina work was also great.
2006. The Taphonomy of Disaster and the (Re)formation of New Orleans.
American Anthropologist. 108(4): 719-730.
I'd also suggest the African Diaspora Archaeology Newlsetter as a great
source...lots of good articles. My students like reading it. It's located at
:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
For recent work on creolization and related ideas have a look at Chris
Fennell's work....He is probably be best guide as to which article.
and finally, not to toot my own horn -- oh heck why not -- but if you want
something on Freedmen's Town here in Houston, recently I (with David Bruner
and Robert Marcom) published a piece in the Bulletin of Texas Archeology
entitled:
"Urban Archeology and the Pressures of Gentrification: Claiming, Naming, and
Negotiating 'Freedom' in Freedmen's Town, Houston"
If you want a PDF let me know, since it's less likely to be on your shelf.
It's fairly accessible reading, I think. Contains both archaeological
ethnography and archaeology data.
cheers,
carol
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Carol McDavid, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc. (CARI)
Co-Director, Yates Community Archaeology Project
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Houston
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rice University
1638 Branard
Houston, TX 77006
www.publicarchaeology.org
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From: "Robert L. Schuyler" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:13 PM
Subject: Suggested Articles
> 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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