You're right John, I particularly liked the article by Henry Glassie, 
and have to say it helped shape my archaeo-worldview.

On 10/17/2014 5:14 PM, John McCarthy wrote:
> Carl -
>
> I actually think the Importance of Material Things volume (edied by Leland
> Ferguson) includes a lot of structuralist other non-processionalist thought
> that still has relevance, especially in the context of STF and Stan's
> Method and Theory.
>
> John
>
> John P. McCarthy, RPA
> (soon to be late of Muncie, IN)
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Carl Steen <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this is relevant, but there's a bunch of really good
>> fundamental Historical Archaeology in the old Conference on Historic Sites
>> Archaeology papers, now available online at:
>> http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/archanth_historic_site_arch_conf_papers/
>>
>> I'd also recommend the first SHA special volume edied by Leland Ferguson,
>> and the reader edited by Robert Schuyler. This stuff is all pre-postmodern
>> so it may be viewed as quaint and irrelevant these days, but what the heck.
>> Inspired young me at least....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Carl Steen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Anna Agbe-Davies <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: HISTARCH <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 10:57 am
>> Subject: "the one [other] book I can't do without"
>>
>>
>> Hello HistArchers,
>>
>> I'm building a new course (undergrad historical archaeology) for next
>> year and I thought this might make an interesting topic for
>> conversation, so after consulting the syllabi on the SHA webpage, I'm
>> wondering:
>>
>> What is the one book (besides In Small Things Forgotten--which is pretty
>> much ubiquitous) that you like best for teaching an undergraduate course
>> in historical archaeology? And, even more crucially, why?
>>
>> I'll go first.  For me, there's no book like Uncommon Ground for the
>> clarity and unfussiness of the writing, the balance between text and
>> artifact data in the argument, and the clear social message of the
>> entire project.
>>
>> (Then again, I use it every year for another class, so I'm going to
>> resist my impulse to include it on this syllabus, too!)
>>
>> Happy Thursday, all,
>>
>> Anna
>>
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>> Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of Anthropology
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