Hello again, all,
This is proving to be really interesting. I get HistArch as a digest,
so I'm just now seeing what some people wrote. Thanks to everyone who's
applied on- and off-list.
I appreciate the question about "what kind of course?" I was interested
to see what people would take "undergrad historical archaeology" to
mean. It's good to see such strong advocacy for method, theory, and
history of the discipline. Artifacts/modern material culture/lab
probably my next course! This one is meant to be a topical/area course
on the modern world via archaeology.
It's encouraging to find that none of these books is entirely new to me,
though people's comments have made me consider some from new angles.
FYI, these are the ones that folks mentioned to me off-list:
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[I use] Whitney Battle-Baptiste's book regularly with undergraduates...I
find that a lot of students really respond well to the text, and it
raises a lot of interesting discussion. I usually teach it in fieldwork
classes where we're discussing community archaeology and African
Diaspora archaeology, but I think it could also have a useful place in a
broader survey.
I've taught with a couple of the UPF "American Experience in
Archaeological Perspective" series, as well, although I have never found
them as successful as books like Uncommon Ground and Black Feminist
Archaeology. But students like them, they are short enough to get them
to read the whole thing, and they are affordable. Diana Loren's book on
dress is great, and I've also used Eleanor Casella's book on
institutional confinement.
[The] brief intro to Historical Archaeology by Barbara Little is really
good. Concise intro to the key issues, progressive in outlook, lots of
good examples, and cheap enough to be able to use with other books
I'm also very partial to Whitney Battle-Baptiste's book Black Feminist
Archaeology.
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best,
Anna
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