Anna,
Wow! I must personally thank you for your glowing endorsement! It means a great deal to me.

Cheers!
Whitney


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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Anna Agbe-Davies <[log in to unmask]> </div><div>Date:10/17/2014  1:25 PM  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: [log in to unmask] </div><div>Subject: Re: "the one [other] book I can't do without" </div><div>
</div>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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Department of Anthropology
UNC-Chapel Hill
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