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 <
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> 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/
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> 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....
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> Carl Steen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anna Agbe-Davies <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: "the one [other] book I can't do without"
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> Hello HistArchers,
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> 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:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> (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!)
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> Happy Thursday, all,
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> Anna
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