Dear Anne Stoll and others,

My query on Quaker sites has produced a great deal of feedback, most of it
of little use because it confirms, as I suspected, that while many projects
have involved work at Quaker sites, much of this remains unpublished or
underpublished (and I consider Marley Brown's dissertation as an EXCEPTION
to this category as it is available through University Microfilms and
hence, officially a publication).

What I was seeking was very much what Anne Stoll asked about, and I was/am
doing this on behalf of a grad student who is trying to write a term paper
on the topic of how archaeologists have approached Quaker sites, whether
they have developed models or frameworks similar to the one(s) developed to
approach the interpretation African-American sites (recent models, that is,
not the old dreaded outmoded wearisome pattern analysis nonsense).

So what we need is things we can put our hands on readily, as in
publications in journals, etc., reports on file at libraries so they can be
gotten on interlibrary loan, etc.  No one can produce a decent piece of
scholarship by phoning up everyone who's ever done some work at one type of
site or another and conducting informal, ad hoc interviews.

This sharpish and cranky remark (I'm having a bad semester) aside, I
appreciate everyone's helpfulness.  (John McCarthy did say something to the
effect that I had become a member of the old guard curmudgeonly core.)  My
student will attempt to work up some sort of framework for looking at
Quaker sites if that is what is called for, and I'm sure she'll produce a
bibliography that we will be happy to post to the list.  Don't look for
that after the 3rd week of December, however.

MCB


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Mary C. Beaudry
Associate Professor
Boston University
Department of Archaeology
Boston, MA 02215

tel. 617-353-3415
fax 617-353-6800

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