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The Valkyries' Loom
Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societiesIn The Valkyries’ Loom, Michèle Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of …
Memory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation
In this book, Megan Bailey uses archaeological data and historical records to document the treatment of enslaved people at L’Hermitage Plantation in Maryland from 1794 to 1827. …
Cuban Cultural Heritage
Cuban Cultural Heritage explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba. Starting with independence from …
Mythic Frontiers
The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created …
Baseball and Cultural Heritage
The influence of baseball heritage in society and culture Baseball’s past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its …
Eating in the Side Room
An archaeological study of African American foodways in nineteenth-century AnnapolisEating in the Side Room, Mark Warner uses the archaeological data of food remains recovered from …
Colonialism, Community, and Heritage in Native New England
Exploring museums and cultural centers in New England that hold important meanings for Native American communities today, this illuminating book offers a much-needed critique of …
Cultural Heritage Management
Even as places and objects that have particular cultural significance are increasingly valued in our global world, powerful forces threaten them with destruction. Cultural Heritage …
Heritage and Democracy
Examining cultural heritage within the context of democracyCultural heritage is a powerful tool in society, capable of producing both social harms as well as social goods and …
Heritage at the Interface
Bringing together high-profile cultural heritage sites from around the world, this volume shows how the term heritage has been used or understood by different groups of people over …
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage
Focusing on three communities in North, Central, and South America, Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage layers archaeological research with local knowledge in its …
Heritage of Value, Archaeology of Renown
These essays urge archaeologists to reexamine and to change their basic assumptions about how we assign value to cultural places and, beyond that, how we should understand and …