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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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Rosewood Massacre
The Rosewood Massacre investigates the 1923 massacre that devastated the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. The town was burned to the ground by …
Slavery behind the Wall
Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire and thus the most plantations. The lack of archaeological data for interpreting these sites is a glaring void in …
Race, Place, and Memory
A revealing work of public history that shows how communities remember their pasts in different ways to fit specific narratives, Race, Place, and Memory charts the ebb and flow of …
Crossroads And Cosmologies
Christopher Fennell offers a fresh perspective on ways that the earliest enslaved Africans preserved vital aspects of their traditions and identities in the New World. He also …
Ancestors of Worthy Life
Recognizing the lives of the enslaved at the historic site of Mount ClareEnslaved African Americans helped transform the United States economy, culture, and history. Yet these …
Cuban Cultural Heritage
The role of cultural heritage and museums in constructing national identity in postcolonial CubaDuring Fidel Castro's rule, Cuban revolutionaries coopted and reinterpreted the …
Critical Theory and the Anthropology of Heritage Landscapes
This book explores the sociopolitical contexts of heritage landscapes and the many issues that emerge when different interest groups attempt to gain control over them. Based on …