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Focuses on specific individual life stories, or stories of groups of people, as a way to present archaeological theory and research
Creates a collection of narratives of people who have lived in New York City during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries using archaeological data
Contains a forward by renowned archaeological theorist Mary Beaudry
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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New Amsterdam: Americans and Europeans
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Front Matter
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Merchants, Craftsmen, and Working Men
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Front Matter
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About this book
Historical Archaeology of New York City is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered during excavations at sites where these people lived or worked. The stories are ethnohistorical or microhistorical studies created using archaeological and documentary data. As microhistories, they are concerned with particular people living at particular times in the past within the framework of world events. The world events framework will be provided in short introductions to chapters grouped by time periods and themes. The foreword by Mary Beaudry and the afterword by LuAnne DeCunzo bookend the individual case studies and add theoretical weight to the volume. Historical Archaeology of New York City focuses on specific individual life stories, or stories of groups of people, as a way to present archaeological theory and research. Archaeologists work with material culture—artifacts—to recreate daily lives and study how culture works; this book is an example of how to do this in a way that can attract people interested in history as well as in anthropological theory.
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Editors and Affiliations
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URS Corporation, School of visual arts, Burlington, USA
Meta F. Janowitz
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AKRF, Inc., NEW YORK, USA
Diane Dallal
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City
Editors: Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5272-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5271-3Published: 03 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9751-7Published: 06 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5272-0Published: 03 February 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 369
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies