Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction

   • Heather Burke

   Pages 1-9

3. An Anatomy of Ideology

   • Heather Burke

   Pages 11-35

4. An Introduction to Armidale

   • Heather Burke

   Pages 37-81

5. Materials and Methods

   • Heather Burke

   Pages 83-102

6. The Semiotics of Social Identity

   • Heather Burke

   Pages 103-142

7. Relations of Meaning and Relations of Membership

   • Heather Burke

   Pages 143-161

8. Style in Space

   • Heather Burke

   Pages 163-180

9. Styles of Ideology

   • Heather Burke

   Pages 181-216

10. Investments of Meaning

    • Heather Burke

    Pages 217-230

11. Back Matter

    Pages 231-276

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Focusing on the city of Armidale during the period 1830 to 1930, this book investigates the relationship between the development of capitalism in a particular region (New England, Australia) and the expression of ideology within architectural style. The author analyzes how style encodes meaning and how it relates to the social contexts and relationships within capitalism, which in turn are related to the construction of ideology over time.

• artifacts
• capitalism
• historical archaeology
• ideology
• social identity

`The study of capitalism challenges archaeologists and thus it is impressive when a scholar succesfully rises to this challenge. Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology meets this challenge and should be read by any scholar interested in understanding capitalism.'
American Antiquity, 66:1 (2001)
`Heather Burke has produced a very important, perhaps landmark study using archaeological evidence to interpret and understand the evolving boundaries of class and status in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I recommend this book to all historical archaeologists interested in issues of class structure, ideology, material culture or reading building fabric.'
Australasian Historical Archaeology, 18 (2000)
`This volume is a welcome addition to the study of architecture from archaeological perspective ... this body of data from the rural city of Armidale will provide useful comparative material for similar studies undertaken in other former British colonies, for example, in the United States and South Africa. '
Historical Archaeology, 35:2 (2001)

• University of New England, Armidale, Australia

  Heather Burke

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