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Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology

Style, Social Identity, and Capitalism in an Australian Town

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Heather Burke

    1. University of New England, Armidale, Australia

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Part of the book series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology (CGHA)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Reviews

`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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of New England, Armidale, Australia

    Heather Burke

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology

  • Book Subtitle: Style, Social Identity, and Capitalism in an Australian Town

  • Authors: Heather Burke

  • Series Title: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4769-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46066-1Published: 31 August 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7159-5Published: 04 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4769-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0439

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 276

  • Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology, History, general

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