Anthropology 2100 Lecture Notes - Plantation Estate, Blockhouse, Kingsley Plantation
2 Apr 2013
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Historically people of higher status are more likely to be literate and represented in the documentary record and the under-classes are often left out of documentary history but historical archaeology illuminates their lives. In 1970 the significance of black history reached the bureaucrats and preservation laws were applied to federal lands and there were more plantation excavations. Four themes in the archaeology of slavery: living conditions under slavery 2) status differences within the plantation community, relationships of planter dominance and slave resistance, formation of african american cultural identity. Teresa singleton - historical archaeology as an ethnic archaeology of the other : Archaeology is a field dominated by middle class white people and it has produced studies of ethnicity that reflect the perspectives of the investigators rather than the perspectives of those being investigated. The opposite of what it was intended to do but there needs to be more historical archaeology undertaken by (or in cooperation with) descendant communities.
