Research Catalog

Title

The death of prehistory / edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Stephen A. Mrozowski.

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schmidt, Peter R. (Peter Ridgway), 1942-
• Mrozowski, Stephen A.
• Society for Historical Archaeology. Meeting (2010 : Amelia Island, Florida)

Description

xii, 377 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subjects

• Archaeology and history > Developing countries
• Antiquities, Prehistoric
• Indigenous peoples > Historiography
• Ethnoarchaeology
• Imperialism > Social aspects
• Archaeology > Philosophy > History
• Prehistoric peoples
• Ethnohistory

Note

• "The papers were initially written for presentation at the 2010 annual meetings of the Society of Historical Archaeology held in Amelia Island, Florida." (Preface)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-365) and index.

Contents

The death of prehistory : reforming the past, looking to the future / Peter R. Schmidt and Stephen A. Mrozowski -- 'Prehistory's' history / Alice Beck Kehoe -- Presencing the past : implications for bridging the history/prehistory divide / Paul Lane -- Routes to history : archaeology and being articulate in eastern Africa / Jonathan R. Walz -- Historical archaeology, colonial entanglements, and recuperating 'timeless' histories through structuralism / Peter R. Schmidt -- Swahili historical chronicles from an archaeological perspective : bridging history, archaeology, coast, and hinterland in southern Tanzania / Matthew Pawlowicz and Adria LaViolette -- Creating prehistory and protohistory : constructing otherness and politics of contemporary indigenous populations in India / Uzma Z. Rizvi -- History interrupted: doing 'historical archaeology' in Central America / Rosemary A. Joyce and Russell N. Sheptak -- Rethinking the archaeology of human/environmental interactions in deep time history / Kent G. Lightfoot -- Sites in history, history in sites : archaeology, historical anthropology and indigenous knowledge in the Chesapeake / Jeffrey L. Hantman -- The tyranny of prehistory and the search for a deeper history / Stephen A. Mrozowski -- Cultural practice and authenticity : the search for real Indians in New England in the 'historical' period / D. Rae Gould -- Sacred mesas : Pueblo time, space, and history in the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 / Joseph R. Aguilar and Robert W. Preucel -- Conclusion : Reflections on reforming the past, looking to the future / Stephen A. Mrozowski and Peter R. Schmidt -- Appendix: The chronicles of Mikindani, Sudi, and Lindi.

Call Number

JFD 14-1313

ISBN

• 0199684596 (cloth)
• 9780199684595 (cloth)

OCLC

865169240

Title

The death of prehistory / edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Stephen A. Mrozowski.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Copyright Date

©2013

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-365) and index.

Added Author

Schmidt, Peter R. (Peter Ridgway), 1942- editor.

Mrozowski, Stephen A., editor.

Society for Historical Archaeology. Meeting (2010 : Amelia Island, Florida)

Research Call Number

JFD 14-1313