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Publisher
Chipstone Foundation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The 2019 volume of Ceramics in America features exciting new discoveries in the field of American ceramics studies, from an early example of Chinese porcelain found in the New World to previously undocumented green-glazed earthenware made in early-nineteenth-century Philadelphia. New analytic information about the manufacture of hard-paste porcelain, also in the Philadelphia context, will be of special interest to students of American porcelain production....
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the Looking Glass explores how mirrors shaped human identity in North America from the earliest European explorations through the nineteenth century. Early Americans--African, Native, and European--had uses for and beliefs about reflective surfaces, largely associating reflection with ritual and magic, which predated the introduction of accurately reflective mirrors (ca. 1500). These new mirrors played a critical role in shaping a person's individual...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"By focusing on "racialization"--The marginalizing process in which racial categories are imposed on groups of people based on an outward characteristic - Charles Orser shows how historical archaeology can contribute to the study of race through the conscious examination of material culture. He demonstrates this in two case studies, one from the Five Points excavation in New York City, focusing on an immigrant Irish population, and the second from...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
From the early colonial period to the close of World War II, life in North America was predominantly agrarian and rural. Archaeological exploration of farmsteads unveils a surprising quantity of data about rural life, consumption patterns, and migrations across the continent. Mark Groover offers both case studies and an overview of current trends in farmstead archaeology in this exciting new work. He also proposes a research design and makes numerous...
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