This volume offers a rich and informative introduction to North American archaeology for all those interested in the history and culture of North American natives.

• Organized around central topics and debates within the discipline.
  
• Illustrated with case studies based on the lives of real people, to emphasize human agency, cultural practice, the body, issues of inequality, and the politics of archaeological practice.
  
• Highlights current understandings of cultural and historical processes in North America and situates these...

This volume offers a rich and informative introduction to North American archaeology for all those interested in the history and culture of North American natives.

• Organized around central topics and debates within the discipline.
  
• Illustrated with case studies based on the lives of real people, to emphasize human agency, cultural practice, the body, issues of inequality, and the politics of archaeological practice.
  
• Highlights current understandings of cultural and historical processes in North America and situates these...

No one who reads this book will ever look at a button, a buckle, or a bead in quite the same way again. Diana Loren adroitly demonstrates how small finds associated with everyday dress and bodily adornment truly mattered in colonial discourses between Europeans and Native Americans over identity, social positioning, and power. Mary C. Beaudry, Boston University

Highly readable but also innovative in its approach to a broad array of material from diverse colonial contexts. Carolyn White, University of Nevada, Reno Brings together a sampling of the extensive literature on the...