The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity was constructed and lived before plantation slavery was racialized by the legal codification of races. Using the historic Sylvester Manor Plantation site turned archaeological dig as a case study, Hayes draws...
The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and whit...
Insightful. Challenges archaeologists to think deeply about how we study colonialism. Lee M. Panich, coeditor of Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory Manages the rare feat of offering a range of detailed case studies that engage in a much broader comparative debate. Peter van Dommelen, coeditor of Rural Landscapes of the Punic World Facilitates critical engagement not only with colonialism s pasts, but perhaps more importantly, with its presents and futures. The volume s international contributors draw on...
Insightful. Challenges archaeologists to think deeply about how we study colonialism. Lee M. Panich, coeditor of Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish ...
