1st Edition
Material Worlds Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity
1: An Historical Archaeology of Consumerism: Re-centering Objects, Re-engaging with Data
Barbara J. Heath.
2: Modeling Consumption: A Social Network Analysis of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale
Elliot H. Blair.
3: “The Blood and Life of a Commonwealth”: Illicit Trade, Identity Formation, and Imported Clay Tobacco Pipes in the 17th-century Potomac River Valley
Lauren K. McMillan.
4: Commoditization, Consumption, and Interpretive Complexity: The Contingent Role of Cowries in the Early Modern World
Barbara J. Heath.
5: Underpinning a Plantation: A Material Culture Approach to Consumerism at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Eleanor Breen.
6: Acquiring Transfer-Printed Ceramics for the Jefferson Household at Poplar Forest
Jack Gary.
7: “With sundry other sorts of small ware too tedious to mention:” Petty Consumerism on US Plantations
Lindsay Bloch and Anna S. Agbe-Davies.
8: Health Consumerism among Enslaved Virginians
Lori A. Lee.
9: The Abundance Index: Measuring Variation in Consumer Behavior in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Jillian E. Galle.
10: Exploring Enslaved Laborers’ Ceramic Investment and Market Access in Jamaica
Lynsey A. Bates.
11: Cotton Estates and Cotton Craft Production in the Colonial-Era Caribbean
Alan D. Armstrong and Mark W. Hauser.
12: Identity, Choice, and the Meaning of Material Culture: Two Distinct Villages on One Danish West Indies Sugar Estate
Elizabeth J. Kellar
13: “Ambitious to be conventional”: African American Expressive Culture and Consumer Imagination
Paul R. Mullins.
14: All Consuming Modernity
Charles R. Cobb.
15:“Open the Mind and Close the Sale”: Consumerism and the Archaeological Record
Ann Smart Martin.
Biography
Barbara J. Heath is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Eleanor E. Breen is a professional archaeologist for the City of Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
Lori A. Lee is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Flagler College, USA.
