The archaeology of removal in North America / edited by Terrance Weik.

This edited volume brings together people seeking to understand what happens when human beings are forced out of their homes, and away from their usual places of work, play, worship, and well being. It illustrates how archaeologists are situated among the anthropologists and other scholars who are i...

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Other Authors: Weik, Terrance M. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2019.
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Physical Description:xii, 237 pages : illustrations, maps
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Anthropological, theoretical & historical contexts of removal / Terrance Weik, University of South Carolina
  • We can fly no farther: colonialism & displacement among the Piscataway of Southern Maryland / Alex J. Flick and Julia A. King, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  • Mapping Chickasaw removal / Terrance Weik, University of South Carolina
  • Whitewashing an African American landscape: the impact of industrial capitalism on the removal of rural people / Stefan Woehlke, University of Maryland and Matthew Reeves, James Madison's Montpelier
  • Worth(less): value and destruction in a nineteenth-century quarry town / Adam Fracchia, University of Maryland
  • Removal & remembering: archaeology and the legacies of displacement in Southern Appalachia / Audrey Horning, William & Mary University
  • Creating a community in confinement: the development of neighborhoods in Amache, a WWII Japanese-American internment camp / April Kamp-Whittaker, Arizona State University, and Bonnie J. Clark, University of Denver
  • Topographies of removal: rethinking the archaeology of prisons / Maria Theresia Starzmann, Project Manager United Nations, New York Office
  • The Janus face of removal / Charles E. Orser, Vanderbilt University.