TY - JOUR
T1 - Context and Interpretation
T2 - An Archaeology of Cultural Production
AU - Matthews, Christopher N.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This paper examines the construction of modern-world contexts in historical archaeology. To help draw out and understand the social and cultural contexts of capitalism, colonialism, and modernity, and how they may be materially understood, an explanation of the German history of everyday life school (Alltagsgeschichte) is presented. In this approach, the objects of historical study become the everyday cultural interpretations of past people and how these interpretations actively produced and reproduced cultures. This approach is illustrated by a landscape archaeology of the Bordley-Randall site in Annapolis, Maryland.
AB - This paper examines the construction of modern-world contexts in historical archaeology. To help draw out and understand the social and cultural contexts of capitalism, colonialism, and modernity, and how they may be materially understood, an explanation of the German history of everyday life school (Alltagsgeschichte) is presented. In this approach, the objects of historical study become the everyday cultural interpretations of past people and how these interpretations actively produced and reproduced cultures. This approach is illustrated by a landscape archaeology of the Bordley-Randall site in Annapolis, Maryland.
KW - Context
KW - Everyday life
KW - Interpretation
KW - Landscape archaeology
KW - Maryland
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=2342524153&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/A:1022898509184
DO - 10.1023/A:1022898509184
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:2342524153
SN - 1092-7697
VL - 3
SP - 261
EP - 282
JO - International Journal of Historical Archeology
JF - International Journal of Historical Archeology
IS - 4
ER -