Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

488 Pages·2015·18.07 MB·English

by  Mark P. Leone

Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Series Editor:
Charles E. Orser Jr.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Mark P. Leone • Jocelyn E. Knauf
Editors
Historical Archaeologies
of Capitalism
Second Edition
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Editors
Mark P. Leone Jocelyn E. Knauf
University of Maryland Washington
College Park District of Columbia
Maryland USA
USA
ISSN 1574-0439
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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Acknowledgements
This is not a second edition in any usual sense. This is a whole new book for a
changed, maturing field. Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism came out in 1999
and was read quite a lot. It was the product of a seminar at the School of American
Research in Santa Fe and came from the willingness of Douglas Schwartz, Presi-
dent of the School, to see historical archaeology think through a problem. Eliot Wer-
ner published the book through his series at Plenum. Parker Potter, Jr., and I edited
the book for the series edited by Charles Orser.
Our book attempted to illustrate how to use the twins of capitalism and Marx-
ist approaches to understanding modern society and to vivify a new approach for
historical archaeology, one that linked a commitment to working in and with com-
munities to an economic and political analysis of how their needs and conditions
came to be.
The foil for the book was Leone’s dissatisfaction with the archaeologies of Stan
South and Jim Deetz, of whose major founding initiatives linked neither the rela-
tively recent past to the present, nor the self-evident needs of communities today to
their recent origins.
Parker Potter, Jr. coedited the first version of the book. He initiated the opera-
tion of Archaeology in Public in Annapolis, pulled it off successfully, published it
as his dissertation at Brown, knew the archaeology, and did lots of the fieldwork,
the thinking, and organizing. He did the networking and much of the organizing
for the conference. He kept both the peace and the sense of purpose at the Santa Fe
conference. He provided the balance for those we invited who did not agree with a
Marxist approach.
This new book is fully Marxist and is composed of the third generation of schol-
ars in our field who are freed from the history of how the field began, but who have
done good field work with lots of data behind them. They are active internationally.
The first edition of this book was limited to North America. This book includes
archaeology from the North Atlantic, Scandinavia, Ireland, West Africa, the Carib-
bean, and Latin America. Historical archaeology has broadened out and this volume
is intended to report how that expansion shows the impact of capitalism’s processes.
As you read essays whose subjects are beyond North America, you will see a sure-
footedness that comes from the use of ideas from European social theory as we have
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come to read it and use it within American anthropology. These are mature essays,
intellectually. In their maturity is exhilaration quite new to our field.
The new historical archaeology of the North Pacific rim is not in this book.
We tried to include it but could not make the right contacts in time. There is now
a historical archaeology of Japanese expansion north into the islands and island
chains north of the homeland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There is
archaeology of the Portuguese expansion to Macau. All this is beginning, and is to
be included in our anticipations for our field, but is not in our book now.
This is a book that comes out of the historical archaeologists at the University
of Maryland. We proudly show our commitment to our archaeology, to historical
archaeology in particular, and to the effects of our work in Annapolis and on Mary-
land’s Eastern Shore. We include our commitment to our many communities and
constituents with and for whom we work. We also include our commitment to labor
history, initiated by Paul A. Shackel, and to reaching beyond North America and
to showing off the best work of our graduate students. All this makes us proud and
forms our way of contributing to the growth and energy of historical archaeology.
Leone remains grateful for the intellectual leadership of Thomas Patterson and
Charles Orser who have guided him through the intellectual world of modern Marx-
ism. He is grateful for the work and originality of the many students who have made
Archaeology in Annapolis successful. Many mayors and aldermen and women of
the City of Annapolis have stood behind this archaeological project for 30 years.
This is a unique commitment within American science. I thank former mayor, Ellen
Moyer, in particular. She understands the link between a research university and a
city whose identity is built around its historical identity, and has acted on that un-
derstanding for 30 years.
Michael Roller introduced Mark Leone to Slovaj Žižek and his work in The
Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), The Plague of Fantasies (1997) and Less than
Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (2012). These are not
easy books and Mike Roller has been a good guide through the ideas in them. Only
through Žižek has Leone been able to understand the importance of Walter Benja-
min and how to see the tie between our archaeological data and our lives.
We are grateful to Mary Furlong, Janna Napoli, and Amelia Hood for the organi-
zation that allowed this volume to happen successfully.
Teresa Krauss is an editor’s editor and a writer’s editor. She knew how to make
me want to do what I needed to do, and to get it done on time. Thank you.
We would like to thank our families for their encouragement. Nan Wells and
Veronika Wells Leone cheered Leone on.
Luke Hall-Jordan also provided invaluable support to Jocelyn Knauf throughout
the creation of this volume.
References
Žižek, S. (1989). The sublime object of ideology. London: Verso.
Žižek, S. (1997). The plague of fantasies. London: Verso.
Žižek, S. (2012). Less than nothing: Hegel and the shadow of dialectical materialism. London:
Verso.
Contents
Part I Introductions
1 Introduction to Historical Archaeologies
of Capitalism, Second Edition.................................................................... 3
Mark P. Leone and Jocelyn E. Knauf
Part II North America: East Coast
2 Diabolical Consumerism: Mass Psychology and Social
Production between the Gilded and the Golden Ages ............................ 25
Michael Roller
3 Alienation, Praxis and Significant Social Transformation
Through Historical Archaeology ............................................................... 51
Daniel O. Sayers
4 What Does Womanhood Have to Do with Capitalism?:
Normalized Domesticity and the Rise of Industrialized Food
in Annapolis, MD, 1870–1930 ................................................................... 77
Jocelyn E. Knauf
5 Archaeology of Telling Time: Plants and the Greenhouse at
Wye House Plantation ................................................................................ 103
Mark P. Leone and Elizabeth F. Pruitt
6 Limestone and Ironstone: Capitalism, Value, and
Destruction in a Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Quarry Town ..... 127
Adam Fracchia and Stephen A. Brighton
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Part III North America: West Coast
7 Consumption in World War II Japanese American
Incarceration Camps ............................................................................... 149
Laura Ng and Stacey Lynn Camp
8 Rethinking Feng Shui .............................................................................. 181
John Molenda
Part IV North Atlantic, Scandinavia, and Ireland
9 T he First European Colonization of the North Atlantic ....................... 203
George Hambrecht
10 Capitalism and Mobility in the North Atlantic ..................................... 227
Gavin Lucas and Ágústa Edwald
11 Metals of Metabolism: The Construction of Industrial Space
and the Commodification of Early Modern Sápmi ............................... 249
Jonas M. Nordin
12 Materialising Power Struggles of Political Imprisonment at
Long Kesh/Maze Prison, Northern Ireland ........................................... 273
Laura McAtackney
Part V Latin America and the Caribbean
13 Las Cadenas que más nos Encadenan son las Cadenas que
Hemos Roto: Plantation Systems, Capitalist Mentalities,
and the Production of Space, Place, and Identity in
Historical Archaeology ............................................................................ 295
Samuel R. Sweitz
14 Historical Archaeology Bottom-Up: Notes from Colombia ................. 327
Cristóbal Gnecco
15 A Spectral Haunting of Society: Longue Durèe Archaeologies
of Capitalism and Antimarkets in Colonial Guatemala ....................... 345
Guido Pezzarossi
16 The Politics of Work, “Poor Whites,” and Plantation
Capitalism in Barbados ........................................................................... 375
Matthew C. Reilly
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17 Sugar Economics: A Visual Economy of the Plantation
Landscape in Colonial Dominica ............................................................ 399
Zev A. Cossin and Mark W. Hauser
Part VI Africa
18 An Archaeology of Predation. Capitalism and the Coloniality
of Power in Equatorial Guinea (Central Africa) ................................... 421
Alfredo González-Ruibal
19 The Ruins of French Imperialism: An Archaeology of Rural
Dislocations in Twentieth-Century Senegal ........................................... 445
François G. Richard
Index ................................................................................................................ 467
Contributors
Stephen A. Brighton Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD, USA
Stacey Lynn Camp Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of
Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
Zev A. Cossin Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
Ágústa Edwald Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen,
Scotland
Adam Fracchia Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD, USA
Cristóbal Gnecco Department of Anthropology, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán,
Colombia
Alfredo González-Ruibal Institute of Heritage Studies (Incipit), Spanish
National Research Council (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
George Hambrecht Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD, USA
Mark W. Hauser Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL, USA
Jocelyn E. Knauf Independent Scholar, Washington, DC, USA
Mark P. Leone Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD, USA
Gavin Lucas Department of Archaeology, University of Iceland, Reykjavík,
Iceland
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