Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement

266 Pages·2013·7.1 MB·English

by  Mary C. Beaudry

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Mary C. Beaudry (cid:129) Travis G. Parno
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Archaeologies of Mobility
and Movement
Editors
Mary C. Beaudry Travis G. Parno
Archaeology Archaeology
Boston University Boston University
Boston, MA, USA Boston, MA, USA
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Preface

In November 2011, the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory
(CHAT) group met in Boston at Boston University. CHAT was conceived as a way,
through informal annual meetings, to provide opportunities for dialogue among
researchers in later historical archaeology and the archaeology of the contemporary
world and to promote interdisciplinary exchanges between archaeologists and other
scholars. While the group had ventured to Dublin in 2005, this was the fi rst time
since its founding in the UK in 2003 that the group held its annual conference in
North America.
In recognition of CHAT’s temporary migration across the Atlantic, its organizers
selected the theme of “People and Things in Motion” for the 2011 conference; the
meeting drew over 100 attendees from across the globe and featured 3 days of
papers and a keynote address delivered by University of Chicago Associate Professor
of Anthropology and 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Shannon Dawdy. Papers
were presented by speakers from six continents, highlighting the truly global nature
of the CHAT organization.
Inspired by the quality of the papers delivered at the conference, we invited sev-
eral of the speakers to revise their papers for publication in a book that explores
ways of addressing movement and mobility from archaeological perspectives.
Those who accepted our invitation also agreed to subject their revised chapters to a
round-robin review process as well as to changes requested by the editors, and the
result is the present volume. Shannon Dawdy agreed to read the revised chapters
and to prepare a commentary, which appears here as the Afterword.
We would like to thank the CHAT Steering Committee and its Chair, Rodney
Harrison, for supporting the conference and encouraging a publication based on its
theme of people and things in motion; we also thank all of the conference participants
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and the many Boston University graduate students, in particular Brent Fortenberry,
who helped organize the conference and who worked tirelessly to make it a success.
We also thank the contributors of this volume who were so prompt in preparing their
papers for review and in revising them for publication, as well as in responding
quickly to our queries about references, illustrations, and other matters.
Boston, MA, USA Mary C. Beaudry
Travis G. Parno
Contents
1 Introduction: Mobilities in Contemporary and Historical
Archaeology ............................................................................................. 1
Mary C. Beaudry and Travis G. Parno
Part I Objects in Motion
2 Intercontinental Flows of Desire: Brass Kettles in Lapland
and in the Colony of New Sweden ......................................................... 17
Visa Immonen
3 The Movement of People and Things in the Capitania
de Pernambuco: Challenges for Archaeological Interpretation ......... 31
Scott Joseph Allen
4 Farmers, Sorting Folds, Earmarks, and Sheep in Iceland .................. 47
Oscar Aldred
5 Mobility Ahead of Its Time: A Fifteenth- Century Austrian
Pocket Sundial as a Trailblazing Instrument for Time
Measurement on Travels ........................................................................ 65
Ronald Salzer
Part II People in Motion
6 The Archaeological Study of the Military Dependents
Villages of Taiwan ................................................................................... 83
Chieh-fu Jeff Cheng and Ellen Hsieh
7 Buried Memories: Wartime Caches and Family History
in Estonia ................................................................................................. 101
Mats Burström
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