{"product_id":"9781572332669","title":"Lines That Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe division of human society by race, class, and gender has been addressed by scholars in many of the social sciences. Now historical archaeologists are demonstrating how material culture can be used to examine the processes that have erected boundaries between people.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Drawing on case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume highlight diverse moments in the rise of capitalist civilization both in Western Europe and its colonies. In the first section, the contributors address the dynamics of the racial system that emerged from European colonialism. They show how archaeological remains shed light on the institution of slavery in the American Southeast, on the treatment of Native Americans by Mormon settlers, and on the color line in colonial southern Africa. The next group of articles considers how gender was negotiated in nineteenth-century New York City, in colonial Ecuador, and on Jamaican coffee plantations. A final section focuses on the issue of class division by examining the built environment of eighteenth-century Catalonia and material remains and housing from early industrial Massachusetts.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  These essays constitute an archaeology of capitalism and clearly demonstrate the importance of history in shaping cultural consciousness. Arguing that material culture is itself an active agent in the negotiation of social difference, they reveal the ways in which historical archaeologists can contribute to both the definition and dismantling of the lines that divide.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Editors:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames A. Delle is an assistant professor of anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College and the author of \u003ci\u003eAn Archaeology of Social Space: Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica's Blue Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Stephen A. Mrozowski is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, and co-author of \u003ci\u003eLiving on the Boott: Historical Archaeology of the Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell, Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Robert Paynter is a professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, author of \u003ci\u003eModels of Spatial Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Archaeology of Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035912061168,"sku":"9781572332669","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781572332669_p0.jpg?v=1769899977","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781572332669","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}