Title & Author:

Landscape archaeology : reading and interpreting the American historical landscape / edited by Rebecca Yamin and Karen Bescherer Metheny.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1996.

Description:

xlii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and index.
Introduction : Close attention to place -- landscape studies by historical archaeologists / Anne Elizabeth Yentsch -- Part I : Landscape biographies -- Why Gardens? / Mary C. Beaudry -- Methods in landscape archaeology : research strategies in a historic New Jersey garden / Karen Bescherer Metheny [and others] -- The greenhouse effect : gender-related traditions in eighteenth-century gardening / Carmen A. Weber -- Giant in the Earth : George Washington, landscape designer / Dennis J. Pogue -- The archaeology of Rachel's garden / Larry McKee -- Father Rapp's garden at economy : harmony society culture in microcosm / Lu Anne De Cunzo [and others] -- Part II : Vernacular and sacred space -- Social relations and the cultural landscape / J. Edward Hood -- "One of the best farms in Essex county" : the changing domestic landscape of a tenant who became an owner / Sara F. Mascia -- Farmers and gentleman farmers : the nineteenth-century suburban landscape / Rebecca Yamin and Sarah T. Bridges -- Charleston townhouse : archaeology, architecture, and the urban landscape, 1750-1850 / Martha A. Zierden and Bernard L. Herman -- The construction of sanctity : landscape and ritual in a religious community / Elizabeth Kryder-Reid -- "The transient nature of all things sublunary" : romanticism, history, and ruins in nineteenth-century southern Maryland / Julia A. King.

Summary:

"The essays collected in this volume represent exciting new directions in the study of America's landscapes. Written from a post-processualist viewpoint, these analyses go beyond directly observable phenomena to explain the particular significance that people have attached to the environments they create for themselves. As the editors note, "This volume includes many searching looks at the landscape, not just to understand ourselves, but to understand the context for other peoples' lives in other times, to unravel the landscapes they created and explain the meanings embedded in them."" "The book's overall approach is interpretive and interdisciplinary, drawing not simply on archaeological evidence but on oral history, written sources, ethnographic data, and human experience. The contributors examine a variety of questions and methods for recovering and interpreting past landscapes. How, for example, did an elite family in eighteenth-century New Jersey express its status and values through its manipulation of the landscape and how, indeed, do archaeologists derive that information from remains in the ground? What do the ruins left standing in a rural landscape say about attitudes toward time and family? How do the fields and yards of small farms reveal sociopolitical forces affecting the society at large?"--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0870499203 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780870499203 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape archaeology.
Landscape assessment.
Garden archaeology.
Archéologie du paysage.
Paysages Évaluation.
Archéologie des jardins.
15.30 archaeology: general.
Archäologie
Garten
Landschaft
Aufsatzsammlung
Landschappen.
Archeologie.
USA

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Yamin, Rebecca, 1942-
Metheny, Karen Bescherer, 1960-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 119431
Call No.: ID CC75.L33; ID:96-B372
Status: Available