Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City [recurso electrónico] $c

Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered during excavations at sites where these people lived or worked. The stories are ethnohistorical or microhistorical studies created using archaeological and documentary data. As microhistories, they are concerned with particular people living at particular times in the past within the framework of world events. The world events framework will be provided in short introductions to chapters grouped by time periods and themes. The foreword by Mary Beaudry and the afterword by LuAnne DeCunzo bookend the individual case studies and add theoretical weight to the volume. Topics in the book include: · Native Americans and Europeans in New Amsterdam · Stories of Dutch women in the colonial period · African history in New York City, including the African Burial Ground · Craftsmen and Churchmen of New York City · A portrait of Stephen Allen, a New York City Mayor Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham focuses on specific individual life stories, or stories of groups of people, as a way to present archaeological theory and research. Archaeologists work with material culture--artifacts--to recreate daily lives and study how culture works; this book is an example of how to do this in a way that can attract people interested in history as well as in anthropological theory. As such, this volume is an invaluable resource for archaeologists, historians, ethnographers, anthropologists, and anybody interested in the rich history of one of the world's most influential cities, New York City Front Matter....Pages i-xx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 New Amsterdam: Americans and Europeans, Historical Background....Pages 3-6 Penhawitz and Wampage and the Seventeenth-Century World They Dominated....Pages 7-30 A Manhattan Hortus Medicus ?: Healing Herbs in Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam....Pages 31-55 Front Matter....Pages 57-57 Dutch Women in an English Colony, Historical Background....Pages 59-63 Sara Roelofse, Matron of New Amsterdam....Pages 65-88 Maria and Alida: Two Dutch Women in the English Hudson Valley....Pages 89-104 Ann Elizabeth Staats Schuyler, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Who Helped Shape Manhattan....Pages 105-123 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Africans in New York, Historical Background....Pages 127-131 The African Burial Ground in the Age of Revolution: A Landscape in Transition....Pages 133-158 HW: Epitaph for a Working Man....Pages 159-178 Finding Pinkster: The Ethnoarchaeology of Dancing in the Street....Pages 179-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Merchants Craftsmen and Working Men, Historical Background....Pages 205-210 The Van Voorhis Family: Artisans in Post-Colonial New York City....Pages 211-224 John Zuricher, Stone Cutter, and His Imprint on the Religious Landscape of Colonial New York....Pages 225-247 Wiert Valentine: Cartman of New York City Politics, Food and Drink in Early Republican New York....Pages 249-263 Evidence of Public Celebrations and Feasting: Politics and Agency in Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century New York....Pages 265-283 Place and Memory on the City Streets: The Revolutionary War Childhood of New York’s Artisan-Mayor, Stephen Allen....Pages 285-312 Public Life, Personal Grief: The Contrasting Existence of a Nineteenth Century New York Family....Pages 313-325 Anthony Van Arsdale Winans: New York Merchant, and His Daughter— The Canary of Lago Maggiore ....Pages 327-348 Back Matter....Pages 349-369 WINNER of the 2015 SHA Deetz Award!! Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered during excavations at sites where these people lived or worked. The stories are ethnohistorical or microhistorical studies created using archaeological and documentary data. As microhistories, they are concerned with particular people living at particular times in the past within the framework of world events. The world events framework will be provided in short introductions to chapters grouped by time periods and themes. The foreword by Mary Beaudry and the afterword by LuAnne DeCunzo bookend the individual case studies and add theoretical weight to the volume. Topics in the book include: · Native Americans and Europeans in New Amsterdam · Stories of Dutch women in the colonial period · African history in New York City, including the African Burial Ground · Craftsmen and Churchmen of New York City · A portrait of Stephen Allen, a New York City Mayor Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham focuses on specific individual life stories, or stories of groups of people, as a way to present archaeological theory and research. Archaeologists work with material culture-artifacts-to recreate daily lives and study how culture works; this book is an example of how to do this in a way that can attract people interested in history as well as in anthropological theory. As such, this volume is an invaluable resource for archaeologists, historians, ethnographers, anthropologists, and anybody interested in the rich history of one of the world's most influential cities, New York City This book is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered during excavations at sites where these people lived or worked. The stories are ethnohistorical or microhistorical studies created using archaeological and documentary data. As microhistories, they are concerned with particular people living at particular times in the past within the framework of world events. The world events framework will be provided in short introductions to chapters grouped by time periods and themes. The foreword by Mary Beaudry and the afterword by LuAnne DeCunzo bookend the individual case studies and add theoretical weight to the volume. Historical Archaeology of New York City focuses on specific individual life stories, or stories of groups of people, as a way to present archaeological theory and research. Archaeologists work with material culture-artifacts-to recreate daily lives and study how culture works; this book is an example of how to do this in a way that can attract people interested in history as well as in anthropological theory