0415188059.Routledge.The.Familiar.Past.Archaeologies.of.Late-Historical.Britain.Feb.1999.pdf

THE FAMILIAR PAST?

The popular perception of archaeologists as people who dig up things from the

prehistoric or classical world is being challenged. Archaeology, as the study of

physical remains of the human past, includes the Victorian workhouse as well as

the Bronze Age axe. This collection surveys material culture from 1500 to the

present day and demonstrates how its study can bring a new understanding to

what we think of as the familiar past.

The Familiar Past? draws together current interpretative work in Britain,

explicitly influenced by recent methodological and theoretical developments.

Fourteen case studies include discussion of issues such as the origins of modernity

in urban contexts, the historical anthropology of food, the social and spatial

construction of country houses, the social history of a workhouse site, changes in

memorial forms and inscriptions, and the archaeological treatment of gardens.

The study of the material past can address complex social issues concerning

power, identity and meaning. Using a multitude of sources – documentary, literary

and material – historical archaeologists are well-equipped to examine these

questions.

The Familiar Past? is essential reading for students of archaeology and social

history.

Sarah Tarlow is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter.

Susie West is completing her PhD at the University of East Anglia.

THE FAMILIAR

PAST?

Archaeologies of later historical Britain

Edited by Sarah Tarlow and Susie West

London and New York

First published 1999

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

individual chapters, the contributors

or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,

now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,

or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

The Familiar Past? : archaeologies of later historical Britain / edited by

Sarah Tarlow and Susie West.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Great Britain – Historiography. 2. Excavations (Archaeology) – Great

Britain. 3. Great Britain – Antiquities. I. Tarlow, Sarah, II. West, Susie

DA1.F36 1999

936. 1–dc21

98-8227

ISBN 0–415–18805–9 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–18806–7 (pbk)

ISBN 0–203–01909–1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0–203–20603–7 (Glassbook Format)

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