Essas in Honoor of Jmes Dee Edited b Ma:y1Elm D 'Agostin0o Eliabeth Prine Eleanor Casell Argot FWier Kroeber Anthropological S ociety Papers Nu:mb er 7;9, 199050 The Written and the Wrought com plementar y Sources in Historicfal Anthropology ....... ------- i The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, Number 79 D 1995 Kroeber Anthropological Society Editorial Committee: Pia-Kristina Anderson Elizabeth Prine Eleanor Conlin Casella Roderick Kenji Tierney Mary Ellin D'Agostino Margot Winer Jenna Johnson-Kuhn Printed by GRT Printing, Oakland, CA Membership: Subscription is by membership in the Kroeber Anthropological Society. Dues for student members are $18.00, for regular members (including institutions) are $20.00, and all foreign subscribers $24.00 in US currency. Back issues of the Papers are available for $12.00 per issue plus $2.00 shipping and handling in the United States, Mexico, and Canada; foreign orders should add $4.00 shipping and handling. 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All inquiries should be sent to: Kroeber Anthropological Society Department of Anthropology University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-3710 email: kas@a,)qal.berkeley.edu Essas in Honoor of Jmes Dee Edited b Ma:y1Elm D 'Agostin0o Eliabeth Prine Eleanor Casell Argot FWier Kroeber Anthropological S ociety Papers Nu:mb er 7;9, 199050 The Written and the Wrought com plementar y Sources in Historicfal Anthropology ....... ------- i Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, No. 79, 1995 Special Edition: The Written and the Wrought: Complementary Sources in Historical Anthropology. Essays in Honor of James Deetz Edited by Mary Ellin D 'Agostino, Elizabeth Prine, Eleanor Casella, and Margot Winer Contents: Preface ........................................................ i Introduction: Ethnography in Retrospect Mary C. Beaudry ..................................................... Widows, "Free Sisters," and "Independent Girls": Historic Models and An Archaeology of Post-Medieval English Gender Systems Alison Bell ........................................................ 17 "A Woman Doesn't Represent Business Here": Negotiating Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Australia Eleanor Conlin Casella ............................................... 33 Beads as Silent Witnesses of an African-American Past: Social Identity and the Artifacts of Slavery in Annapolis, Maryland Anne Yentsch ........................................................ 44 The Architecture of Patriarchy: Houses, Women and Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century South African Countryside Martin Hall ........................................................ 61 The Painted, Poetic Landscape: Reading Power in Nineteenth-Century Textual and Visual Representations of the Eastern Cape Frontier Margot Winer ........................................................ 74 Documents, Historiography and Material Culture in Historical Archaeology James Deetz and Patricia Scott ........................................ 110 A Full Complement: Employing Diverse Sources in Historical Anthropology Mary Ellin D'Agostino ............................................... 116 From Winter Doldrums to Winter Counts: Politics and Historical Archaeology Elizabeth Prine ..................................................... 137 Rethinking the Carter's Grove Slave Quarter Reconstruction: A Proposal Maria Franklin ..................................................... 147 The Shamanistic "Text" in Southern New England Kathleen Bragdon ................................................. 165 Debunking the Myth: Jesuit Texts and History and Archaeology in Baja California Justin Hyland . ................................................... 177 Lead Type and Printer's Devils: Newspapers in Nineteenth-Century California Richard Hitchcock ............. ................................... 189 Viking Age Ironworking: The Evidence from Old Norse Literature Mark E. Hall ..................................................... 195 The Impact of the Media on the Formation of the Cultural Landscape of the White Pine Mining District Allyson Brooks ................................................... 204 Socio-Economic Change in Historic Halawa Valley, Hawaii Pia-Kristina Anderson ............................................ 212 Landscapes of History in the Anahulu Valley, Hawaiian Islands Patrick V Kirch .................................................. 217 The Archaeology of the Post-Colonial Pacific Rim Margaret Purser ................................................. 228 The Dominance of the Document and the Arrogance of the Artifact: A Prehistorian's View Larry Zimmerman ............. ................................... 235 Preface In 1967, the first annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology conference was convened. The Society was established with the goal of bringing together those of us who work "after prehistory," providing a forum for the exchange of ideas relating to the methodological and theoretical problems specific to work in the historical period. The past twenty-eight years have been productive; today, anthropologists and archaeologists of all periods, regions, and theoretical perspectives are paying more attention to the era since contact between expanding European spheres and local peoples across the world. We are turning to explorations of identity emergence, considering how colonial and post-colonial contexts have engendered new nationalisms. The issue of cultural accommodation/assimilation is being considered with increasing sophistication, as is the dialectic between material culture and culture itself. Questions about the articulation of cultural categories such as gender, class, and ethnicity are being addressed throughout the discipline. These new directions are leading us toward truly interdisciplinary explorations of past cultures and societies by drawing on multiple lines of evidence. The papers in this volume explore a variety of uses of the written and the wrought while examining the types of anthropological problems they can address. Theoretical approaches and case studies are combined to illustrate and explain how a variety of rich sources can add to our knowledge of past cultures. The seventeen papers in this edition of KAS were originally presented at an all-day session at the 1994 Society for Historical and Underwater Archaeology annual conference in Vancouver, B.C. The session organizers were Eleanor Casella, Mary Ellin D'Agostino, Elizabeth Prine and Margot Winer, all graduate students in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley at the time. Mary Beaudry and Larry Zimmerman served as discussants for the morning and afternoon sessions respectively, while Allison Wylie provided a commentary on the session as a whole. Denis Gojak's paper "Talking Dirty" and Allison Wylie's commentary have not been included in this publication. Obviously, the influence of Jim Deetz has been tremendous in Historical Archaeology. We conceived of this project during Jim's last semester in residency at UC Berkeley. As a recognition of his enthusiastic and sound advice we offer this volume as (yet another!) festschrift in his name. We would also like to recognize UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities for its generous support of the Contact Studies Reading Group, the weekly seminar that sparked our collaboration. Finally we would like to thank Madeline Anderson and the staff at the Instructional and Collections Computing Facility for enabling us to produce this volume. Mary Ellin D'Agostino Elizabeth Prine Eleanor Casella Margot Winer Berkeley, March 1995