March 2
Colonial Arts and Material Culture
EARLY AC HOMEPAGE | LECTURE NOTES
Reading:
- John A. Kouwenhoven, "American Culture: Words or
Things?" in Kouwenhoven, Half a Truth Is Better
Than None (University of Chicago, 1982) pp. 11-29.
- James Deetz, "Recalling Things Forgotten:
Archaeology and the American Artifact," in Deetz, In
Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early American
Life ( Doubleday, 1980), pp. 2-25.
Other materials for lecture:
- APVA Jamestown Recovery
Project :
- what's
been found:
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Laurel
Thatcher Ulrich's gallery of 18th-century images and
objects
- Randy
Bass's Material Culture in Colonial America
- Thomas
Kendel stone, Wakefield, MA, 1678
- John
Foster stone, Northern Burial Ground, Dorchester,
MA, 1681
- Lt.
William Hescy stone, 1689
- Thaddeus
Maccarty stone, Boston, 1705
- Buckley
stone, Copp's Hill, Boston, 1716
- Cpt.
Nathanial Waldron stone, Newport, RI, 1769
- Small
Child Gravestone, Rhode Island, 1771
- In
memory of Caesar, 1780
- Mary
and John Pember stone, Franklin, CT, 1783
- Mary
Hinckely stone, Brookfield, MA, 1798
- Seventeenth-century
American Architecture
- Tithing-stick
- another object
- Find-a-grave
Other useful texts: