The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers: Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River

The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers: Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River. Annalies Corbin. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. 237 pp.     

Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice: Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations

Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice: Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations . Matt Edgeworth, ed. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2006. 195 pages.     

Everyday Learning about Identities among Young Adolescents in Television Culture

Using a cultural studies approach, this study situates three young adolescents in their home, neighborhood, school, and peer cultures, and contextually analyzes their uses and interpretations of television. Analyses of each student's favorite television persona illuminate each of their identity projects, which are a primary kind of cultural acquisition process. I find qualitative differences in their everyday learning within television culture as compared to local cultures, although their learning about social power across cultures is reciprocal.     

Constructing Female Identities: Meaning Making in an Upper Middle Class Youth Culture.

Constructing Female Identities: Meaning Making in an Upper Middle Class Youth Culture. Amira Proweller. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 284 pp.     

An Archaeological Bibliography:

Abstract

The bibliography contains 302 references to archaeological phenomena and investigations in the northern sector of the Great Plains Province and spans the period between 1840 and 1930. Much of the bibliography is annotated.     

Natural Selection and Material Culture

Natural selection is the basis of all evolutionary applications in biology as well as studies of cultural process in archaeology. Natural selection is important because it allows us the tools to talk not only about variation in biological systems but also material culture that are the by-products of the human decision-making processes. In this paper, we provide a baseline of the concept of natural selection and explanatory application in evolutionary archaeology.     

Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change.

Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change. Chris Gosden and Chantal Knowles Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001. 234 pp.     

The Archaeological Process: An Introduction.; Archaeological Theory Today.

The Archaeological Process: An Introduction. Ian Hodder. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 242 pp.
Archaeological Theory Today. Ian Hodder. ed. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 328 pp.