Interpreting ideology in historical archaeology: The William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland

Introduction to Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, Second Edition

“…The archaeological study of capitalism through Marxist approaches began four decades ago. Influenced by the work of the Frankfurt School and the structural Marxism of Louis Althusser (1971), Leone (1981Leone ( , 1984 and colleagues (Handsman 1981;Leone et al 1987) explored the potential of "critical archaeology" to expose the workings of ideology in capitalist systems. In the 1980s, Randall McGuire, Robert Paynter, and other scholars began to utilize Marxist scholarship to examine the "anthropological political economy," adopting the Hegelian concept for the dialectic (McGuire 1992;McGuire and Paynter 1991;Paynter 1985Paynter , 1988.…”

Identities

“…As Mullins outlines, the concept of ideology has been crucial in these debates particularly in the 1980s (see Miller, Rowlands, and Tilley 1989;Miller and Tilley 1984), and has been most articulately championed by Mark Leone (1984); drawing upon the work of Althusser. From this perspective, ideology is lived relations that give human subjects coherence, though that coherence is an illusion produced by structures that exist outside our everyday practical consciousness.…”

Analyzing Farm Layout and Farmstead Architecture

“…world view and the ramifications it had for material culture has been discussed by numerous historical archaeologists, most of whom have concentrated on the early colonial period in North America (e.g. Deetz 1977;Leone 1984). This process was still going on in the 19th century, and in fact continues today in many parts of the US, especially in isolated rural settlements far from the increasingly dominant urban centers.…”