Mary C Beaudry
Biographic Data
| ID | 132890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary C Beaudry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary C |
| FAMILY NAME | Beaudry |
| SIGNATURE | BEAUDRY M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 358 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 13 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies
Assemblages of practice. A conceptual framework for exploring human-thing relations in archaeology
In this paper we propose the conceptual framework of theassemblage of practiceas an effective middle-range heuristic tool that bridges deep theory and the data available to archaeologists. Our framework foregrounds vibrantthingsas opposed to staticobjects, and sympathetically articulates the current concepts ofentanglement,correspondenceandassemblage. To us anassemblage of practiceis a dynamic gathering of corresponding things entangled through s…
Findings: The Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing
Mary C. Beaudry mines archaeological findings of sewing and needlework to discover what these small traces of female experience reveal about the societies and cultures in which they were used. Beaudry’s geographical and chronological scope is broad: she examines sites in the United States and Great Britain, as well as Australia and Canada, and she ranges from the Middle Ages through the Industrial Revolution. The author describes the social and c…
Who resided in Ridanäs: A study of mobility on a Viking Age trading port in Gotland, Sweden
John L. Cotter Award in Historical Archaeology: Krysta Ryzewski
Arqueologías de la mobilidad: Cruzando los límites espaciales y temporales
En este artículo se delinea la historia de los enfoques arqueológicos sobre el movimiento y la movilidad y se discute la reciente aparición de un “nuevo paradigma de movilidades” en muchas disciplinas, incluyendo la arqueología, en el que los temas más frecuentemente explorados se centran en torno a redes, flujos, tierra natal, globalización, migración, colonialismo y colonización, arqueología multi-local, transiciones y transformaciones, y affor…
The material culture of the modern world
We discuss results of a content analysis of material culture articles in Post-Medieval Archaeology in the context of the development of historical archaeology as a discipline. We conclude that the journal remains an important outlet for detailed field reports, but in recent years, influenced by social and anthropological theories, the discipline has matured and articles have changed from antiquarian artefact presentations to contextualized materi…
Grand challenges for archaeology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Grand Challenges for Archaeology
This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question. The resulting 25 'grand challenges' focus on dynamic cultural processes and the operation of…
Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement
Feasting on Broken Glass: Making a Meal of Seeds, Bones, and Sherds
Drawing on various lines of evidence that provide insight into late 18th- and early 19th-century episodes of dining at the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm in Newbury, Massachusetts, I explore ways in which historical archaeologists can move from discussions of food and foodstuffs to explore menus, meals, and dining. I argue that by drawing together many lines of evidence—food remains such as bones, seeds, and shells; documentary sources; and ceramics,…
The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies introduces and reviews thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. Drawing together approaches from archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies, through twenty-eight specially-commissioned articles, the volume explores contemporary issues and debates in a series of themed sections. These themes covers areas such as disciplinary perspectives, mate…
Magical Things: On Fetishes, Commodities, and Computers
This article focuses on the concepts of magical things followed by fetishes, commodities, and then the modern world of computers. When do things become magical is a vital question which this article tries to answer. This article discusses the magical elements associated with various objects that we come across in our daily lives. It also focuses on the problematic aspect associated with magic and fetish. The understanding reached by the impossibi…
Material Histories
The term ‘material culture’ is often used by archaeologists as a non-specific way to refer to the artifacts or other concrete things left by past cultures. An archaeologist thus can be described as a person who studies the material culture of a past society. This article focuses on the idea of material histories. This idea as explored in this article has a dual sense. First, it underscores the ways in which material culture was bound up in how hi…
Material Culture in Folklife Studies
The essence of this article is material culture in folklife studies. The meaning of ‘material culture’ seems clear. According to archaeologist James Deetz, it included that sector of our physical environment that we modify through culturally determined behavior. Material culture reveals human intrusion into the environment. It is the way we imagine', he continues, ‘a distinction between nature and culture, and then rebuild nature to our desire, s…
Consumption
The main focus of this article is consumption. Consumption is a material social practice involving the utilization of objects, as opposed to their production or distribution. Some scholars, who argue for the recent development of a distinctive ‘consumer society’ during the modern period, would define it even more specifically as the utilization of commodities, but this seems unnecessarily restrictive. Consumption was recognized as the social proc…
Materiality and Embodiment
The ideas of materiality and embodiment are explored in this article. It considers the contribution of archaeology to the interdisciplinary study of materiality and embodiment, focusing especially on the emergence of the archaeology of the body since the late 1980s. Human bodies have been a focus of archaeological study for a long time, with two divergent modes of analysis. What follows in this article is a review of some of the ways in which arc…
Ceramics (As Containers)
This article focuses on the importance of ceramics in material cultural studies. It proceeds to say that ceramics are considered a key feature of human material culture because of what they are taken to represent in economic, technological, and evolutionary terms. The innovation of taking the plastic medium of clay and marrying it with pyrotechnology to create irreversibly a resilient object — usually in the form of a container, has frequently be…
The Material‐Cultural Turn
The terms ‘material culture’ and ‘material culture studies’ emerged, one after another, during the twentieth century in the disciplines of archaeology and socio-cultural anthropology, and especially in the place of intersection between the two: anthropological archaeology. The purpose of this article, however, is to excavate the idea of ‘material culture studies’, rather than to bury it. Excavation examines the remains of the past in the present …
From Identity and Material Culture to Personhood and Materiality
The term ‘personhood’ refers to the state or condition of being a person. Studies of personhood investigate how persons emerge from specific ways of being in the world, and consider personhood and concepts of the person to be socially and culturally varied. This article explores the development of studies of personhood mainly in anthropology and archaeology in the context of previous and ongoing studies of identity and material culture. In so doi…
Gifts and Exchange
A gift contains within itself a part of its giver: 'to make a gift of something to someone is to make a present of some part of oneself'. This article traces the trajectories of debates in socio-cultural anthropology that have stemmed from Mauss' solution to the problem of reciprocity, with a view to stepping outside these trajectories. The first half of this article seeks to demonstrate that the succession of debates following Mauss' essay consi…
The Malice of Inanimate Objects
The concept of 'material agency' and the attendant concept of materiality has been widely adopted in the recent literature in archaeology and anthropology, yet its meaning has been widely misunderstood. Typical responses treat the concept as a step too far or as employed mainly for its shock value rather than for any higher intellectual purpose. This article argues that the perceived problems with the concept of material agency in archaeology and…
Efficient markerless gene replacement in Corynebacterium glutamicum using a new temperature-sensitive plasmid
Random chemical mutation of a Corynebacterium glutamicum-Escherichia coli shuttle vector derived from plasmid pCGR2 was done using hydroxylamine. It brought about amino acid substitutions G109D and E180K within the replicase superfamily domain of the plasmid's RepA protein and rendered the plasmid highly unstable, especially at higher incubation temperatures. Colony formation of C. glutamicum was consequently completely inhibited at 37°C but not …
Stitching Women’s Lives: Interpreting the Artifacts of Sewing and Needlework
Poverty in Depth: A New Dialogue
Grand Challenges for Archaeology
This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question. The resulting 25 'grand challenges' focus on dynamic cultural processes and the operation of…
The Lowell Boott Mills complex and its housing: Material expressions of corporate ideology
A vessel typology for early Chesapeake ceramics: The Potomac Typological System
Assemblages of practice. A conceptual framework for exploring human-thing relations in archaeology
In this paper we propose the conceptual framework of theassemblage of practiceas an effective middle-range heuristic tool that bridges deep theory and the data available to archaeologists. Our framework foregrounds vibrantthingsas opposed to staticobjects, and sympathetically articulates the current concepts ofentanglement,correspondenceandassemblage. To us anassemblage of practiceis a dynamic gathering of corresponding things entangled through s…
From Identity and Material Culture to Personhood and Materiality
The term ‘personhood’ refers to the state or condition of being a person. Studies of personhood investigate how persons emerge from specific ways of being in the world, and consider personhood and concepts of the person to be socially and culturally varied. This article explores the development of studies of personhood mainly in anthropology and archaeology in the context of previous and ongoing studies of identity and material culture. In so doi…
Public aesthetics versus personal experience: Worker health and well-being in 19th-century Lowell, Massachusetts
The Material‐Cultural Turn
The terms ‘material culture’ and ‘material culture studies’ emerged, one after another, during the twentieth century in the disciplines of archaeology and socio-cultural anthropology, and especially in the place of intersection between the two: anthropological archaeology. The purpose of this article, however, is to excavate the idea of ‘material culture studies’, rather than to bury it. Excavation examines the remains of the past in the present …
The Malice of Inanimate Objects
The concept of 'material agency' and the attendant concept of materiality has been widely adopted in the recent literature in archaeology and anthropology, yet its meaning has been widely misunderstood. Typical responses treat the concept as a step too far or as employed mainly for its shock value rather than for any higher intellectual purpose. This article argues that the perceived problems with the concept of material agency in archaeology and…
Ethnicity and the American Cemetery
Cemeteries are open cultural texts, available to be read and appreciated by anyone who takes the time to learn their special language. Ethnicity and the American Cemetery explores the manner in which ethnic groups in America have made their cemeteries a most eloquent voice for the expression of values and worldviews. Contributors examine the material objects found within the cemeteries, as well as the customary practices bound to them. Contributo…
Living on the Boott: Health and well being in a boardinghouse population
Documentary and archaeological evidence provides a view of conditions of sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition under the boarding house system in Lowell, Massachusetts. The evidence is sometimes complementary but more often contradictory. Archaeological evidence, for example, reveals that public expression of corporate concern for worker welfare often failed to be followed by actions that would improve living conditions in the boarding houses. The a…
The archaeology of historical land use in Massachusetts
The Meanings of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression
review. The present volume is more in the way of a reviewer's nightmare, and the responsibility lies with Hodder for deliberately eschewing the conventional role of editor, his aim being to alert the reader to the power of text and, perhaps more important, to the power of editors in controlling the presentation of text. Hodder's device for achieving this end is simple enough; he took the logical structure of the text-Chapters 1 through 25, with i…
Feasting on Broken Glass: Making a Meal of Seeds, Bones, and Sherds
Drawing on various lines of evidence that provide insight into late 18th- and early 19th-century episodes of dining at the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm in Newbury, Massachusetts, I explore ways in which historical archaeologists can move from discussions of food and foodstuffs to explore menus, meals, and dining. I argue that by drawing together many lines of evidence—food remains such as bones, seeds, and shells; documentary sources; and ceramics,…
Farm Journal: First person, four voices
Materiality and Embodiment
The ideas of materiality and embodiment are explored in this article. It considers the contribution of archaeology to the interdisciplinary study of materiality and embodiment, focusing especially on the emergence of the archaeology of the body since the late 1980s. Human bodies have been a focus of archaeological study for a long time, with two divergent modes of analysis. What follows in this article is a review of some of the ways in which arc…
Scratching the Surface: Seven Seasons at the Spencer-Pierce-Little Farm, Newbury, Massachusetts
Results of excavations conducted between 1986 and 1994 at the Spencer-Pierce-Little farm, Newbury, Massachusetts, are summarized and evaluated in light of the research questions that have guided the project to date. Under continuous occupation and cultivation from 1635 to the present, the site has that potential to contribute to many topics of interest to historical archaeologists working in New England and elsewhere, including questions about id…
Trying to Think Progressively About 19th-Century Farms
Recent excavations at a 19th-century estate manager's farm at Milton, South Uist, in the Western Isles of Scotland, prompt comparison with New England farms of the same era. Of particular interest is the material signature of the move toward "progressive farming" manifested through the construction of model farms and the introduction of industrially-inspired farm management practices and technological innovations. Comparisons drawn between the He…
Who resided in Ridanäs: A study of mobility on a Viking Age trading port in Gotland, Sweden
Ceramics (As Containers)
This article focuses on the importance of ceramics in material cultural studies. It proceeds to say that ceramics are considered a key feature of human material culture because of what they are taken to represent in economic, technological, and evolutionary terms. The innovation of taking the plastic medium of clay and marrying it with pyrotechnology to create irreversibly a resilient object — usually in the form of a container, has frequently be…
Artefatos e vozes ativas: Cultura Material Como Discurso Social
Um tema comum que conecta as interpretações do registro material do passado dizrespeito às formas como as pessoas se envolvem com o mundo material em uma dada expressão cultural e nas suas negociações da vida cotidiana. A relação entre comportamento e mundo material está longe de ser passiva. Os artefatos são encarnações tangíveis das relações sociais, incorporando atitudes e comportamentos do passado
Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and the Chesapeake
Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and the Chesapeake. Martin Hall. New York: Routledge, 2000. 218 pp
The material culture of the modern world
We discuss results of a content analysis of material culture articles in Post-Medieval Archaeology in the context of the development of historical archaeology as a discipline. We conclude that the journal remains an important outlet for detailed field reports, but in recent years, influenced by social and anthropological theories, the discipline has matured and articles have changed from antiquarian artefact presentations to contextualized materi…
Material Histories
The term ‘material culture’ is often used by archaeologists as a non-specific way to refer to the artifacts or other concrete things left by past cultures. An archaeologist thus can be described as a person who studies the material culture of a past society. This article focuses on the idea of material histories. This idea as explored in this article has a dual sense. First, it underscores the ways in which material culture was bound up in how hi…
Gifts and Exchange
A gift contains within itself a part of its giver: 'to make a gift of something to someone is to make a present of some part of oneself'. This article traces the trajectories of debates in socio-cultural anthropology that have stemmed from Mauss' solution to the problem of reciprocity, with a view to stepping outside these trajectories. The first half of this article seeks to demonstrate that the succession of debates following Mauss' essay consi…
Consumption
The main focus of this article is consumption. Consumption is a material social practice involving the utilization of objects, as opposed to their production or distribution. Some scholars, who argue for the recent development of a distinctive ‘consumer society’ during the modern period, would define it even more specifically as the utilization of commodities, but this seems unnecessarily restrictive. Consumption was recognized as the social proc…
A vessel typology for early Chesapeake ceramics: The Potomac Typological System
The archaeology of historical land use in Massachusetts
A Seventeenth-Century Delftware Figurine From Landfill in Boston, Massachusetts
The Lowell Boott Mills complex and its housing: Material expressions of corporate ideology
Living on the Boott: Health and well being in a boardinghouse population
Documentary and archaeological evidence provides a view of conditions of sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition under the boarding house system in Lowell, Massachusetts. The evidence is sometimes complementary but more often contradictory. Archaeological evidence, for example, reveals that public expression of corporate concern for worker welfare often failed to be followed by actions that would improve living conditions in the boarding houses. The a…
Pollen analysis and urban land use: The environs of Scottow’s Dock in 17th, 18th, and early 19th century Boston
The Meanings of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression
review. The present volume is more in the way of a reviewer's nightmare, and the responsibility lies with Hodder for deliberately eschewing the conventional role of editor, his aim being to alert the reader to the power of text and, perhaps more important, to the power of editors in controlling the presentation of text. Hodder's device for achieving this end is simple enough; he took the logical structure of the text-Chapters 1 through 25, with i…
The Politics of the Past. Peter Gathercole and David Lowenthal
Public aesthetics versus personal experience: Worker health and well-being in 19th-century Lowell, Massachusetts
Wharram Percy: Deserted Medieval Village
Ethnicity and the American Cemetery
Cemeteries are open cultural texts, available to be read and appreciated by anyone who takes the time to learn their special language. Ethnicity and the American Cemetery explores the manner in which ethnic groups in America have made their cemeteries a most eloquent voice for the expression of values and worldviews. Contributors examine the material objects found within the cemeteries, as well as the customary practices bound to them. Contributo…
A Village of Outcasts: Historical Archaeology and Documentary Research at the Lighthouse Site . Kenneth L. Feder
Women Historical Archeologists: Who's Counting
Scratching the Surface: Seven Seasons at the Spencer-Pierce-Little Farm, Newbury, Massachusetts
Results of excavations conducted between 1986 and 1994 at the Spencer-Pierce-Little farm, Newbury, Massachusetts, are summarized and evaluated in light of the research questions that have guided the project to date. Under continuous occupation and cultivation from 1635 to the present, the site has that potential to contribute to many topics of interest to historical archaeologists working in New England and elsewhere, including questions about id…
Coming of age? historical archaeology of the Chesapeake
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Farm Journal: First person, four voices
The Pequot War
Trying to Think Progressively About 19th-Century Farms
Recent excavations at a 19th-century estate manager's farm at Milton, South Uist, in the Western Isles of Scotland, prompt comparison with New England farms of the same era. Of particular interest is the material signature of the move toward "progressive farming" manifested through the construction of model farms and the introduction of industrially-inspired farm management practices and technological innovations. Comparisons drawn between the He…
Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and the Chesapeake
Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and the Chesapeake. Martin Hall. New York: Routledge, 2000. 218 pp
James Deetz (1930-2000)
Concluding Comments
Artefatos e vozes ativas: Cultura Material Como Discurso Social
Um tema comum que conecta as interpretações do registro material do passado dizrespeito às formas como as pessoas se envolvem com o mundo material em uma dada expressão cultural e nas suas negociações da vida cotidiana. A relação entre comportamento e mundo material está longe de ser passiva. Os artefatos são encarnações tangíveis das relações sociais, incorporando atitudes e comportamentos do passado
Ethical Issues in Historical Archaeology
Artifacts and Personal Identity
Bodkin Biographies
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