Mark W Hauser
Biographic Data
| ID | 459284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark W Hauser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark W |
| FAMILY NAME | Hauser |
| SIGNATURE | HAUSER M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7241-1739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 225 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Things in a Landscape. Douglas Armstrong, Material Culture and the Domestic Economy
Drawing on archaeological investigations in Jamaica and Martinique, the article revisist two complimentary studies: the production and circulation of local coarse earthenware and the provisioning practices of enslaved households. While these materials differ, both illuminate the domestic economy as a multi-scalar system linking households, plantations, island markets, and global economies. Documentary sources, colonial laws, and travel accounts d…
Recovering a substantive landscape of mobility
Woody Resources as a Medium for Colonial Engagement: Explaining the Artifactual and Architectural Record at La Soye, Dominica
Wood and other tree byproducts were significant commodities in contexts of early colonial economies, but few archaeological studies focus on these resources. This article presents historical and archaeological evidence of the exploitation of woody resources for the purpose of naval stores and export at the site of La Soye, Dominica, Eastern Caribbean, beginning in the 1580s and continuing until the first quarter of the eighteenth century. This re…
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past
Discussions of boundaries have enjoyed a renaissance in anthropological archaeology of recent years, especially as conversations surrounding forced migration and border walls look toward the material record for clarification about what borders are and what they do. Since 1995, when the Annual Review of Anthropology last addressed a similar issue, numerous methodological and conceptual changes in the field have led to a large proliferation in the …
Gardens of the Coromandel Coast: Landscape Considerations of Commercial Agriculture in Tamil Nadu, South India
Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery, by Grace Turner
Where strangers met: Evidence for early commerce at LaSoye Point, Dominica
Concluding Thoughts
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
The Political Ecology of Plantations from the Ground Up
Little work has been done to examine the political ecology and environmental legacy of sugar colonies in the Caribbean. Material excavated from the Morne Patate plantation in southern Dominica occupied from the late seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century offer a perfect opportunity to examine the intersections between Caribbean colonial enterprises and the domestic economises of enslaved households. Analysis of macrobotanical remains associated wi…
Cotton estates and cotton craft production in the colonial-era Caribbean: Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity
In this chapter, the authors place two spindle whorls, recovered within deposits associated with enslaved African laborers at Bois Cotlette in Dominica, in the context of indigenous and historic cotton production and use in the Caribbean. The authors suggest that enslaved and free blacks produced crafts that served basic needs, such as hammocks, fishing line, netting, and specialized cloth, fulfilled consumers' desires and needs, and shaped emerg…
Slavery behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation, written by Theresa A. Singleton
A Political Ecology of Water and Enslavement: Water Ways in Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Plantations
Recent headlines about Michigan, California, and India have disabused a public conventional wisdom that water is free of charge. Cases such as these, where human needs directly compete with institutional forces, are not new. Water, as a substance essential to production and reproduction in eighteenth-century Caribbean plantations, created a predicament, the resolution of which was unevenly borne by human beings held as slaves. Building on Barbara…
Toward a South Asian Historical Archaeology
Sugar Economics: A Visual Economy of the Plantation Landscape in Colonial Dominica
The Infrastructure of Nature’s Island: Settlements, Networks and Economy of Two Plantations in Colonial Dominica
Risky business: Rice and inter-colonial dependencies in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans
In this paper we are concerned with some issues of inter-colonial dependency, especially in food and with a focus on rice that both directly linked the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds and that highlight some structural issues of colonialism, globalization, and food security more generally. This paper examines rice as a staple commodity, one that both reflected and generated inter-colonial dependencies in both ocean worlds, and how that dependenc…
Land, Labor, and Things: Surplus in a New West Indian Colony (1763–1807)
Surplus becomes a very interesting word when one considers slavery in the Caribbean. By asking the question how did people on the ground make surplus, we get a lot clearer picture of how slavery actually worked. Famous for the wealth of the planting class, the high mortality rates and low fertility rates of enslaved laborers, the complicated system of provisioning put in place to meet crises in population subsistence, plantation society in the Br…
Teaching with Digital Archaeological Data: A Research Archive in the University Classroom
The archaeology of not being governed: A counterpoint to a history of settlement of two colonies in the eastern Caribbean
In this article we examine the role of informal settlements inhabited by Europeans, Africans and, potentially, indigenous people in the eighteenth-century insular Caribbean. Rather than simply being frontier settlements established in anticipation of formal colonization, in many cases settlements on and beyond the margins of colonies represent alternative possibilities and facilitate ways of life, modes of production, and means of trade and excha…
Messy Data, Ordered Questions
A lively debate was witnessed in 2011 about the role of deductive and interpretive approaches in the production of anthropological knowledge, especially as it relates to archaeology. Scholarly output in archaeology this year reflects this concern. First, there is a trend toward furthering our archaeological imagination-finding new ways of asking questions that link the most empirical of research projects with innovative social theory. Second, the…
Uneven Topographies: Archaeology of Plantations and Caribbean Slave Economies
Routes and Roots of Empire: Pots, Power, and Slavery in the 18th-Century British Caribbean
I draw on research from Jamaica and Dominica to track economic networks through analysis of ceramic assemblages from house yards of enslaved laborers. Ceramics produced in Europe and used by colonial subjects have been used to reinforce narratives in which empires jealously guarded mercantile trade regimes. The presence of local coarse earthenware made and used by people of African extraction allows an analysis of more localized networks-some of …
From Santa Elena to St. Augustine: Indigenous Ceramic Variability (A.D. 1400–1700)
A Sea of Diversity: Historical Archaeology in the Caribbean
Low-Fired Earthenwares in the African Diaspora: Problems and Prospects
Routes and Roots of Empire: Pots, Power, and Slavery in the 18th-Century British Caribbean
I draw on research from Jamaica and Dominica to track economic networks through analysis of ceramic assemblages from house yards of enslaved laborers. Ceramics produced in Europe and used by colonial subjects have been used to reinforce narratives in which empires jealously guarded mercantile trade regimes. The presence of local coarse earthenware made and used by people of African extraction allows an analysis of more localized networks-some of …
The archaeology of not being governed: A counterpoint to a history of settlement of two colonies in the eastern Caribbean
In this article we examine the role of informal settlements inhabited by Europeans, Africans and, potentially, indigenous people in the eighteenth-century insular Caribbean. Rather than simply being frontier settlements established in anticipation of formal colonization, in many cases settlements on and beyond the margins of colonies represent alternative possibilities and facilitate ways of life, modes of production, and means of trade and excha…
A Political Ecology of Water and Enslavement: Water Ways in Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Plantations
Recent headlines about Michigan, California, and India have disabused a public conventional wisdom that water is free of charge. Cases such as these, where human needs directly compete with institutional forces, are not new. Water, as a substance essential to production and reproduction in eighteenth-century Caribbean plantations, created a predicament, the resolution of which was unevenly borne by human beings held as slaves. Building on Barbara…
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Variation in Venues of Slavery and Freedom: Interpreting the Late Eighteenth-Century Cultural Landscape of St. John, Danish West Indies Using an Archaeological GIS
The Infrastructure of Nature’s Island: Settlements, Networks and Economy of Two Plantations in Colonial Dominica
Scale Locality and the Caribbean Historical Archaeology
An East Indian Laborers’ Household in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica: A Case for Understanding Cultural Diversity through Space, Chronology, and Material Analysis
Messy Data, Ordered Questions
A lively debate was witnessed in 2011 about the role of deductive and interpretive approaches in the production of anthropological knowledge, especially as it relates to archaeology. Scholarly output in archaeology this year reflects this concern. First, there is a trend toward furthering our archaeological imagination-finding new ways of asking questions that link the most empirical of research projects with innovative social theory. Second, the…
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past
Discussions of boundaries have enjoyed a renaissance in anthropological archaeology of recent years, especially as conversations surrounding forced migration and border walls look toward the material record for clarification about what borders are and what they do. Since 1995, when the Annual Review of Anthropology last addressed a similar issue, numerous methodological and conceptual changes in the field have led to a large proliferation in the …
The Political Ecology of Plantations from the Ground Up
Little work has been done to examine the political ecology and environmental legacy of sugar colonies in the Caribbean. Material excavated from the Morne Patate plantation in southern Dominica occupied from the late seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century offer a perfect opportunity to examine the intersections between Caribbean colonial enterprises and the domestic economises of enslaved households. Analysis of macrobotanical remains associated wi…
Toward a South Asian Historical Archaeology
Risky business: Rice and inter-colonial dependencies in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans
In this paper we are concerned with some issues of inter-colonial dependency, especially in food and with a focus on rice that both directly linked the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds and that highlight some structural issues of colonialism, globalization, and food security more generally. This paper examines rice as a staple commodity, one that both reflected and generated inter-colonial dependencies in both ocean worlds, and how that dependenc…
Teaching with Digital Archaeological Data: A Research Archive in the University Classroom
Concluding Thoughts
From Santa Elena to St. Augustine: Indigenous Ceramic Variability (A.D. 1400–1700)
Where strangers met: Evidence for early commerce at LaSoye Point, Dominica
Cotton estates and cotton craft production in the colonial-era Caribbean: Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity
In this chapter, the authors place two spindle whorls, recovered within deposits associated with enslaved African laborers at Bois Cotlette in Dominica, in the context of indigenous and historic cotton production and use in the Caribbean. The authors suggest that enslaved and free blacks produced crafts that served basic needs, such as hammocks, fishing line, netting, and specialized cloth, fulfilled consumers' desires and needs, and shaped emerg…
Linstead Market before Linstead? Eighteenth-century Yabbas and the Internal Market System of Jamaica
Introduction The role of Linstead market in the internal economy of post-emancipation Jamaica has been the subject of numerous popular and academic discussions. Indeed there is ample documentary evidence that points to its existence at least as early as the 1 840s. Any arguments regarding its existence in the eighteenth century at this point is speculation based on models of economic necessity, our understanding of the organization of enslaved la…
Low-Fired Earthenwares in the African Diaspora: Problems and Prospects
An East Indian Laborers’ Household in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica: A Case for Understanding Cultural Diversity through Space, Chronology, and Material Analysis
Scale Locality and the Caribbean Historical Archaeology
Variation in Venues of Slavery and Freedom: Interpreting the Late Eighteenth-Century Cultural Landscape of St. John, Danish West Indies Using an Archaeological GIS
A Sea of Diversity: Historical Archaeology in the Caribbean
Linstead Market before Linstead? Eighteenth-century Yabbas and the Internal Market System of Jamaica
Introduction The role of Linstead market in the internal economy of post-emancipation Jamaica has been the subject of numerous popular and academic discussions. Indeed there is ample documentary evidence that points to its existence at least as early as the 1 840s. Any arguments regarding its existence in the eighteenth century at this point is speculation based on models of economic necessity, our understanding of the organization of enslaved la…
From Santa Elena to St. Augustine: Indigenous Ceramic Variability (A.D. 1400–1700)
Uneven Topographies: Archaeology of Plantations and Caribbean Slave Economies
Routes and Roots of Empire: Pots, Power, and Slavery in the 18th-Century British Caribbean
I draw on research from Jamaica and Dominica to track economic networks through analysis of ceramic assemblages from house yards of enslaved laborers. Ceramics produced in Europe and used by colonial subjects have been used to reinforce narratives in which empires jealously guarded mercantile trade regimes. The presence of local coarse earthenware made and used by people of African extraction allows an analysis of more localized networks-some of …
The archaeology of not being governed: A counterpoint to a history of settlement of two colonies in the eastern Caribbean
In this article we examine the role of informal settlements inhabited by Europeans, Africans and, potentially, indigenous people in the eighteenth-century insular Caribbean. Rather than simply being frontier settlements established in anticipation of formal colonization, in many cases settlements on and beyond the margins of colonies represent alternative possibilities and facilitate ways of life, modes of production, and means of trade and excha…
Messy Data, Ordered Questions
A lively debate was witnessed in 2011 about the role of deductive and interpretive approaches in the production of anthropological knowledge, especially as it relates to archaeology. Scholarly output in archaeology this year reflects this concern. First, there is a trend toward furthering our archaeological imagination-finding new ways of asking questions that link the most empirical of research projects with innovative social theory. Second, the…
Teaching with Digital Archaeological Data: A Research Archive in the University Classroom
Land, Labor, and Things: Surplus in a New West Indian Colony (1763–1807)
Surplus becomes a very interesting word when one considers slavery in the Caribbean. By asking the question how did people on the ground make surplus, we get a lot clearer picture of how slavery actually worked. Famous for the wealth of the planting class, the high mortality rates and low fertility rates of enslaved laborers, the complicated system of provisioning put in place to meet crises in population subsistence, plantation society in the Br…
Sugar Economics: A Visual Economy of the Plantation Landscape in Colonial Dominica
The Infrastructure of Nature’s Island: Settlements, Networks and Economy of Two Plantations in Colonial Dominica
Risky business: Rice and inter-colonial dependencies in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans
In this paper we are concerned with some issues of inter-colonial dependency, especially in food and with a focus on rice that both directly linked the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds and that highlight some structural issues of colonialism, globalization, and food security more generally. This paper examines rice as a staple commodity, one that both reflected and generated inter-colonial dependencies in both ocean worlds, and how that dependenc…
Toward a South Asian Historical Archaeology
The Political Ecology of Plantations from the Ground Up
Little work has been done to examine the political ecology and environmental legacy of sugar colonies in the Caribbean. Material excavated from the Morne Patate plantation in southern Dominica occupied from the late seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century offer a perfect opportunity to examine the intersections between Caribbean colonial enterprises and the domestic economises of enslaved households. Analysis of macrobotanical remains associated wi…
Cotton estates and cotton craft production in the colonial-era Caribbean: Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity
In this chapter, the authors place two spindle whorls, recovered within deposits associated with enslaved African laborers at Bois Cotlette in Dominica, in the context of indigenous and historic cotton production and use in the Caribbean. The authors suggest that enslaved and free blacks produced crafts that served basic needs, such as hammocks, fishing line, netting, and specialized cloth, fulfilled consumers' desires and needs, and shaped emerg…
Slavery behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation, written by Theresa A. Singleton
A Political Ecology of Water and Enslavement: Water Ways in Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Plantations
Recent headlines about Michigan, California, and India have disabused a public conventional wisdom that water is free of charge. Cases such as these, where human needs directly compete with institutional forces, are not new. Water, as a substance essential to production and reproduction in eighteenth-century Caribbean plantations, created a predicament, the resolution of which was unevenly borne by human beings held as slaves. Building on Barbara…
Concluding Thoughts
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery, by Grace Turner
Where strangers met: Evidence for early commerce at LaSoye Point, Dominica
Archaeology (24 works) · History (21 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (20 works) · Geography (18 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (17 works) · History (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Colonialism (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works)