Mark P Leone
Biographic Data
| ID | 84588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark P Leone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark P |
| FAMILY NAME | Leone |
| SIGNATURE | LEONE M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 91 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1011 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
North American Conjure and Hoodoo and Archaeology
Joseph and Lucy Smith's Tunbridge Farm: An Archaeology and Landscape Study
joseph and lucy smith's tunbridge farm by Mark L. Staker and Donald L. Enders is a chapter in a Latter-day Saint Book of Hours (a meditative guide to be read throughout the day filled with prayers meant to focus on guidance from God). Staker and Enders's volume uses archaeology and landscape to ponder a moment in God's intervention in the course of human life. The authors are ordinary, honest archaeologists digging at a founding and farming site …
El Nuevo Templo Mormón en Washington, D. C
Este articulo tiene como objetivo discutir arqueológicamente la Catedral Mormona de Washington, construida por la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días, en el condado de Montgomery, Maryland, Distrito de Columbia. Esta peculiar y sorprendente construcción refleja a través de su materialidad las aspiraciones e ideales mormones, que por su vez son exhibidos para el resto de la nación. A partir de un análisis estructural de su arqu…
Una arqueología histórica del capitalismo
Este artículo se propone discutir el potencial de entender la Arqueología Histórica a la luz de la teoría critica, pensándola como una arqueología del capitalismo. Esta conjunción de ideas permitirá al arqueólogo la construcción de nuevas narrativas criticas sobre las historias oficiales y sus silencios en relación con los grupos subalternos. La neutralidad científica tiene que ser cuestionada para poder pensar la dimensión política de la arqueol…
Rumo a uma Arqueologia Crítica
A Teoria Crítica - que se caracteriza essencialmente por um esforço para explorar e aumentar as percepções de Marx sobre a natureza do conhecimento da sociedade humana - vem sendo crescentemente aplicada às Ciências Humanas. Os arqueólogos são convidados a considerar a Teoria Crítica pela evidência de que a Arqueologia, em alguns ambientes, é usada para fins políticos, e pela crescente controvérsia sobre a propriedade e o controle de remanescente…
El Orden Georgiano como el orden del capitalismo mercantil en Annapolis, Maryland
Este articulo discute como los cambios en las formas de pensar en Nueva Inglaterra entre los siglos XVIII y XIX, tuvieron reflejo en las condiciones materiales de vida, partiendo del análisis de los planteos de Henry Glassie (1975) sobre las casas tradicionales y de James Deetz (1977) sobre la cultura material, del llamado Georgian Order
Interpretando la ideología en la Arqueología Histórica: Usando las reglas de la perspectiva en el jardín de William Paca en Annápolis, Maryland
Este capítulo se centra en la manera en que las representaciones ideológicamente modeladas sirven para naturalizar el carácter arbitrario del orden social. En él se muestra cómo la construcción de un jardín del siglo dieciocho empleaba una serie de medios para este fin. A través del uso de citas clásicas y del desarrollo de una determinada concepción de precedentes con asociaciones jurídicas, el jardín representa una determinada racionalización d…
La Arqueología de la Comunidad Negra Estadounidense en tiempos recientes
Se realiza una revisión de trabajos arqueológicos sobre afro-americanos según estudios de la diáspora y basados en la literatura que define la experiencia negra en Norteamérica. La atención se centra en el establecimiento de la libertad mediante la fundación de comunidades de esclavos fugitivos y asentamientos independientes de personas libres, así como en el uso e interpretación de la historia y teoría de la diáspora africana, en particular por …
Local Discourses in Archaeology
Annapolis: Historical Archaeology
Critical Theory in Archaeology
The Problem: Religion within the World of Slaves
A spirit bundle from Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland, is described and interpreted as a function of the Afro-Christianity created during and after the Atlantic slave trade. The bundle is made up mostly of worn shoes and boots; it dates to after Emancipation and was discovered in the 1990s. This interpretation attempts to use the Slave Narratives of the 1930s to understand the meaning of the bundle. The imminence of the supernatural in the bund…
Archaeology as the Science of Technology: Mormon Town Plans and Fences
Preliminary judgments offered in New Perspectives in Archaeology indicate happiness with the potential transformation archaeology is capable of, but some doubt about whether it can ever really be achieved. Considering the state of the history of technology and the unconscious state of archaeology, neither discipline is concerned with how technology affects culture and how technology is manipulated by culture. Historians of technology have been co…
How Can There Be No History
J. C. Harrington Medal in Historical Archaeology: Charles E. Orser, Jr
Local Discourses in Archaeology
Critical Theory in Archaeology
Annapolis: Historical Archaeology
The Archaeology of Early African American Communities in Talbot County, Eastern Shore, Maryland, U.S.A., and Their Relationship to Slavery
Waste
Critical Theory was first used in historical archaeology in the 1980s as a way of commenting upon the ideological character of modern global capitalism. At the time, neither the work of Walter Benjamin nor Slavoj Žižek were integrated into archaeology. Their work can be combined to form a complementary understanding of rapid consumption and disposal in modern culture, forming a new basis for excavation in historical archaeology. Benjamin concentr…
Critical Historical Archaeology
How can we use the past to make sense of the issues and problems that concern us in the present? Mark Leone, the leading critical theorist in historical archaeology, urges archaeologists to view their discipline as an activist pursuit. This volume is partly his autobiographical reflection on a thirty five year career, part a collection of Leone's classic writings on Annapolis, Williamsburg, Shakertown, St. Mary's, and other key sites, and part a …
In the shade of Frederick Douglass
Religious Movements in Contemporary America
Archaeology of Telling Time: Plants and the Greenhouse at Wye House Plantation
Introduction to Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, Second Edition
Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
A Historical Archaeology of Capitalism
Practitioners of historical archaeology can define the impact of ideology (as in Althusser) and disciplines of the self (as in Foucault), thus contributing to the study of capitalism in local historical situations. In describing the origins of modern conditions of exploitation, archaeologists can help to educate those exploited. In the Chesapeake region, historical archaeology has been used to create a more direct tie with the present than is usu…
The recovery of meaning: Historical archaeology in the eastern United States
Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism
The Archaeology of Liberty in an American CapitalExcavations in Annapolis: Excavations in Annapolis
What do archaeological excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, reveal about daily life in the city's history? Considering artifacts such as ceramics, spirit bundles, printer's type, and landscapes, this study illuminates the lives of the city's residents—walking, seeing, reading, talking, eating, and living together in freedom and in oppression for more than three hundred years. Interpreting the results of one of the most innovative projects in Ameri…
The Archaeology of Black Americans in Recent Times
A review of work on African Americans through archaeology takes place under diasporic studies and relies on literature that defines the North American black experience. The focus is on the establishment of freedom by the founding of maroon communities and independent settlements of free people, as well as on the use and interpretation of African diasporic history and theory, particularly by archaeologists using knowledge of the diaspora to effect…
Conjuring in the Big House Kitchen: An Interpretation of African American Belief Systems Based on the Uses of Archaeology and Folklore Sources
Joining archaeological and folkloristic methods, the authors compare the archaeological remains of African religious practices found in Virginia sites from the 18th and 19th centuries with historical data on conjuring and divining. The contents of diviners' bundles buried beneath hearths and sills and in northeast corners are presented from Virginia sites occupied by enslaved Africans and free African Americans. Those bundles are contextualized u…
Contemporary archaeology; a guide to theory and contributions.
Hidden in view: African spiritual spaces in North American landscapes
How did enslaved African people in North America use material culture to create and signal their own identity? In a paper that has much significance for many other periods and places, the authors draw on archaeological and documentary evidence to show how African spiritual spaces were created in houses and gardens in the form of coded landscapes that were often hidden - though in view
The political economy of archaeological cultures: Marxism and American historical archaeology
The application of Marxist theory in American historical archaeology has expanded greatly over the past 20 years. More than just a theoretical tool, the rise of Marxism reflects an emerging consciousness within historical archaeology that its subject matter is capitalism, an interest obviously shared with Marx himself. We propose, however, that historical archaeology has proceeded to study the emergence of the modern culture of capitalism without…
Some Opinions about Recovering Mind
Archaeologists have tried to reconstruct patterns of thought, meaning, and ideas, using theories of structuralism, cognition, and ideology. Case studies involving each of the theories are described, and the strengths and weakness of their application to archaeological data are presented. Structuralism is found to yield substantial examples with well-worked treatments of archaeological data. These examples tend to ignore economic context, however.…
Seeing: The power of town planning in the Chesapeake
The relationship between archaeological data and the documentary record: 18Th century gardens in Annapolis, Maryland
Critical Historical Archaeology
How can we use the past to make sense of the issues and problems that concern us in the present? Mark Leone, the leading critical theorist in historical archaeology, urges archaeologists to view their discipline as an activist pursuit. This volume is partly his autobiographical reflection on a thirty five year career, part a collection of Leone's classic writings on Annapolis, Williamsburg, Shakertown, St. Mary's, and other key sites, and part a …
LiDAR for Archaeological Landscape Analysis: A Case Study of Two Eighteenth-Century Maryland Plantation Sites
Topographic and image maps of archaeological landscapes can be made using airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data. Such maps contain more three-dimensional data than conventional maps and may be more spatially accurate. In addition to providing a record of topography, LiDAR images may reveal surface indications of archaeological deposits unnoticed when using more conventional discovery techniques. LiDAR data and derived imagery need to …
Legitimation and the Classification of Archaeological Sites
A good deal of archaeology is conducted within the context of historic preservation, which means that many American archaeologists are faced with the issue of determining site significance. In this essay, we turn to critical theory as a way of complementing the positivist basis for determining site significance. Among the critical theorists, Jurgen Habermas offers a way of examining and understanding a connection between knowledge about the past …
Perspective and Surveillance in Eighteenth-Century Maryland Gardens, Including William Paca’s Garden on Wye Island
The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg
The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. Richard Handler and Eric Gable. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.260 pp
Interpretation of Historic Sites
Interpretation of Historic Sites offers essential knowledge on how to develop and conduct interpretive programs for every historic site, regardless of size or budget
Descriptive Statements, Covering Laws, and Theories in Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
The paradigm for explanation in archaeology presented by the "new archaeologists" is reviewed and shown to need further elaboration. It is argued that that presentation has overemphasized the form of explanatory arguments and insufficiently considered their content. Not all explanatory arguments provide intuitively satisfactory explanations of particular observations. Instead, intuitively satisfactory explanations require general theories which s…
The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
On Texts and Their Interpretation
The Problem: Religion within the World of Slaves
A spirit bundle from Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland, is described and interpreted as a function of the Afro-Christianity created during and after the Atlantic slave trade. The bundle is made up mostly of worn shoes and boots; it dates to after Emancipation and was discovered in the 1990s. This interpretation attempts to use the Slave Narratives of the 1930s to understand the meaning of the bundle. The imminence of the supernatural in the bund…
Archaeological Thought in America
Dominance and Resistance
Archeology: Excavations at Pot Creek Pueblo. Ronald D. Wetherington. Foreword by Fred Wendorf: An Archaeological‐Geographical Survey of the Rio Grande de Ranches [Herold]. Site TA 32: A Deep Pit House…
Modern American Culture the Decline of the Future
Eskimo Prehistory
Contemporary archaeology; a guide to theory and contributions.
The Sun Dance Religion: Power for the Powerless
Views of traditional archaeology
Gordon R. Willey, ed. Archaeological Researches in Retrospect. Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers, 1974. xix + 296 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, and glossary. $9.95 (cloth), $5.95 (paper). Gordon R. Willey and Jeremy A. Sabloff. A History of American Archaeology. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1974. xix + 252 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, bibliography, and index. $4.95 (paper)
Mesoamerica: Mystery of the Maya
Religious Movements in Contemporary America
Descriptive Statements, Covering Laws, and Theories in Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
The paradigm for explanation in archaeology presented by the "new archaeologists" is reviewed and shown to need further elaboration. It is argued that that presentation has overemphasized the form of explanatory arguments and insufficiently considered their content. Not all explanatory arguments provide intuitively satisfactory explanations of particular observations. Instead, intuitively satisfactory explanations require general theories which s…
On Texts and Their Interpretation
Time and Traditions
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Journal Article Roots of Modern Mormonism. By Mark P. Leone. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979. ix + 250 pp. Map, tables, appendix, works cited, and index. $15.00.) Get access F. Ross Peterson F. Ross Peterson Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 139–140, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900472 Published: 01 June 1980
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Archaeology: World Industrial Archaeology. Kenneth Hudson
Some Opinions about Recovering Mind
Archaeologists have tried to reconstruct patterns of thought, meaning, and ideas, using theories of structuralism, cognition, and ideology. Case studies involving each of the theories are described, and the strengths and weakness of their application to archaeological data are presented. Structuralism is found to yield substantial examples with well-worked treatments of archaeological data. These examples tend to ignore economic context, however.…
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century
Interpreting ideology in historical archaeology: The William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland
This chapter focuses on the manner in which ideologically informed representations serve to naturalise the arbitrary nature of the social order. The construction of an eighteenth-century garden is shown to employ a number of means towards this aim. Through the use of classical quotations and the development of a concept of precedence with juridical associations, the garden presents a particular rationalisation of time, which also denies its own t…
Epilogue
Natives and Newcomers: Canada's 'Heroic Age' Reconsidered
Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
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