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Interpreting the Early Modern WorldAn American Landscape Conversation

Interpreting the Early Modern World: An American Landscape Conversation [As interpretive landscape archaeologists, we practice a form of historical ethnography. We strive for holism and seek to decenter master narratives through attention to the multilocality of places and the multivocality histories must embrace. Interpretation implies revelation and insight, and so we view landscapes as resource, stages, and surfaces manipulated for aesthetic and other expressive ends. In this essay, we apply these landscape concepts to understand the estates, farms, gardens, and buildings of northern Delaware. In particular, we explored the present and pasts of two duPont estates, Mt. Cuba and Coverdale Farm.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Interpreting the Early Modern WorldAn American Landscape Conversation

Part of the Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology Book Series
Editors: Beaudry, Mary C.; Symonds, James
De Cunzo, Lu Ann; Moqtaderi, Nedda
Interpreting the Early Modern World — Sep 30, 2010
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Springer US
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
ISBN
978-0-387-70758-7
Pages
3 –23
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-70759-4_1
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Abstract

[As interpretive landscape archaeologists, we practice a form of historical ethnography. We strive for holism and seek to decenter master narratives through attention to the multilocality of places and the multivocality histories must embrace. Interpretation implies revelation and insight, and so we view landscapes as resource, stages, and surfaces manipulated for aesthetic and other expressive ends. In this essay, we apply these landscape concepts to understand the estates, farms, gardens, and buildings of northern Delaware. In particular, we explored the present and pasts of two duPont estates, Mt. Cuba and Coverdale Farm.]

Published: Sep 30, 2010

Keywords: Agricultural Landscape; Cultural Resource; Historical Archaeology; Master Narrative; Landscape Archaeology

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