Mark P. Leone & Parker B. Potter, Jr. (ed.). The recovery of meaning: Historical Archaeology in the eastern United States.

Mark P. Leone & Parker B. Potter, Jr. (ed.). The recovery of meaning: Historical Archaeology in the eastern United States. (2nd ed.). xxvi+490 pages, 50 figures, 16 tables. 2003. ClintonCorners (NY): Percheron; 0-9719587-3-4 paperback $39.50. * Historical Archaeology Historical archaeology is a branch of archaeology that concerns itself with "historical" societies, i.e. those that had systems of writing. It is often distinguished from prehistoric archaeology which studies societies with no writing. (1988) recommended critique of capitalism Capitalism has been critiqued from many angles in its history. MarketsThe "free market"Though many associate the free market concept with capitalism, there are some critics —notably mutualists and some other anarchists – who believe that a to a wide readership. Republished, MARK LEONE reflects on development ofthat agenda since. He picks out Matthew Johnson on England, CarmelSchrire Carmel Schrire is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. PublicationsSchrire, Carmel. Digging through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8139-1558-9. Schrire, Carmel. on South Africa and Australia (whose mission he compares to thephilosopher, Jurgen Habermas's), Christopher Tilley on'Metaphor and material culture', and, for his'deconstruction' of Chichen Itza, the ethnographer, QuetzilCastaneda: 'people... need ... figured, and refigured pasts';'our self-knowledge can be raised ... by exhibiting materialculture in organized settings, which may help produce meanings nothitherto available to ... ourselves and others' (p. xix; cp.'Values', above). For those 'provoked' by theseremarks--or exasperated by some of the authors there singled out (cp. p.622, below)--the gauntlet is down. It should not be ignored. How couldit be gainsaid? See too Blackland prairies in 'Culture and environment',above, and BARRETT, in the previous section.