The Archaeology of 19th-Century Farmsteads: The Results of a Workshop Held at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology

A workshop was held at the 1997 annual meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology (CNEHA) to address the question What do we do with 19th-century farmsteads in the Northeast? The workshop involved several brainstorming sessions in which the participants examined topics and problems associated with current approaches to the archaeological investigation of farmstead sites. These brainstorming sessions examined questions such as: What is a 19th-century farmstead? What are the research and public values of these sites? Which sites should be examined? and How should these sites be investigated? The workshop ended with the development of an action agenda with recommendations on how we as a discipline, and CNEHA as an organization, should proceed with the research, interpretation, and preservation of these types of sites

Colonial institutions : uses, subversions, and material afterlives

Archaeologically based explorations of colonialism or institutions are common case-studies in global historical archaeology, but the "colonial institution"-the role of institutions as operatives of colonialism-has often been neglected. In this thematic edition we argue that in order to fully understand the interconnected, global world one must explicitly dissect the colonial institution as an entwined, dual manifestation that is central to understanding both power and power relations in the modern world. Following Ann Laura Stoler, we have selected case studies from the Australia, Europe, UK and the USAwhich reveal that the study of colonial institutions should not be limited to the functional life of these institutions-or solely those that take the form of monumental architecture-but should include the long shadow of "imperial debris" (Stoler 2008) and immaterial institutions

Religious colonialism in early modern Malta : inquisitorial imprisonment and inmate graffiti

Early modern Malta was governed by three institutions—the Order of St. John, the Bishopric, and the Roman Inquisition—which all ultimately answered to the Holy See. By focusing on the institution under the most direct Papal control, the inquisition, this paper seeks to explore the role of imprisonment in furthering the Vatican’s cultural and political control on the island. Through analyses of the prison cells and the inmate’s graffiti, I argue that the inquisition’s ability to imprison and negate the spectacle of public suffering was crucial to the Vatican’s colonial position in Malta