Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement

Mary C. Beaudry is Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy and Chair of the Department of Archaeology at Boston University. She is author of Findings: The Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing (Yale, 2006), co-author of “Living on the Boott”: Historical Archaeology of the Boott Mills Boardinghouses in Lowell, Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts, 1996), editor of Documentary Archaeology in the New World (Cambridge, 1988), co-editor with Dan Hicks of The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology (Cambridge, 2006) and of The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies (Oxford, 2010), co-editor with Anne Yentsch of The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology (CRC, 1992), and co-editor with James Symonds of Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives (Springer, 2010). She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters and served for 15 years as editor of the journal Northeast Historical Archaeology. Travis G. Parno is a PhD candidate in Boston University's Department of Archaeology. He served on the CHAT conference committee and assisted in the planning and implementation of the conference. His dissertation looks to extend the temporal focus of household archaeology and explores intersections of place-making and heritage at the Fairbanks House in Dedham, MA. His previous publications include studies of archaeological photography (in Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress), three-dimensional digital modeling (in Society of Post-Medieval Archaeology), Catholic material culture at James Fort, VA (in Historical Archaeologies of Cognition), and contemporary graffiti in Bristol, UK (in Wild Signs: Inscribing Society).

​ INTRODUCTION
Mary C. Beaudry and Travis G. Parno
Introduction: Archaeologies of Movement
 
PART ONE: MOVEMENT OF OBJECTS
Visa Immonen
Intercontinental Flows of Desire: Brass Kettles in Lapland and in the Colony of New Sweden
Scott Joseph Allen
The Movement of People and Things in the Captania de Pernambuco: Challenges for Archaeological Interpretation
Oscar Aldred
Farmers, Sorting Folds, Earmarks and Sheep in Iceland
Ronald Salzer
Mobility Ahead of its Time - a 15th-century Austrian Pocket Sundial as a Trailblazing Instrument for Time Measurement on Travels
 
PART TWO: MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE
Chief-fu Jeff Cheng  and Ellen Hseih
The Archaeological Study of the Military Dependents Village of Taiwan
Mats Burström
Buried Memories: Wartime Caches and Family History in Estonia
Craig Cipolla
Resituating Homeland: Motion, Movement & Ethnogenesis at Brothertown
Sean Winter
The Global versus the Local: Modelling the British System of Convict Transportation after 1830
Karen Hutchins
Movement and Liminality at the Margins: the Wandering Poor in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts
Magdalena Naum (University of Cambridge)
The Malady of Emigrants: Homesickness and Longing in the Colony of New Sweden, 1638–1655
PART THREE: MOVEMENT THROUGH SPACES
John F. Cherry Luke J. Pecoraro  Krysta Ryzewski
"A Kinda Sacred Place": The Rock and Roll Ruins of Air Studios, Montserrat
Travis Parno
The Mosaic and the Interruption: An Approach to Material Aesthetics at Historic House Sites
Christina Hodge
Setting the Structure: Affordances of the Harvard Indian College
Alexander Keim (Boston University)
In the Street: Personal Adornment and Embodied Movement in the Urban Landscapes of Boston’s North End
 
AFTERWORD
Shannon Dawdy
TBD