Papers by Anna Agbe-Davies
Material Worlds: Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity, 2017
Focusing on ceramics, the authors use the idea of “petty consumerism” to explore the variability ... more Focusing on ceramics, the authors use the idea of “petty consumerism” to explore the variability of the consumer revolution, particularly among laborers on pre- and post- Emancipation plantations in the US Southeast. They interlace multiple lines of evidence to understand the consumption of ceramic vessels from production to marketing, distribution, and retailing, through use and discard. They then turn to one discrete market—Stagville, a plantation in North Carolina, investigating the domestic assemblage together with ledgers and daybooks from the plantation store. These datasets demonstrate that consumer decisions—even regarding “tedious” goods—reveal significant local and regional patterns.
Archaeologies, 2011
... Following Benedict Anderson (Anderson 1991) they are ''imagined'' in the ... more ... Following Benedict Anderson (Anderson 1991) they are ''imagined'' in the sense that members may not have direct social relations and their cohesion is in some sense mediated (by newspapers, for example). Communities are also marked (Waugh 1982). ...
Transforming Anthropology, 2013
Between Dirt and Discussion, 2006
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2009
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Papers by Anna Agbe-Davies