The Archaeology of Citizenship by Stacey Lynn Camp

The Archaeology of Citizenship by Stacey Lynn Camp

Since the founding of the United States, the rights to citizenship have been carefully crafted and policed by the Europeans who originally settled and founded the country. Immigrants have been extended and denied citizenship in various legal and cultural ways. While the subject of citizenship has often been examined from a sociological, historical, or legal perspective, historical archaeologists have yet to fully explore the material aspects of these social boundaries. The Archaeology of Citizenship uses the material record to explore what it means to be an American. Using a late-nineteenth-century California resort as a case study, Stacey Camp discusses how the parameters of citizenship and national belonging have been defined and redefined since Europeans arrived on the continent. In a unique and powerful contribution to the field of historical archaeology, Camp uses the remnants of material culture to reveal how those in power sought to mold the composition of the United States and how those on the margins of American society carved out their own definitions of citizenship.

Stacey Lynn Camp is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Idaho.

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ISBN 13	9780813064192
ISBN 10	0813064198
Title	The Archaeology of Citizenship
Author	Stacey Lynn Camp
Series	The American Experience In Archaeological Perspective
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University Press of Florida
Year published	2019-04-30
Number of pages	194
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