Professional Documents
Culture Documents
xvii, 190
pages, illustrated. Cambridge:
University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-85394-1. £50 (hbk).
The volume ends with a chapter that provides a focused conclusion to the
case studies. Revisiting them, Mrozowski draws conclusions and relates
them to the broader theoretical framework. The undertaking is an
important contribution to the further development of the analysis of class
through archaeology. This is an absorbing and enjoyable read, one that
makes you think and appreciate the sheer scale of the project Mrozowski
has undertaken. Although clearly American in content it has echoes of
comparable situations within the United Kingdom, and could be usefully
employed by students of the archaeology of class in Britain. Mrozowski
describes his book as an ‘effort to breathe new meaning into a handful of
lives
long since past’ (p. 157). In this he has been exceptionally successful.
Manchester