... and eating, household organization, health and sanitation, religious life, personal appearance, social hierarchy, leisure activities, and personal economy. What little we know about how the people at La Isabela dealt with these issues comes from the archaeological record. La Isabela's chroniclers wrote...

... that the archaeological record is often the only direct source of information about cultural practice and daily life of nonliterate participants in the colonial arena. This final chapter compares and interprets the archaeological and historical data from some Spanish sites of the very early colonial period to more...

...The judicial archives reveal a fragmented world. The events are mundane and their occurrence beyond commonplace. The characters are ordinary and the documentary record of them is fragmentary. This chapter describes the pleasure at discovering how in these tatters of lives and scraps of disputes...

... in the archaeological record, many Olynthian houses did have specific rooms which seem to have been intended for women's activities: the kitchen-complex. The distribution of artifacts in houses at Olynthus reveals very different and much more diverse patterns of household organization. gendered division of space...

... and their many faces. The archive is born out of disorder and darkness. This chapter paints a picture of the people discovered during research. The city of Paris, its people, and then their faces leap out from the archival record. Paris research people archive record To give preference to the judicial...

...This chapter discusses the creation of the heredity clinic. When the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) shut down the associates of the former ERO superintendent Harry Laughlin established the Heredity clinics in 1939, as a new and hybrid kind of eugenics institute. Heredity clinics started out...

... and accumulating a personal fortune of $5.6 billion, Heineken had also been a songwriter, record producer, and jazz fan. The chapter discusses the author's meeting with Heineken, when the beer magnate was only sixty-seven years old. Freddy Heineken obituary brewery magnate songwriter record producer jazz fan...

...This chapter argues that the most important facts in the opinion are not those established by a trial court as it builds the record. Rather, the important facts are constitutive of the context or horizon from within which the relevant law is to be seen. A case often involves a conflict over...