TY - JOUR
T1 - Presentation is Everything
T2 - Foodways, Tablewares, and Colonial Identity at Presidio Los Adaes
AU - Pavao-Zuckerman, Barnet
AU - Loren, Diana Di Paolo
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Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank George Avery and Hiram F. “Pete” Gregory for the opportunity to examine these materials, and the Louisiana Division of Archaeology for financial support of the zooarchaeological analysis. Pavao-Zuckerman is also grateful to Elizabeth J. Reitz, Claire Giannasi, Kimber Collins, Jennifer Webber, Kelly Orr, Matthew Compton, and Siavash Samei for their assistance with the zooarchaeological analysis. A version of this paper was presented by the authors at the 2000 Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - Ceramics and zooarchaeological remains are commonly used as indicators of status and wealth at colonial-period sites, yet colonial expectations with regard to cuisine were often difficult to meet within the rigors of frontier life. In this paper, we juxtapose faunal and ceramic assemblages from Presidio Los Adaes and, informed by ethnohistorical and visual data, investigate how social expectations with regard to foodways were negotiated on the Spanish colonial frontier. While ceramic evidence suggests that tableware varied among households, the zooarchaeological assemblage indicates that Los Adaes residents shared the same basic diet.
AB - Ceramics and zooarchaeological remains are commonly used as indicators of status and wealth at colonial-period sites, yet colonial expectations with regard to cuisine were often difficult to meet within the rigors of frontier life. In this paper, we juxtapose faunal and ceramic assemblages from Presidio Los Adaes and, informed by ethnohistorical and visual data, investigate how social expectations with regard to foodways were negotiated on the Spanish colonial frontier. While ceramic evidence suggests that tableware varied among households, the zooarchaeological assemblage indicates that Los Adaes residents shared the same basic diet.
KW - Colonialism
KW - Cuisine
KW - Foodways
KW - Identity
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U2 - 10.1007/s10761-012-0173-2
DO - 10.1007/s10761-012-0173-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857685496
VL - 16
SP - 199
EP - 226
JO - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
JF - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
SN - 1092-7697
IS - 1
ER -