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The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis : Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco /

This innovative work of historical archaeology illuminates the genesis of the Californios, a community of military settlers who forged a new identity on the northwest edge of Spanish North America. Since 1993, Barbara L. Voss has conducted archaeological excavations at the Presidio of San Francisco,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Voss, Barbara L., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Ethnogenesis and the archaeology of identity
  • Spanish-colonial San Francisco
  • From casta to Californio, I : who lived at El Presidio de San Francisco?
  • From casta to Californio, II : social identities in late Spanish and Mexican-era Alta California
  • From artifacts to ethnogenesis : excavating El Presidio de San Francisco
  • Sites of identification : landscape
  • Structuring structures : architecture
  • Tradition and taste : ceramics
  • Consuming practices : foodways
  • Fashioning the colonial subject : clothing
  • Conclusion.