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The archaeology of ethnogenesis : race and sexuality in San Francisco /

This pioneering work of historical archaeology sheds light on the genesis of the Californios, a community of military settlers who forged a new identity on the northwest edge of Spanish North America. The revised edition includes a new preface from the author, looking at the development of ethnogene...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Voss, Barbara L., 1967- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Édition:Revised edition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Ethnogenesis and the archaeology of identity
  • Part 1: Historical and archaeological contexts. Spanish-Colonial in 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
  • Part 2: Spatial and material practices. Sites of identification : landscape ; Structuring structures : architecture ; Tradition and taste : ceramics ; Consuming practices : foodways ; Fashioning the colonial subject : clothing
  • Conclusion: The limits of ethnogenesis
  • Appendix: Zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical analyses.