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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.