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The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis : Race and Sexuality in Colonial 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Voss, Barbara L., 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Edition:Revised edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Ethnogenesis and the archaeology of identity
  • 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.