Eating in the Side Room : Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity /

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Warner uses the archaeological data on food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, as the point of departure for a broader look at the centrality of material culture in the construction of African identity in America.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Warner, Mark S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Maynard-Burgess House (Annapolis, Md.)
Food habits.
Excavations (Archaeology)
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Material culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Noirs americains > Culture materielle > Maryland > Annapolis > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Alimentation > Maryland > Annapolis.
Fouilles (Archeologie) > Maryland > Annapolis.
Habitudes alimentaires > Maryland > Annapolis.
African Americans > Material culture > Maryland > Annapolis > History.
African Americans > Food > Maryland > Annapolis.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Maryland > Annapolis.
Food habits > Maryland > Annapolis.
Maryland > Annapolis.
Annapolis (Md.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Food, archaeology, and African American identity
  • Situating the Maynard and Burgess Families
  • Excavating the "other Annapolis"
  • The foods they ate
  • Food as community: Maynard and Burgess food habits in regional contexts
  • African Americans and consumption
  • In the "side room": eating with the Maynards and the Burgesses
  • Conclusions: meals and their legacies.

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