Russian Mennonite immigrants who settled south central Kansas in the late 19th century and their descendants naturally developed a discourse community that differentiates them from the dominant culture in which they reside. Changing regional dynamics regarding diversity along wi…
This dissertation compares archaeological assemblages from the Stono Plantation/Dill Farm, James Island, South Carolina between the periods of enslavement and Emancipation. Further comparisons are made with the neighboring Ferguson Road archaeological site and the Smith Plantati…
Households provide a glimpse into the everyday life of a small group of individuals. When studied systematically we can learn how households fit into the social, economic, and political systems practiced by the larger community. I explore socio-economic household status in the M…
This thesis explores the role of innovation in the enactment of tradition through the flourishing of the Prince Edward County Community Cannery in Farmville, Virginia. By narrating one canning season in Prince Edward County, I tell a larger story about foodways in the American S…
Ce mémoire se consacre à la renaissance culinaire du Québec après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un renouveau gastronomique accentué par la Révolution tranquille, l’Exposition universelle de Montréal, la création de l’Institut de Tourisme et d’Hôtellerie du Québec, la montée du nat…
Through the production, preparation, and consumption of food, individuals create and reconstruct their worldview in relation to their personal identity and expression of self. At James Madison’s Montpelier, the agency of enslaved and formerly enslaved individuals was reconstruct…
Flush with the victory of World War II, America faced an expansive industrial and agricultural landscape that had been focused on war. As factories re-tooled themselves from military production to a domestic market, kitchen appliances, metal cabinets, plastics, and synthetic fab…
During the seventeenth century in the Mohawk Valley, European trade goods became commonplace. However, little is known about how colonialism impacted Mohawk agricultural practice and foodways. This thesis presents paleoethnobotanical findings from ten Mohawk archaeological sites…
This dissertation examines Luke's development of a meal motif in the light of three inter-related hermeneutical contexts. The first is the branch of anthropology known as “foodways” which explores the cultural significance of comestibles, cooking and commensality. The two major …
This dissertation demonstrates how the concept of edibility as it pertained to animals was both culturally constructed and changed over time as settler colonialism took root in the early modern Atlantic World. In the first phases of Atlantic World colonization, Europeans travele…
Don’t Get Me Started About the Water analyzes the food in the dinner of Juvenal’s fifth satire from the perspective of Roman foodways in the first and second centuries. This analysis provides a surprising conclusion: although the guest and host are served dishes differing vastly…
Over the last few decades, archaeologists have found increasing evidence for migration and other forms of population movement among precontact Indigenous groups in North America, creating dynamic social interactions that directly impacted local communities and regional networks.…
Vincennes, a historic city on the Indiana bank of the Wabash River that is surrounded by rolling farmland punctuated by old woods, forms the setting for this study about fricassee soup, church picnics, and how these traditions build community and express identity. Vincennes chur…
Recent refugees arriving in the United States have escaped political and social oppression in countries such as Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Iraqi Kurdistan, Laos, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, and Liberia. Drastic changes occur in the lives of individuals who flee their homes to a new count…
The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous…
The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous…
My dissertation, “The Diet of Sovereignty: Bioarchaeology in Tlaxcallan”, explores the role of foodways and food sovereignty in contexts of imperial resistance. As the Aztec Empire spread across Late Postclassic Central Mexico (AD 1325-1519), the state of Tlaxcala stood as a ble…