The Materiality of Individuality (eBook)

The Materiality of Individuality 2
Contents 5
Contributors 7
Introduction: Objects, Scale, and Identity Entangled 9
Identity and Historical Archaeology 11
Individual Lives 13
Entangled/Untangled Lives 14
Corporeality 15
Daily Practices, Episodic Events, and Social Networks 16
Particular People 17
Articulation with Broader Patterns 19
References 20
The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph: An Eighteenth-Century Mission-Garrison-Trading Post Complex on the Edge 24
Introduction 24
Individuality, Identity, and Archaeological Agents 25
The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph 29
Further Implications of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Collections 33
Summary and Conclusions 37
References 38
People in Objects: Individuality and the Quotidian in the Material Culture of War 42
People in Landscapes/Landscapes in People 45
Ambiguous Components 46
Natural Worlds 51
The Compression and Unwinding of Time 54
Individual and Society 57
References 59
A Biography of a Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle: The Biucchi Brothers and the Ticinese Community in Nineteenth-Century London 61
Introduction 61
A Stoneware Bottle: Archaeological Histories, 1990–2004 61
Clerkenwell’s Little Italy: A Neighborhood History, 1850–1902 64
The Biucchi Brothers: Second-Generation Immigrant Histories, 1890–1938 65
Family and Ticinese and Italian Connections: Kin and Origin 68
Observing London’s Mineral Water Trade 69
Archaeological Perspectives 72
The Past Meets the Present: Tony Buicchi 73
Conclusion: Tangibility in Historical Archaeology 75
References 76
Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in Nineteenth-C 79
Introduction 79
Architectural Lime as a Material of Individuality 80
The Inception of Architectural Lime in Hawaii (1798–1819) 81
The Early Missionary Era (1820–1830s) 82
Lime in the “Great Awakening” (1830s–1850) 86
Lime in the Second Half of the 19th Century 89
Conclusions 90
References 92
Bodkin Biographies 97
References 107
Material Manipulations: Beads and Cloth in the French Colonies 111
Introduction 111
Materiality of Colonialism 112
Tangible Materials 114
Beads 114
Cloth and Deerskin 116
Combinations and Constructions: Cloth, Hide, Glass, and Shell on the Body 118
Conclusions 122
References 123
Mission Santa Catalina’s Mondadiente de Plata (Silver Toothpick): Materiality and the Construction of Self in Spanish La Florid 127
The Individual 130
The Toothpick: Personal Hygiene and Adornment 131
The Toothpick: In History and Archaeology 134
Negotiating Identity in the New World: The Hidalgo and Criollo 137
References 139
Single Shoes and Individual Lives: The Mill Creek Shoe Project 142
Shoes and Individuals 142
Shoes and Historical Archaeology 143
The Mill Creek Shoe Project 143
The Mill Creek Shoe Assemblage 144
Three Styles 145
Wear, Repair, Form, and Individuality 148
Wear 149
Presence and Absence of Repair 151
Layers of Individuality 153
The Mill Creek Shoe Assemblage and Layers of Individuality 153
Faces in the Crowd: Three Shoes 154
Life I: Child 154
Life II: Man or Woman 155
Life III: Woman 156
Three Lives = A Community? 157
The Mill Creek Assemblage 158
References 159
Beyond Consumption: Social Relationships, Material Culture, and Identity 162
Family Background 163
The Changing Meaning of the Individual 164
Late Eighteenth-Century Self-Fashioning 166
Culture Brokers 167
Archaeology at the Tyng Property 169
Disjunctures 170
Dress and Politics 176
Conclusion 179
References 180
Widow Pratt’s Possessions: Individuality and Georgianization in Newport, Rhode Island 183
Introduction 183
Widow Elizabeth Pratt of Newport 183
The Individuality of Materiality 184
Evidence 186
History and Biography 186
Archaeology 188
Material Practices 189
Retail 190
Dining 192
Drinking 194
Reflections 197
References 199
Consuming Individuality: Collective Identity Along the Color Line 204
Racialized Individuality 214
References 215
Index 217