Acculturation Creolization Transculturation

What is the link between body and identity?› How does your body influence who you

think you are?› How does who you think you are help

shape your body?

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The body as ‘project’: reflects an individual identity› Related to conditions of high modernity› The body is one of the last arenas open to control› That control is far from absolute: disease,

reproduction

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Body Maintenance

Running: 90 minsBathing: 20 minsHair: 20 minsFood prep: 90 minsEating: 90 minsTeeth: 10 minsOther: 30 mins

~ 6 hours

Embodiment

An embodied body represents a lived experience› Natural, social, cultural and physical

phenomena are “brought to fruition” through the use of extural objects

How we experience the world through our bodies with material culture

Material Culture & Identity

material culture has a variety of social meanings and uses

Material culture imbued with symbolic, cognitive and functional meanings

Interpreting The Body Through Material Culture

Representation› 2d & 3d modelings of bodies (which carry

with them social constructs of the body) Residues of daily life

› Activity areas Extension

› Tools & objects used by the body to the extend the use of one’s body

What types of material culture might be able to tell us something about the body? What can they tell us?

How might you know if something was a male or female object in our culture?

Introduction to Archaeological Analysis

Why do we do historical archaeology?› Not all history was written down

What do historical archaeologists study?› Time period = generally post 1500› Cultures = usually Euro-based cultures and

those that encountered Euro-based cultures Colonialism

› Sites = anything you can think of

Food Related

•Dishes & Plates•Bowls•Serving Vessels•Etc.

Food Related

Ironstone•Very Inexpensive and utilitarian•Often used in Hotels because it is very sturdy•Usually undecorated with just a white glaze

Food Related

Shell Edged Whiteware•Inexpensive and very common - everyday sort of item•Either Blue or Green design but all basically the same•Design is simple

Food Related

Hand Painted Porcelain•Fanciest•Designs are more individual – different artists

Tea Wares

Food Remains

Health & Hygiene

Toothbrushes Medicine Bottles

Cosmetics Jar

Tobacco Related

Dress & Ornament

The Green Site: Data

Late 18th to Early 19th century Domestic (house) site Lincoln, Rhode Island Site name from current landowners –

not related to original unknown inhabitants