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Acculturation Creolization Transculturation
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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 3
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4 Running: 90 mins Bathing: 20 mins Hair:20 mins Food prep:90 mins Eating:90 mins Teeth:10 mins Other:30 mins ~ 6 hours
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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
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material culture has a variety of social meanings and uses Material culture imbued with symbolic, cognitive and functional meanings
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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
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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?
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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
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Dishes & Plates Bowls Serving Vessels Etc.
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Ironstone Very Inexpensive and utilitarian Often used in Hotels because it is very sturdy Usually undecorated with just a white glaze
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Shell Edged Whiteware Inexpensive and very common - everyday sort of item Either Blue or Green design but all basically the same Design is simple
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Hand Painted Porcelain Fanciest Designs are more individual – different artists
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ToothbrushesMedicine Bottles Cosmetics Jar
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Late 18 th to Early 19 th century Domestic (house) site Lincoln, Rhode Island Site name from current landowners – not related to original unknown inhabitants
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