Served on a Pueblo Soup Plate: Food Preparation, Serving, and Identity in Early Colonial New Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Spanish colonists living on estancias and missions in 17th century New Mexico used Pueblo Indian produced goods for their much of their daily practice. This included the use of sandstone cooking griddles, ceramic serving bowls, cooking jars, and soup plates. While the use of Indigenous ceramics in Spanish households has received a significant amount of research in other contexts, this practice has not been studied in depth in early colonial New Mexico. By analyzing the practices of cooking, serving, and eating in a New Mexican Spanish household – I seek to understand how foodways and material culture worked to reify Spanish identity in 17th century New Mexico.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26140