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DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Hartse.

The Japanese village of Yama, located on Bainbridge Island, Washington, U.S.A., was occupied from the 1880s-1920s.  Yama contained approximately 250 people, and many residents worked at the Port Blakely Lumber Mill.  Using a transnational framework, I present analysis and interpretation of gender at the community of Yama and implications for a comparative and collaborative approach to the study of gender in the field of Japanese diaspora archaeology.

DOCUMENT Citation Only David R Carlson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Previous studies of pre-WWII Japanese immigrant/Japanese American (Nikkei) archaeology have largely (but not entirely) focused on culture change, typically through theories of assimilation/acculturation, ethnic retention, and/or diaspora and transnationalism. In this paper, I propose an alternative approach to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Ross.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological studies have shown that members of diasporic Japanese communities in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries consumed a range of alcoholic beverages, including Western-style beer, wine, and distilled spirits alongside Japanese saké and Chinese liquor (baijiu)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A. White. III.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds II: Historical Whitewashing and Modern Reimagining of Rural America’s Fantasy Past", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gender, culture, class, and race all play a role in alcoholic beverage preferences and consumption patterns in the American West. Archaeologists are also keenly aware that the early twentieth century labor void on farms in rural California was filled by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Ross.

Before we can move forward in Japanese diaspora archaeology, it is crucial that we take stock of what we have accomplished thus far. Such stock-taking will aid in identifying common themes and approaches that can help shape our field of study and highlight gaps where more research is needed. Here I present an overview of archaeological studies on Japanese sites completed to date in North America and the Pacific Islands, and offer my opinions on where we should be headed in the future. I...