Many People, Many Plates: Archaeologies of Foodways

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2018

Food is not only nutrition. It is culture and history. Much of the foods people eat on a regular basis are the direct result of long complex historical processes. Archaeology not only provides insight into what people ate or how they prepared it, it also offers a lens into cross-cultural interactions and the intersectionality of gender, race, class, and other axis of difference. Participants in this symposium explore the interactions between people across time and place to uncover the history in our food and discuss the ways they use the archaeology of foodways as a tool for public engagement and social justice.

Other Keywords
Foodways • Agriculture • Education • Archaeology • Zooarchaeology • Great Depression • Urban Archaeology • Butchery • Public Archaeology • West Africa

Temporal Keywords
20th Century • 18th-20th centuries • 21st Century • 17th-19th centuries • 19th and 20th centuries • 1942-1946 • 1867-1960 • 7th - 19th centuries

Geographic Keywords
North America • Coahuila (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Nuevo Leon (State / Territory)

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  1. Agricultural Practices in the Upper Casamance Region, Senegal, 7th-19th Centuries AD: Archaeobotanical Results from Payoungou and Korop (2018)
  2. Archaeologies of Foodways through Butchery at Manzanar National Historic Site (2018)
  3. "A Better and Surer Food Supply": Promoting Foodways in the US Federal Education System for Alaska Natives, ca. 1884-1960 (2018)
  4. A Class Apart. Shifting Attitudes about the Consumption of Fish (2018)
  5. Colonial Foodways in Barbados: A Diachronic Study of Faunal Remains and Stable Isotopes from Trent’s Plantation, 17th-19th centuries (2018)
  6. Foodways at the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class at Hollywood Plantation (2018)
  7. Local Tradition or Response to Hard Times? 20th-Century Urban Foodways in Toledo, Ohio (2018)
  8. Radicalizing African Diasporic Foodways When Academia is Not Enough (2018)
  9. Rations, Hunting, Fishing, and Farms: Pre- and Post-Emancipation Foodways on James Island (2018)