Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Other Keywords
Gender • Identity • Masculinity • Marriage • Missions • Colonial • orientation • Spatiality • Old West • Minstrelsy

Geographic Keywords
California • Texas and Mexico

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  • Creating and Contesting Male Personhood on the Last Spanish Colonial Frontier (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily D. Dylla.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gender roles were an especially visible aspect of Spanish Colonial evangelization in Alta California. Part of the worldview Franciscan missionaries attempted to impart to Indigenous neophyte communities was a particular model of manhood, rooted in medieval European ideology and medicant philosophy. Missionaries also...

  • How 2020 Changed the Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth Mallios.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Even at its inception twenty years ago, the Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project was focused on 2020, as this date marked the 100-year anniversary of Harrison’s passing. Archaeological insights into San Diego County’s most prominent African-American pioneer grew with each year of research, and we scheduled a...

  • Nathan Harrison: Adaptations of Identity and Masculinity on Palomar Mountain (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jamie Bastide. Seth Mallios.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the late 19th and early 20th century, Jim Crow and Sundown Laws dominated SouthernCalifornia. As a previously enslaved man living in a region settled predominantly by Anglo-Americans from the South, Nathan Harrison had to construct his identities within these societal pressures. Using historical documents, oral...

  • Sinister and Righteous: Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only C Riley Auge. Michaela A Shifley.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Early anthropological studies established, without question, the pervasive importance of the cultural and gendered constructs of right/left in societies around the world as primary structuring elements behaviorally, socially, politically, and materially. Yet beyond Ira Wile’s 1934 and Rodney Needham’s 1973 volumes, we see...

  • Strategic Alliances 1750-1820: Marriage and inheritance patterns among the first Spanish colonial settlers along the Rio Grande in Texas (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary J Galindo. Antonia Figueroa.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Six Nuevo Santander settlements were established along the Rio Grande in Texas and Tamaulipas. Laredo and Dolores were on the northern bank, while Revilla, Mier, Camargo, and Reynosa lined the river’s southern bank. Each municipality’s territory included 1767 land grants to settlers that straddled the Rio Grande. These...