Five Pounds Beef, Five Pounds Poi, and One Gallon Milk: Archaeological and Social Implications of Employee Meat Allowances on Hawaiʻi's Parker Ranch
Author(s): Benjamin T Barna; Lauren M U K Tam Sing
Year: 2017
Summary
During a recent contract project on Hawaiʻi Island’s Parker Ranch, ASM Affiliates recorded the ranch’s former slaughterhouse and interviewed several former ranch employees who had been involved in slaughtering and butchering the ranch's beef. Our discussions with them included descriptions of a beef allowance provided by Parker Ranch to its employees, a practice one of many ways the ranch took care of its own. Because the allowance was limited to specific cuts of meat, we analyized faunal assemblages associated with the ranch to test the idea that the Parker Ranch employee beef allowance might be archaeologically recognizable. This paper describes our efforts and discusses potential implications of establishling such linkages among zooarchaeological remains and the larger social and economic systems that produced them.
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Five Pounds Beef, Five Pounds Poi, and One Gallon Milk: Archaeological and Social Implications of Employee Meat Allowances on Hawaiʻi's Parker Ranch. Benjamin T Barna, Lauren M U K Tam Sing. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435274)
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Keywords
General
corporate paternalism
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Zooarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1847-1960s
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 207