Cooking with Mary: How Household Archaeology, Sensory Engagement, and Food Come Together

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Mary Beaudry’s contributions to historical archaeology were diverse and, in many ways, foundational. Over the course of her career, Mary explored the ways historical cultures conceptualized their world and themselves, from the linguistic evidence of probate inventories, to household goods and small finds as expressions of identity, to the material culture of cooking and dining. In this presentation, I will focus on the intersection of three of Mary’s key interests: food archaeology, sensory engagement, and household archaeology. Together, these areas connect her (and us) intimately to material culture, to households, and to past human experience. Her concept of assemblages of practices as applied to meals and mealtimes highlights the importance of envisioning people, things, and sensory experience together.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• “Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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