Fan and Tsai: Intracommunity Variation in Plant-Based Food Consumption at the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California

Cummings, Linda Scott; Voss, Barbara L.; Yu, Connie Young; Kováčik, Peter; Puseman, Kathryn; Yost, Chad; Kennedy, Ryan; Kane, Megan S.

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“…Bioarchaeological studies, although limited, show that some Chinese migrants experienced nutritional stress as children and adolescents, presumably before migrating, but were not nutritionally stressed as adults (Harrod and Crandall 2015). Additionally, zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical research on the Market Street Chinatown collection shows that residents had access to a rich variety of both meat and plant foods (Cummings et al 2014; Kennedy 2016; Popper 2014).…”

Section: Supersized Ceramics: British Refined Earthenwaresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If the meal included soup or porridge, this was typically served first into diners’ individual bowls. After soup was eaten, some rice or other fan was served into the same bowl, with small bites of vegetables and meats from sung dishes added to the diners’ bowls throughout the meal (Anderson 1988; Chang 1977; Cummings et al 2014; Kennedy 2016; Simoons 1991).…”

Section: All the Rice Bowls Green And Flowered: Chinese-style Diningmentioning

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The Archaeology of Serious Games: Play and Pragmatism in Victorian-Era Dining

Voss

2018

Am. Antiq.

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This study expands on Ortner's practice-based theory of “serious games” by interpreting artifacts through a continuum of intention: pragmatism and play. Decisions and actions are defined as pragmatic according to their desired outcome, while play, in contrast, is an attitude or disposition toward the action itself. Both pragmatism and play are examined in this study of dining-related material culture (ceramic tablewares) from a nineteenth-century Chinatown. The research reveals that Chinatown residents varied considerably in their approach to dining, some using the full complement of British- and American-produced earthenwares associated with Victorian-era genteel dining, whereas others primarily used porcelain vessels congruent with dining conventions in southern China. Other households blended the two types of ceramics, typically using Chinese porcelain vessels for individual table settings and British- and American-produced earthenwares for serving vessels. Chinese porcelains were typically purchased in matched sets; in contrast, British and American earthenwares were acquired piece by piece, contributing aesthetic variety to Chinatown table settings. Together, these findings indicate that most Chinatown households were establishing their own “house rules” that redefined dining through new practices. The continuum of intention represented by pragmatism and play affords an integrated methodology for bridging functional/economic and cultural/symbolic interpretive frameworks in archaeology.

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Section: Supersized Ceramics: British Refined Earthenwaresmentioning

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Section: All the Rice Bowls Green And Flowered: Chinese-style Diningmentioning

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The Archaeology of Serious Games: Play and Pragmatism in Victorian-Era Dining

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2018

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Overseas Chinese Archaeology

Ross

2020

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

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Overseas Chinese Archaeology

Ross¹

2018

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

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Overseas Chinese archaeology focuses on 22 material remains associated with individuals and 23 communities of Chinese descent living abroad, 24 typically in the context of nineteenth and early 25 twentieth century global population movements. 26 It includes both first generation Chinese 27 immigrants and their naturalized descendants. 28 Studies have been undertaken from a range of theoretical perspectives, and there are currently no dominant research paradigms. To date, research is largely restricted to the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand but could include any country to which Chinese migrated over the past several hundred years or more. Generally excluded are sites not occupied by ethnic Chinese (broadly conceived) but where Chinese-manufactured objects, including coins and export porcelain, have been found. However, the field may encompass the influence of Chinese migrants and material culture on their non-Chinese neighbors and others with whom they interacted. Field projects have explored a range of urban and rural contexts, site types, and features. They include industries such as logging, mining, dam and road construction, charcoal burning, fish canning, shrimp and abalone harvesting and processing, and market gardening, as well as stores, restaurants, laundries, boarding houses, gambling halls, temples, cemeteries, and cooking features, among others (Fig. 1). Sites are typically identified through historical records or the presence of one or more classes of imported Chinese consumer goods, including ceramic table and storage wares, opium paraphernalia, glass pharmaceutical and beverage bottles, coins, and gaming artifacts. Chinese merchants developed large-scale distribution networks for imported foods and other goods that reached even the most remote labor camps (Fig. 2). Consequently, Chinese sites have been comparatively easy to identify archaeologically, although direct C. Smith (ed.

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Fan and Tsai: Intracommunity Variation in Plant-Based Food Consumption at the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

The Archaeology of Serious Games: Play and Pragmatism in Victorian-Era Dining

The Archaeology of Serious Games: Play and Pragmatism in Victorian-Era Dining

Overseas Chinese Archaeology

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