Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives

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Consumer Choice and Beads in Fugitive Slave Villages in Nineteenth-Century Kenya

“…A central claim of this article is that the bead assemblages recovered at Koromio and Makoroboi represent meaningful and intentional consumer choices, rather than simply forces of market access and economic standing. For the past thirty years, consumer choice and consumption models have helped archaeologists understand how the objects that people acquire both reflect and help to shape social self-creation-including not only class, but also gender and cultural identities (Cook et al 1996;Fitts 1999;Miller 1987;Rotman 2009;Spencer-Wood 1996;Wall 1991Wall , 1994. Spencer-Wood's (1987a: 1, 4, 10-11) Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology demonstrated how consumption patterns (particularly of ceramics and fauna) are shaped by socioeconomic status, market access, ethnicity, race, and political status, as well as household size, composition, and life cycle.…”

The Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead: Post-Emancipation Transitions of an African American Family in Central Texas Vol. 2

“…The research themes and topics listed above follow investigative strategies recommended and discussed by several prominent historical archeologists, including: Barile (2004); Barile and Brandon (2004); Beaudry (1989Beaudry ( , 2002; Hardesty and Little (2000); Hendon (2006); LeeDecker (1994); Rotman (2009);Saitta (2007); Scott (1990); Spencer-Wood (1987,1999); Stine (1990);and Wilson (1990). Concepts pertaining to the historic farmsteads as agricultural systems and the importance of agricultural landscapes were derived from: Freeman et al (2005); Hardesty and Little (2000); Majewski and Gaimster (2009);McClelland et al (1989); Scott (1990); and Wilson (1990).…”

Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

“…This resulted in a decrease in integrated household economies and the creation of a consumer economy aimed largely at the middle classes (Rotman 2009;Wall 1994). During this time period areas of homes and yards were redesigned to make them more isolated and private (Yentsch 1991, p. 196;Rotman 2009, p. 19;Wurst 2003).…”