Nineteenth-Century Households and Consumer Behavior in Wilmington, Delaware

LeeDecker, Charles H.; Klein, Terry H.; Holt, Cheryl A.; Friedlander, Amy

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“…Acquisition then represents the pivotal moment when individuals, using personal experience informed by social knowledge, make consumer choices regarding the consumption of goods (Spencer-Wood 1987b). The shortterm and long-term patterning created by household consumer choice creates patterns reflective of particular combinations of household familial composition (LeeDecker et al 1987), occupation, and status within the larger societal structures and norms of the day. It is in this way that consumerism, ultimately reflected in patterns of consumption, is not simply the act of acquiring goods in order to consume them; but a complex process that articulates local and non-local aspects of production and social knowledge with the personal desires and strategies of individual consumers.…”

Section: Consumerism and Consumer Behavior In The Cripple Creek Mininmentioning

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Consumer Strategy and Household Consumption in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado, USA

Sweitz

2012

Int J Histor Archaeol

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The Cripple Creek Mining District of Colorado (USA) was billed as "the World's Greatest Gold Camp" in the 1890s and was home to a multitude of men, women, and children who left behind a record of past consumer behavior. Examination of fourteen household archaeological assemblages provides insight into aspects of household consumption strategies and the negotiation of socioeconomic class relationships within the late nineteenth and early twentieth century mining communities in the American West. An analytical approach that combines the quantitative economic scaling of ceramics and faunal remains is used in combination with the qualitative analysis of entire assemblages to understand consumer strategies and the negotiation of class relationships between households in the district.

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Section: Consumerism and Consumer Behavior In The Cripple Creek Mininmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer Strategy and Household Consumption in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado, USA

Sweitz

2012

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Brewer and Porter (1993: 3) stated that one of the primary problems of the concept of consumption, when applied to economic history and material culture, was that it was 'historiographically immature'. When this statement was made, the focus of the application of the concept had been placed upon the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; for example Johnson (1988), LeeDecker et al (1987), Shammas (1993), and Weatherill (1988;. However, consumption has been applied more recently to other branches of archaeological study, such as archaeology of Native America (Bayman 1996), Latin America (Vaughn 2004), and the Bronze Age (Webb 1998).…”

Section: The Application Of Consumption To Historical and Archaeologimentioning

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Consumption and Roman Archaeology: Beyond Pompeii

Ray

2006

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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“…Particular elements that historical archaeologists have explored include the household's composition and the roles of its individual members (cf. Deagan 1983;De Cunzo 1987;LeeDecker et al 1987;Yentsch 1990), home production (of food, shelter, clothing, and other basic necessities as well as of marketable surplus products) (cf. Bowen 1988;Carlson 1990;Turnbaugh 1985;Yentsch 1988), and consumer behavior (see especially SpencerWood 1987).…”

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Building a Framework for Research: Delaware's Management Plan for Historical Archaeological Resources

Cunzo

Catts²

1990

NEHA

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IntroductionIn the United States, the federal historic preservation program has enumerated a set of basic goals (National Park Service 1983). They guide the historic preservation planning process in each state, and consist of: 1) identifying the state's cultural resources; 2) establishing criteria by which to determine the significance of the resources; 3) applying the criteria in evaluating identified resources; and 4) developing means to assure preservation of significant resources and/or the significant information contained therein (Ames et a!. 1989: 1). This planning process is closely tied to the National Register of Historic Places created by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.The historic context forms the "cornerstone of historic preservation planning" (Ames et a!. 1989: 20). The historic context framework of time, space, and research themes provides a mechanism for evaluating historic resources in relation to broader cultural and historical patterns (Ames et a!. 1989: 20; National Park Service 1983). It allows consideration of therelationships between archaeological and other historic resources. At the same time, it promotes integration and synthesis of disparate studies undertaken across each state, spanning over three centuries, and addressing innumerable topics from several theoretical and methodological perspectives.In Management Plans in each state, then, a historic context framework is developed, and strategic plans presented for meeting the historic preservation program goals. Built on the historic context framework, these strategic plans are, by definition, oriented toward research as the basis of management.Over the past several years, the State Historic Preservation Office in Delaware has sponsored preparation of a series of Management Plans. The first, in 1986, was A (FIG. 1). Management Plan for Delaware's Prehistoric Cultural ResourcesThe most significant modification is the conflation of the Comprehensive Plan's 18 historic themes into four research domains. The purpose was not to confound integration of the study and management of Delaware's historical archaeological and other historic resources.Rather, as pointed out in the Comprehensive Plan, flexibility is a key component of the historic context concept. Within the historic context framework, themes can be developed across time and space, chronological periods can be developed as individual contexts, or contexts can even be constructed from a combination of themes and chronological periods at a variety of geographical scales (Ames eta!. 1989: 20).For the Management Plan's purpose of providing general guidance in planning for, identifying, evaluating, registering, and treating Delaware's historical archaeological resources, the research domains both relate better to the trends and directions in historical archaeological research today and serve to link and interrelate the various themes. TheComprehensive Plan also points out that development of historic contexts should comprise one of the first elements of the preservat...

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Nineteenth-Century Households and Consumer Behavior in Wilmington, Delaware

Cited by 34 publications

References 9 publications

Consumer Strategy and Household Consumption in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado, USA

Consumer Strategy and Household Consumption in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado, USA

Consumption and Roman Archaeology: Beyond Pompeii

Building a Framework for Research: Delaware's Management Plan for Historical Archaeological Resources

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