Vecino Economics: Gendered Economy and Micaceous Pottery Consumption in Nineteenth Century Northern New Mexico

Eiselt, B. Sunday; Darling, J. Andrew

doi:10.7183/0002-7316.77.3.424

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“…Archaeological studies undertaken with the latter understanding of the term often examine how people negotiated oppressive social or political situations through their creative use of material culture (Voss 2010). Many such examples are drawn from the relatively recent past, including work on the subversion of racialized access to consumer goods in twentieth-century America (Mullins 1999) or the role of Vecino women in the regional integration of pottery production and consumption in historic-era New Mexico (Eiselt and Darling 2012).…”

Section: Consumption Colonialism and The California Missionsmentioning

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Native American Consumption of Shell and Glass Beads at Mission Santa Clara De Asís

Panich¹

2014

Am. antiq.

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This article uses a consumption framework to examine Native American use of shell and glass beads at the site of Mission Santa Clara de Asís in central California. The analysis considers how indigenous people acquired beads within the mission system as well as the ways in which they integrated diverse types of beads into existing and emergent cultural traditions. Regional archaeological evidence reveals multiple sources of shell beads while the mission's account book offers detailed information regarding the purchase of glass beads by Franciscan missionaries. At Santa Clara, archaeological assemblages from various temporal and spatial contexts demonstrate that native people continued to use shell beads throughout the mission period but also incorporated glass beads into local understandings of status and mourning. Within these general patterns of bead use, the evidence suggests a local preference for white glass beads as well as variation in the use of or access to shell beads across the mission community. These data underscore the localized ways indigenous people made sense of new and familiar items within the constraints of colonialism.

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Section: Consumption Colonialism and The California Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Native American Consumption of Shell and Glass Beads at Mission Santa Clara De Asís

Panich¹

2014

Am. antiq.

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“…Archaeologists can contribute to consumption research because we often study everyday contexts in which consumers negotiate the meaning of objects and dominant influences (Mullins ). Sunday Eiselt and J. Andrew Darling's () analysis of women's work and pottery exchange in the northern Río Grande focuses on the production of distinctive wares for trade. Their study notes how Jicarilla Apache women emerged as specialist producers of cook pots and suppliers of these vessels to Vecino households because of the high mobility of the Apache women and their ability to procure resources.…”

Section: The Role Of the Economymentioning

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Anthropological Archaeology in 2012: Mobility, Economy, and Transformation

Kahn

2013

American Anthropologist

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In 2012, archaeologists continued to grapple with large questions concerning process and structure and how they shaped the nature of humanity. The movement of populations, ideas, and material culture stands out prominently, including mobility's role in promoting social change and how forms of travel and communication, such as pilgrimages or long-distance trade, promoted social interaction. Research concerning the structure of ancient economies acknowledges the amazing diversity within which prehistoric communities organized food production and material goods manufacture and exchange. Social complexity as transformation illustrates how local histories

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“…A variety of ceramic types are associated with post-A.D. 1300 sites, including Uncompahgre Brown ware (commonly associated with Ute occupations); Intermountain ware (Shoshonean); Navajo Gray, Dinetah Gray, and Gobernador Polychrome (Navajo); Biscuit B (Rio Grande Pueblo); and numerous micaceous types (Apachean and Rio Grande Pueblo) (Brunswig et al, eds. 1995;Crosser et al 2008;Eiselt and Darling 2012).…”

Section: Post-ad 1300 Periodmentioning

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High-Altitude Archaeology in the Uncompahgre Wilderness: Archaeological Investigations During 2010 at the Uncompahgre Cirque Site, Hinsdale County, Colorado

Mitchell¹

2012

PCRG Research Contributions

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In 2010, Paleocultural Research Group and the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests jointly carried out an archaeological assessment of the Uncompahgre Cirque site (5HN1098), an extensive quarry workshop located high on the east flank of Uncompahgre Peak. Funding for the project was provided by the Forest Service and History Colorado's State Historical Fund. The site, located at an elevation of 3,840 m, consists of a dense scatter of flaking debris and chipped stone tools covering 1.15 ha (2.8 ac). Artifacts are scattered throughout this area but are visible primarily in four concentrations. The 2010 effort focused on the largest and densest of the four, designated Locus 1. Archaeological fieldwork in Locus 1 included smallscale hand excavation, intensive surface mapping, and targeted surface collection. The research team also surveyed a small portion of the valley adjacent to Uncompahgre Cirque. Subsequent laboratory analyses of recovered artifacts included minimum analytical nodule analysis of surface-collected debris aggregates; individual flake analysis and mass analysis of excavated flaking debris; technological analysis of stone tools; and compositional and hydration analysis of obsidian artifacts. Multiple lines of evidence together indicate that the site was occupied briefly between about 5900 and 5700 calendar years ago. All four radiocarbon dates from the site are statistically equivalent, yielding a weighted mean age of 5038±19 14 C yr B.P. This mean age spans at two standard deviations the period from 3944 cal B.C. to 3776 cal B.C., or a total of 168 calendar years. Obsidian artifact hydration rim thickness distributions point to a brief occupation or short series of brief occupations within this period. Stratigraphic data bolster the inference that the occupation at Uncompahgre Cirque was brief. Artifacts primarily occur in a single zone near the base of a prominent paleosol. The presence of well-defined chipped stone features primarily representing the reduction of individual raw material nodules testifies to the remarkable integrity of the site's cultural deposits. The principal activity at Uncompahgre Cirque was reduction of chert nodules quarried on the high, narrow ridge immediately north of the site. Blanks prepared for off-site transport and use include large flakes, multi-directional cores, and both early-and late-stage bifaces. Flint knappers at Uncompahgre Cirque also manufactured a variety of tools for on-site use in hide processing, woodworking, animal butchery, or other tasks. These include expedient flake tools as well as patterned end scrapers and bifaces. Some of the tools produced from local stone for on-site use were made from heat-treated flakes or nodules. A notable feature of the workshop is the presence of cores, tools, and flaking debris made from imported raw materials, including obsidian from northern New Mexico and quartzite, chert, and possibly other materials likely from the Gunnison basin and central Colorado. The diversity of imported raw materials sugge...

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Vecino Economics: Gendered Economy and Micaceous Pottery Consumption in Nineteenth Century Northern New Mexico

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Native American Consumption of Shell and Glass Beads at Mission Santa Clara De Asís

Native American Consumption of Shell and Glass Beads at Mission Santa Clara De Asís

Anthropological Archaeology in 2012: Mobility, Economy, and Transformation

High-Altitude Archaeology in the Uncompahgre Wilderness: Archaeological Investigations During 2010 at the Uncompahgre Cirque Site, Hinsdale County, Colorado

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