Waitui Kei Vanua: Interpreting Sea- and Land-Based Foodways in Fiji

Jones, Sharyn; Quinn, Rhonda L.

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“…Ethnography provides archaeologists a means of looking beyond the economics of subsistence (faunal analysis) to investigate the intrinsic relationship between the economic and social paradigms surrounding food and subsistence in the past (e.g., Weisler and McNiven 2015). With regards to Pacific Island zooarchaeology, Jones has produced some of the most comprehensive and focused ethnoarchaeological studies, which evaluate social issues related to foodways, hierarchy, and identity in Pacific prehistory, primarily in Hawai'i and Fiji (e.g., Jones O'Day 2001Jones 2007Jones , 2009Jones and Kirch 2007;Jones and Quinn 2010). This research has specifically targeted changes in marine diversity, population declines, and size changes in exploited species, and has directly linked this research to global themes of climate change and overfishing to provide long-term data for conservation and management regimes.…”

Section: Metric Reconstructions Sustainability and Resource Depressionmentioning

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Pacific Islands Ichthyoarchaeology: Implications for the Development of Prehistoric Fishing Studies and Global Sustainability

Lambrides

Weisler

2016

J Archaeol Res

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The Pacific Islands-consisting of culturally diverse Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia-is the ideal region to investigate the development of prehistoric fishing studies, as nowhere else on Earth is there such environmental contrasts among island types and their marine environments. We review the ichthyoarchaeological literature for the Pacific and assess developments in recovery methods, reference collections, taxonomic identifications, quantification, taphonomy and site-formation processes, ethnoarchaeology, approaches to diet and subsistence reconstructions, sustainability, and the importance of applied zooarchaeology for fisheries management and conservation. Ichthyoarchaeologists are beginning to work more closely with resource managers, fisheries biologists, policy makers, and indigenous communities to produce holistic studies of conservation management, resource sustainability, and assessments of human impacts on marine ecosystems over centuries to millennial time scales.

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Section: Metric Reconstructions Sustainability and Resource Depressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pacific Islands Ichthyoarchaeology: Implications for the Development of Prehistoric Fishing Studies and Global Sustainability

Lambrides

Weisler

2016

J Archaeol Res

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Zooarchaeology of Foodways

Peres

2023

SpringerBriefs in Archaeology

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Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation

Graff

2017

J Archaeol Res

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Foodways have been a component of archaeological research for decades. However, cooking and food preparation, as specific acts that could reveal social information about life beyond the kitchen, only became a focus of archaeological inquiry more recently. A review of the literature on cooking and food preparation reveals a shift from previous studies on subsistence strategies, consumption, and feasting. The new research is different because of the social questions that are asked, the change in focus to preparation and production rather than consumption, and the interest in highlighting marginalized people and their daily experiences. The theoretical perspectives the literature addresses revolve around practice, agency, and gender. As a result, this new focus of archaeological research on cooking and preparing food is grounded in anthropology.

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Waitui Kei Vanua: Interpreting Sea- and Land-Based Foodways in Fiji

Cited by 4 publications

References 54 publications

Pacific Islands Ichthyoarchaeology: Implications for the Development of Prehistoric Fishing Studies and Global Sustainability

Pacific Islands Ichthyoarchaeology: Implications for the Development of Prehistoric Fishing Studies and Global Sustainability

Zooarchaeology of Foodways

Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation

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