BookID 142619_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 05/08/2009 The Materiality of Individuality BookID 142619_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 05/08/2009 Carolyn L. White Editor The Materiality of Individuality Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives BookID 142619_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 05/08/2009 BookID 142619_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 05/08/2009 Editor Carolyn L. White Anthropology Department University of Nevada-Reno 1664 N. Virginia Street Reno NV 89557-0096 USA [email protected] ISBN 978-1-4419-0497-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0498-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0498-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009926037 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) BookID 142619_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 05/08/2009 Contents Introduction Introduction: Objects, Scale, and Identity Entangled ................................ 3 Carolyn L. White Part I: Individuality in Collective Spaces The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph: An Eighteenth-Century Mission-Garrison-Trading Post Complex on the Edge of Empire ........................................................... 19 Michael Shakir Nassaney and José Antonió Brandão People in Objects: Individuality and the Quotidian in the Material Culture of War ..................................................................... 37 Nicholas J. Saunders A Biography of a Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle: The Biucchi Brothers and the Ticinese Community in Nineteenth-Century London ..................................................................... 57 Nigel Jeffries Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii ......................... 75 Peter R. Mills Part II: The Lens of Personal Objects Bodkin Biographies ........................................................................................ 95 Mary C. Beaudry v BookID 142619_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 05/08/2009 BookID 142619_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 05/08/2009 vi Contents Material Manipulations: Beads and Cloth in the French Colonies ................................................................................... 109 Diana DiPaolo Loren Mission Santa Catalina’s Mondadiente de Plata (Silver Toothpick): Materiality and the Construction of Self in Spanish La Florida......................................................................... 125 Jessica Striebel MacLean Single Shoes and Individual Lives: The Mill Creek Shoe Project ............. 141 Carolyn L. White Part III: Personal Impacts: Seeing Sites through the Individual Beyond Consumption: Social Relationships, Material Culture, and Identity ..................................................................... 163 Christa M. Beranek Widow Pratt’s Possessions: Individuality and Georgianization in Newport, Rhode Island .......................................... 185 Christina J. Hodge Consuming Individuality: Collective Identity Along the Color Line ..................................................................................... 207 Paul R. Mullins Index ................................................................................................................ 221 BookID 142619_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 05/08/2009 Contributors Christa M. Beranek University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA Mary C. Beaudry Boston University, Boston, MA, USA José Antonió Brandão Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA Christina J. Hodge Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Boston, MA USA Nigel Jeffries Museum of London Archaeological Services, London, UK Diana DiPaolo Loren Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA Jessica Striebel MacLean Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Peter R. Mills University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI, USA Paul R. Mullins Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, USA Michael Shakir Nassaney Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA Nicholas J. Saunders University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Carolyn L. White University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV, USA vii
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