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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797451003321

Autore

Warner Mark S.

Titolo

Eating in the side room : food, archaeology, and African American identity / / Mark S. Warner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8130-5139-8

0-8130-5553-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

394.1/2

Soggetti

Food habits - Maryland - Annapolis

Excavations (Archaeology) - Maryland - Annapolis

African Americans - Food - Maryland - Annapolis

African Americans - Material culture - Maryland - Annapolis - History

African Americans - Race identity

Annapolis (Md.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Food, archaeology, and African American identity -- Situating the Maynard and Burgess Families -- Excavating the "other Annapolis" -- The foods they ate -- Food as community: Maynard and Burgess food habits in regional contexts -- African Americans and consumption -- In the "side room": eating with the Maynards and the Burgesses -- Conclusions: meals and their legacies.

Sommario/riassunto

Warner uses the archaeological data on food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, as the point of departure for a broader look at the centrality of material culture in the construction of African identity in America.