“Several paradise ladies are visiting in town”: Gender strategies in the early industrial west

Purser, Margaret

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“…Archaeological studies of prostitution, a social and economic institution of the 19th-century American city (Seifert 2005, p. 1), serve as reminders of boomtown entrepreneurs capitalizing on the bachelor communities associated with extractive industrial communities (Meyer et al 2005;Purser 1991;Spude 2005). Given the prevalence of the American West's bachelor communities and the relative dearth of masculinity research in anthropologies of gender (Gutmann 1997), studies of masculinity are integral to understanding the nuances of gender roles in communities associated with military activities, extractive industries, and other pursuits in the region, including fraternities (Wilkie 2010).…”

Section: Industrial Capitalism: An Intersection Of Transportation Exmentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical Archaeologies of the American West

Dixon

2014

J Archaeol Res

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Historical archaeology in western North America includes a vast collection of research that underscores the region's dynamic cultural heritage. Here, I review a sample of the literature related to this research and organize them into four conceptual themes: colonialism and postcolonialism, landscape transformation, migration and diaspora, and industrial capitalism. I conclude that the future of historical archaeology in the West will be grounded in research that integrates these themes. As the region continues to experience human dilemmas related to issues such as balancing resource extraction with sustainable conservation and lingering issues of colonialism, these archaeologies have value for transcending the natureculture divide and for understanding the ways in which humanity can navigate pressing issues relevant to our modern world, including vulnerability, risks, adaptation, resilience, and sustainability.

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Section: Industrial Capitalism: An Intersection Of Transportation Exmentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical Archaeologies of the American West

Dixon

2014

J Archaeol Res

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“…) bottles, has been shown to be an effective method of tracking the movement of consumers across cityscapes (for an example using GIS, see Poulsen 2011; cf. Bonasera and Raymer 2001) and could be used to study smaller communities such as Helvetia (Purser 1992a).…”

Section: Shared Food Tasks and Procurement Sources For The William Crmentioning

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“…Documents suited to this type of inquiry include census records, maps and atlases, business directories, store accounts and ledgers, society sections in local newspapers, advertisements, and other forms of print media (Purser 1991(Purser , 1992aMullins 2008;Johnson 2010;Poulsen 2011;Pipes and Janowitz, this volume). Certain commercial within a community, as well as the ways in which people perceive and construct identity and place (see also Beaudry and Parno 2013 for non-spatial approaches to movement and mobility in archaeology).…”

Section: Visualizing Foodways and Food Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Historical archaeologists can also trace food connections using written records specific to the community (Purser 1991(Purser , 1992a. Documents suited to this type of inquiry include census records, maps and atlases, business directories, store accounts and ledgers, society sections in local newspapers, advertisements, and other forms of print media (Purser 1991(Purser , 1992aMullins 2008;Johnson 2010;Poulsen 2011;Pipes and Janowitz, this volume).…”

Section: Visualizing Foodways and Food Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Modeling Communities through Food: Connecting the Daily Meal to the Construction of Place and Identity

Metheny¹

2013

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“…The largest body of work on gender issues of the nineteenth century undoubtedly originates in the United States with extensive studies undertaken in both urban (Spencer-Wood 1996Wall 1994Wall , 2000 and rural (Lewis 2003;Purser 1991Purser , 1997 settings. Much of the early research assumes the private female and public male spheres, separated on the basis of biological sex (Wilkie and Hayes 2006:245).…”

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A Woman's Place... An historical archaeological investigation of identity and power on the nineteenth-century pastoral landscape of south east Queensland

Terry¹

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An individual's perception of their place is integral to the complex processes of identity development and maintenance. These processes are highly contextual and occur in a dynamic landscape where power is a defining factor. In this thesis, using two case studies, I employ a micro-scalar approach to demonstrate that the identity of middle-class women living on pastoral properties in south east Queensland, Australia, in the nineteenth century was inseparable from the relational power of both their cultural landscape and the natural environment. The conceptual framework takes a multi-disciplinary theoretical approach to the fusing of identity, landscape and agency within an interpretive historical archaeological methodology. This provides a fresh perspective to the individual's perception of place by emphasising the reciprocity of the human-landscape interaction and demonstrating that either can be the agent instigating social change.Within their specific historical context, which approximately spanned the Long Victorian period, the 'place' of the subjects of the case studies, Isabella Joyner Griffin and Katharine Somerset, is examined. This is a period when, in line with the western paradigm of separate spheres, 'place' is a concept considered to be highly gendered, with 'a woman's place' assumed to be in the home where she was subservient to her father or husband within the confines of a patriarchal society. In the Australian context, the few historical archaeological studies of middle-class women that have been conducted have tended to focus on the performance of gentility with an assumption of gender as the central characteristic of their identity. The methodology used in this thesis makes it possible to look beyond the social mores of Victorian gentility and to situate these women within the specifics of their particular historical contexts and to examine the relevance of this to their identities.The archaeological evidence and historical data in these case histories engenders what has previously been considered a 'male' industry conducted in a harsh 'male' environment where tough men were determined to overpower and subdue 'mother nature'. Through the use of a feminist inclusive model, as developed by Spencer-Wood (2010a), I establish that 'a woman's place' is a term that is infused with power and that Isabella Joyner Griffin and Katharine Somerset inhabited a landscape where both within the family and the wider community there was a complex, relational power structure. By demonstrating the heterarchical nature of the relationship that the individuals involved in the pastoral industry had with each other and with their landscape, it is apparent that even within the assumed rigid ii requirements of Victorian middle-class society, on a pastoral property the place of an individual was determined by a suite of factors of which gender was only one.The place of individuals of any gender is determined by skills and relationships that result from the cross cutting of all the facets of their identity within t...

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“Several paradise ladies are visiting in town”: Gender strategies in the early industrial west

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Historical Archaeologies of the American West

Historical Archaeologies of the American West

Modeling Communities through Food: Connecting the Daily Meal to the Construction of Place and Identity

A Woman's Place... An historical archaeological investigation of identity and power on the nineteenth-century pastoral landscape of south east Queensland

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