{"title":"Self-Reliance and Pig Husbandry in Los Angeles Chinatown (1880–1933): New Evidence from Dental Calculus Analysis and Historical Records","authors":"Jiajing Wang, Laura Wai Ng, Tamara Serrao-Leiva","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.79","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study explores the pig-raising practices of Chinese migrants in Los Angeles Chinatown during the Chinese Exclusion Era. Chinese butcher shops sold pork meat, and previous research indicates that they likely sold the more profitable parts outside of Chinatown for additional income while consuming cheaper cuts themselves. Using dental calculus analysis and archival research, this study further explores how Chinatown residents relied on pork to thrive in an anti-Chinese environment. Dental calculus results suggest that Chinese migrants raised their own pigs with food waste and by-products from rice fields; this pork was then sold to meat markets or consumed within the community. The analysis of immigration records indicates that Chinese butcher shops provided employment opportunities as well as housing, banking, and immigration support for Chinese migrants. Pig raising, therefore, not only supplied a source of meat for Chinese migrants but also supported a range of social and financial services for a marginalized group that faced everyday discrimination from dominant society. Overall, this study traces the labor and networks that small businesses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries needed to source and distribute pork, and it highlights how a Chinese diasporic community developed a pork production system to resist racism.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wood in Archaeology. Lee A. Newsom. 2022. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. $110.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-10705-206-2. $29.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-10766-689-5.","authors":"Natalie G. Mueller","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.87","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" 16","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare. Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama and Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz, editors. 2022. University Press of Colorado, Denver; Editorial de la Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia. vi + 300 pp. $75.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64642-099-5.","authors":"Meghan E. Buchanan","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.66","url":null,"abstract":"Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare. Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama and Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz, editors. 2022. University Press of Colorado, Denver; Editorial de la Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia. vi + 300 pp. $75.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64642-099-5.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"2 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Sherds, Vessels, and Pragmatics: Reaction to Feathers","authors":"Michael J. Shott","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.56","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Feathers addresses the dual challenges of inferring original vessel counts from sherds and inference to use life from reconstructed vessels. His solution assumes the validity of sherd assemblages as units of observation that considerable research invalidates and overlooks methods that estimate original vessels from sherds. Feathers also doubts that use life can be inferred for reconstructed vessels. Although not a focus of my article, the larger study from which it derived addresses this matter in detail that strongly warrants vessel size as use-life measure. Of course we must be pragmatic in quantifying pottery assemblages, but first we must identify valid units of observation, and only then attend to pragmatics.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"74 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures. Justin M. Jacobs. 2020. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. vii + 352 pp. $82.50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-226-71196-6. $27.50 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-226-71201-7. $27.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-226-71215-4","authors":"Robert E. Murowchick","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.81","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"2 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America. Timothy R. Pauketat. 2023. Oxford University Press, New York. xvi + 330 pp. $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19764-510-9.","authors":"David A. Freidel","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.80","url":null,"abstract":"Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America. Timothy R. Pauketat. 2023. Oxford University Press, New York. xvi + 330 pp. $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19764-510-9.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"2 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas. J. Grant Stauffer, Bretton T. Giles, and Shawn P. Lambert, editors. 2022. Oxbow Books, Havertown, Pennsylvania. ix + 265 pp. $39.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-78925-844-8.","authors":"Tamira K. Brennan","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.92","url":null,"abstract":"Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas. J. Grant Stauffer, Bretton T. Giles, and Shawn P. Lambert, editors. 2022. Oxbow Books, Havertown, Pennsylvania. ix + 265 pp. $39.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-78925-844-8.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food Provisioning in Complex Societies: Zooarchaeological Perspectives. Levent Atici and Benjamin S. Arbuckle, editors. 2023. University Press of Colorado, Denver. xi + 203 pp. $55.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64642-098-8. $44.00; (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64642-256-2.","authors":"Susan D. deFrance","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.91","url":null,"abstract":"Food Provisioning in Complex Societies: Zooarchaeological Perspectives. Levent Atici and Benjamin S. Arbuckle, editors. 2023. University Press of Colorado, Denver. xi + 203 pp. 44.00; (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64642-256-2.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"489 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136382242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Foodways as Persistence in the Alta California Mission System","authors":"Sarah J. Noe","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.53","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article investigates Indigenous persistence within Mission Santa Clara de Asís in central California through the analysis of animal food remains. The Spanish colonial mission system within Alta California had a profound social and ecological impact on Indigenous peoples, altering traditional subsistence strategies and foodway patterns. Past research has highlighted the continued use of precolonial foods within the Alta California mission system alongside the daily consumption of colonial-style beef stews. This article expands on that literature to consider how Indigenous and colonial residents differentially acquired ingredients and prepared daily meals within the Alta California colonial mission system. This assessment demonstrates a sharp divergence between Indigenous and colonists’ daily diet, manifested in the continued use of wild food resources by Indigenous people as well as the maintenance of precolonial culinary practices in the preparation of cattle meat for daily stews. These findings complicate our understanding of foodways within the Spanish mission system and expand our understanding of Indigenous autonomy within conditions of colonialism.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"91 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life at the Margins of the State: Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds. Alicia M. Boswell and Kyle A. Knabb, editors. 2022. University Press of Colorado, Louisville. xiii + 251 pp. $67.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64642-294-4. $53.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64642-295-1.","authors":"David Pacifico","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.70","url":null,"abstract":"Life at the Margins of the State: Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds. Alicia M. Boswell and Kyle A. Knabb, editors. 2022. University Press of Colorado, Louisville. xiii + 251 pp. 53.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64642-295-1.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135044415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}