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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Mark S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maynard-Burgess House (Annapolis, Md.).

Food habits--Maryland--Annapolis.

Food habits.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Maryland--Annapolis.

Excavations (Archaeology).

African Americans--Food--Maryland--Annapolis.

African Americans.

African Americans--Material culture--Maryland--Annapolis--History.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans--Material culture.

History.

Food.

Annapolis (Md.)--History.

Annapolis (Md.).

Maryland--Annapolis.

Maryland.

Physical Description:

xii, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-179) and index.

ISBN:

9780813061115

0813061113

OCLC:

904861141