1.  Acculturation  Creolization  Transculturation

2.  What is the link between body and identity? › How does your body influence who you think you are? › How does who you think you are help shape your body?

3.  The body as ‘project’: reflects an individual identity › Related to conditions of high modernity › The body is one of the last arenas open to control › That control is far from absolute: disease, reproduction 3

4. 4 Running: 90 mins Bathing: 20 mins Hair:20 mins Food prep:90 mins Eating:90 mins Teeth:10 mins Other:30 mins ~ 6 hours

5.  An embodied body represents a lived experience › Natural, social, cultural and physical phenomena are “brought to fruition” through the use of extural objects  How we experience the world through our bodies with material culture

6.  material culture has a variety of social meanings and uses  Material culture imbued with symbolic, cognitive and functional meanings

7.  Representation › 2d & 3d modelings of bodies (which carry with them social constructs of the body)  Residues of daily life › Activity areas  Extension › Tools & objects used by the body to the extend the use of one’s body

8.  What types of material culture might be able to tell us something about the body? What can they tell us?  How might you know if something was a male or female object in our culture?

10.  Why do we do historical archaeology? › Not all history was written down  What do historical archaeologists study? › Time period = generally post 1500 › Cultures = usually Euro-based cultures and those that encountered Euro-based cultures  Colonialism › Sites = anything you can think of

11. Dishes & Plates Bowls Serving Vessels Etc.

12. Ironstone Very Inexpensive and utilitarian Often used in Hotels because it is very sturdy Usually undecorated with just a white glaze

13. Shell Edged Whiteware Inexpensive and very common - everyday sort of item Either Blue or Green design but all basically the same Design is simple

14. Hand Painted Porcelain Fanciest Designs are more individual – different artists

17. ToothbrushesMedicine Bottles Cosmetics Jar

21.  Late 18 th to Early 19 th century  Domestic (house) site  Lincoln, Rhode Island  Site name from current landowners – not related to original unknown inhabitants