Eating in the side room
Subtitle: food, archaeology, and African American identity
By: Mark S. Warner
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780813061115
Subjects: Material culture; Maynard-Burgess House (Annapolis, Md.); Race identity; Food; Food habits; Excavations (Archaeology); African Americans; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Food, archaeology, and African American identity; title: Situating the Maynard and Burgess Families; title: Excavating the "other Annapolis"; title: The foods they ate; title: Food as community: Maynard and Burgess food habits in regional contexts; title: African Americans and consumption; title: In the "side room": eating with the Maynards and the Burgesses; title: Conclusions: meals and their legacies.