Setting the Table (eBook)

Ceramics, Dining, and Cultural Exchange in Andalucía and La Florida

Kathryn L. Ness (Autor)

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2016
144 Seiten
University of Florida Press (Verlag)
978-1-68340-014-1 (ISBN)

Infos

"A long-needed comparison between Spanish and Spanish colonial sites, showing how both inform us about Spanish identity at home and abroad."--Charles R. Ewen, coeditor of Pieces of Eight: More Archaeology of Piracy







"The first systematic attempt to consider the eighteenth-century archaeological record in Spain and measure it against the decades-long research in St. Augustine. It is long overdue and valuable."--Russell K. Skowronek, coauthor of Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California: Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain

Examining ceramics from eighteenth-century household sites in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, and St. Augustine, Florida, Setting the Table opens up new interpretations of cultural exchange, change, and identity in the early modern Spanish empire. This trans-Atlantic perspective sheds light on the largely underrepresented connections between the Spanish Empire and its Atlantic territories as well as the ways that Spanish and Spanish American culture came together to create something new and distinct.

To analyze and compare tableware from these far-removed locations, Kathryn Ness proposes and employs a new vessel-based classification system to bridge the differences between existing systems. Her findings show that on both sides of the Atlantic, similar major changes to dining practices and foodways developed at almost the same time. Ness argues that the people of Spain and the Spanish Americas influenced each other, reinterpreting and incorporating new ideas that reflected traditional Spanish culture while also assimilating French fashions, such as matching ceramics, and British items, such as tea. They were creating and expressing a distinct Spanish Atlantic identity that retained some traditions from the home country while welcoming new ideas from an increasingly global network.

A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Autor

Kathryn L. Ness is curator of collections at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Atlantic World • Bourbon dynasty • Casta • Caste System • Ceramic Organization in the Spanish Atlantic • Ceramics • Colonialism • COSA • Dining • Don Quixote • Eighteenth Century • Emigration • Florida • food preparation • Foodways • French culinary techniques • Globalization • Historical Archaeology • Household • hygiene vessels • Identity • Jerez de la Frontera • Kathryn Ness • Limpieza de sangre • pure blood • Setting the Table • Spain • Spanish America • spanish american • Spanish colonial empire • Spanish Florida • Tableware
• ISBN-10: 1-68340-014-3 / 1683400143
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68340-014-1 / 9781683400141