Event Details
Tuesday, Jan 20, 2015
Lecture - The Zooarchaeology of Plantation Foodways
Time: 4:00 pm til 5:00 pm
Location: USF Anthropology, 4202 E Fowler Ave SOC 127, Tampa
Description: Diane Wallman, Ph.D. Utah State University
Candidate for the Faculty position in Southeastern Archaeology
Due to the paucity of first person narratives and accounts, material culture provides one of the only means of accessing localized community practices and lifeways of enslaved laborers on New World plantations. Zooarchaeology, in particular, offers insight into the subsistence strategies and foodway traditions developed within enslaved communities to survive the severe constraints of plantation slavery. In this talk, I present the results of historical archaeological research conducted on a French colonial sugar plantation in Martinique. Through the synthesis of ecological, ethnohistorical, archaeological and faunal data from the site, this research demonstrates how enslaved laborers utilized the plantation and surrounding island landscape to gain relative autonomy over household subsistence and economies. This study represents a single locus of a broad comparative investigation of how enslaved Africans and their descendants negotiated different regimes, diverse plantation structures, and distinct natural environments in the post-Columbian Atlantic World.
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