Explore additional content related to Micaceous Bean Pots and Connections to the Hispanic New Mexican Homeland, the December 1, 2020, Archaeology Café Online presentation by Shannon Cowell and Kelly Jenks.
Overview
PDF Download: Cowell, Shannon and Jenks, Kelly (2020). Beloved Things: Interpreting Curated Pottery in Diasporic Contexts. In International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
Los Ojitos
Webpage: Archaeology at Los Ojitos
Webpage: Exploring Gender, Trade, and Heirloom Micaceous Ceramics at Los Ojitos, New Mexico
PDF Download: Prehistoric Rock Art and Historic Graffiti
Hispanic New Mexico
Anaya, R. (2020). Querencia: Mi Patria Chica. In Fonseca-Chávez, V., Romero, L. and Herrera, S. R. (eds.), Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, pp. xiii–xxii.
Cabeza de Baca Gilbert, F. (1982 [1949]). The Good Life: New Mexico Traditions and Food. Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe.
Cabeza de Baca Gilbert, F. (2013 [1931]). Historic Cookery. Gibbs Smith, Layton, Utah.
Clark, B. J. (2005). Lived Ethnicity: Archaeology and Identity in Mexicano America. World Archaeology 37(3):440–452.
Deutsch, S. (1987). No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880–1940. Oxford University Press, New York.
García, N. (2001 [1999]). Brujas, Bultos, y Brasas: Tales of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the Pecos Valley. Western Edge Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jaramillo, C. M. (2008). New Mexico Tasty Recipes, with Additional Materials on Traditional Hispano Food. Gibbs Smith, Layton, Utah.
Mora, A. P. (2011). Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848–1912. Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
Nieto-Phillips, J. M. (2004). The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s–1930s. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Rebolledo, T. D., Márquez, M. T. and United States Work Projects Administration (N.M.). (2000). Women’s Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie. Arte Público Press, Houston.
Rodríguez, S. (2017). History, Memory, and Querencia. In Mills, B. J. and Fowles, S. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 193–205.
Rubio-Goldsmith, R. (1994). Seasons, Seeds, and Souls: Mexican Women Gardening in American Mesilla, 1900–1940. In Fowler-Salamini, H. and Vaughan, M. K. (eds.), Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 140–158.
Rubio-Goldsmith, R. (1998). Civilizations, Barbarism, and Norteña Gardens. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
PDF Download: Jenks, Kelly (2017). Becoming Vecinos: Civic Identities in Late Colonial New Mexico. In Douglass, J. G. and Graves, W. M. (eds.), New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest. University Press of Colorado, pp. 213-238.
Magazine: Archaeology Southwest Magazine, Vol. 29, Nos. 2 & 3, Santa Fe Undergound. (Free PDF download for members of Archaeology Southwest)
Micaceous Pottery
Anderson, D. (1999). All That Glitters: The Emergence of Native American Micaceous Art Pottery in Northern New Mexico. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM.
Carrillo, C. M. (1997). Hispanic New Mexican Pottery: Evidence of Craft Specialization 1790-1890. LPD Press, Albuquerque.
Eiselt, B. S. and Darling, J. A. (2012). Vecino Economics: Gendered Economy and Micaceous Pottery Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Northern New Mexico. American Antiquity 77(3):424–448.
Webpage: Micaceous Pottery of Northern New Mexico
Video: Spanish Colonial Art & Artists | Debbie Carrillo & Camilla Trujillo | Micaceous Pottery
Video: Bean Pot Demo with Therese Tohtsoni-Prudencio of Picuris Pueblo
Cuisine
Crown, P. L. (2000). Women’s Role in Changing Cuisine. In Crown, P. L. (eds.), Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, School of American Research, Santa Fe, pp. 221–266.
Holtzman, J. D. (2006). Food and Memory. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:361–378.
Webpage: Can Archaeology Explain the Bread Baking Craze?
Webpage: Cornbread. Now, more than ever.
Webpage: The Evolution of Comfort Food
Webpage: A Brief History of Comfort Food
Webpage: Cooking as Coping: How to Grapple With Grief During the Holiday Season
Heirlooms
Holmes, H. (2018). Material Affinities: ‘Doing’ Family through the Practices of Passing On. Sociology 53(1):174–191.
Lillios, K. T. (1999). Objects of Memory: The Ethnography and Archaeology of Heirlooms. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 6:235–262.
Moussouri, T. and Vomvyla, E. (2015). Conversations about Home, Community, and Identity. Archaeology International 18:97–112.
Naum, M. (2012). Ambiguous Pots: Everyday Practice, Migration, and Materiality. The Case of Medieval Baltic Ware on the Island of Bornholm (Denmark). Journal of Social Archaeology 12(1):92–119.
Parkin, D. (1999). Mementoes as Transitional Objects in Human Displacement. Journal of Material Culture 4(3):303–320.
Petridou, E. (2001). The Taste of Home. In Miller, D. (eds.), Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors, Berg, Oxford, pp. 87–104.
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