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Food and Social Relations at Nina Plantation
Author(s) -
Scott Elizabeth M.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.2001.103.3.671
Subject(s) - emancipation , ethnic group , creole language , zooarchaeology , ethnology , power (physics) , food studies , history , archaeology , geography , sociology , anthropology , political science , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , physics
In this article I use animal food remains from an archaeological plantation site to discuss relations between the groups of people who lived on the plantation. First owned by a French Creole family, Nina Plantation, a sugar and cotton plantation in central Louisiana, was sold in 1857 to an Anglo‐American family from Philadelphia. Comparisons are made among French, Anglo‐American, and African American diets and between pre‐Emancipation and post‐Emancipation African American diets. The evidence demonstrates the relations of power that existed on the plantation as well as the ways in which ethnicity and economic class affected diet, [plantation archaeology, diet, ethnicity, zooarchaeology]