The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives

Introduction: The Material Lives of Individual People 1. Material Expressions of French Identity on the Edge of Empire at Eighteenth-Century Fort St. Joseph, Michael Nassaney and José António Brandão 2. Mission Santa Catalina's Mondadiente de Plata: The Intersection of Personal Hygiene and Identity Formation in Spanish Colonial Georgia, Jessica Striebel MacLean 3. Single Shoes and Individual Lives: Working Class Bostonians and The Mill Creek Shoe Project, Carolyn L. White 4. Microhistories and Madames in Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans, Shannon Lee Dawdy 5. Working Out Their Differences in the 17th-Century Chesapeake, Julia A. King 6. Material Manipulations: Beads and Cloth in the French Colonies, Diana DePaolo Loren 7. Consuming Individuality: Collective Identity along the Color Line, Paul R. Mullins 8. Beyond Consumption: Character Ideals, Social Relationships, and Material Culture in the Shaping of Identity, Christa M. Beranek 9. Bodkin Biographies, Mary C. Beaudry 10. Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in 19th-century Hawaii, Peter R. Mills 11. Connecting Past Individuals: The Buicchi Brothers, Nigel Jeffries 12. Widow Pratt's Possessions: Archaeology of a Newport, Rhode Island, Household, ca. 1720-1750, Christina J. Hodge 13. Thinking About Individual Lives, Rebecca Yamin