Hi Sue, glad to hear from you - your email in the SHA member database is
wrong, so you might want to fix that.

Springer has asked for a 2nd edition of the Consumer Choice in Historical
Archaeology volume. Would you be interested in updating your chapter,
starting by giving a paper in the SHA session I'm organizing entitled:
Revisiting the Multiple Meanings of Consumer Choice: 25 years later.

I think our papers in the session, and updated chapters, need to highlight
how the archaeological data contributes important new and different
information from the documentary data, since Leone and Crosby's Epilogue in
the book claimed we didn't do this, although many of us did - perhaps in
your paper this just needs to be emphasized more, since your archaeological
data clearly provides new information beyond documents, both about ethnic
foodways and about the main method of status display being teas rather than
dinners. This seems to be the case generally in towns and cities. I think
you could also talk about how your faunal data expresses ethnic identity.
The dominance of beef and secondarily mutton for the Euro-Americans fits
perfectly with English high status household meat preferences. The greater
preference for pork among Mexican-Americans may also be cultural, I don't
know. The higher correlation of teaware and status fits with the urban
display of status in teas, which were usually organized and served by women
among Anglo-Americans. I imagine Spanish-American (Mexican) also had the
tradition of women controlling the tea ceremony, since it was brought to
England in 1662 by Catherine of Braganza. who married King Charles II. The
other thing I think would be interesting if you could consider is what
difference gender makes- if housewives were usually buying food, tableware
and other items for the family as histories indicate, what light does this
shed on the consumer choices? For starters, it means that ceramic
manufacturers were making designs to appeal to women - floral designs that
symbolize women's closeness to nature and God, and the white ironstone
symbolizing women's supposedly innate purity and piety and the sanctity of
the home in the cults of domesticity and home religion (I have publications
talking about this, and Wall talks about the white panelled ironstone). I
know in the 19th century housewives were often given limited weekly
allowances by their husbands to buy food, etc for the family. The strong
patriarchy among hispanics could very well result in a similar system. the
19th century working-class housewives in England often starved themselves
because their household allowances did not increase with the number of
children. And Mullins found that many African-American households had
second-hand old ceramics.

I don't think you need to add to your data, which I think are quite
adequate. But Springer wants 30% new material for the 2nd edition, and I
think that some of the frameworks that have developed over the last 25 years
could provide new insights, particularly ethnic identity in foodways, and
gender. Do you have other ideas for updating?

Are you interested in presenting a paper in my session to start with and
then updating your chapter for the 2nd edition? Your chapter was a terrific
contribution to the first edition and I want to have it in the 2nd edition
too. Your discussion of the many different factors involved in consumer
choice needs to be included and perhaps expanded. the new language of the
meanings of consumer choice would also be useful to talk about for the
symbolic meanings of decorative types, etc.
Hope to hear from you soon,
suzanne

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