| The Materiality of Individuality | 2 |
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| Contents | 5 |
| Contributors | 7 |
| Introduction: Objects, Scale, and Identity Entangled | 9 |
| Identity and Historical Archaeology | 11 |
| Individual Lives | 13 |
| Entangled/Untangled Lives | 14 |
| Corporeality | 15 |
| Daily Practices, Episodic Events, and Social Networks | 16 |
| Particular People | 17 |
| Articulation with Broader Patterns | 19 |
| References | 20 |
| The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph: An Eighteenth-Century Mission-Garrison-Trading Post Complex on the Edge | 24 |
| Introduction | 24 |
| Individuality, Identity, and Archaeological Agents | 25 |
| The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph | 29 |
| Further Implications of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Collections | 33 |
| Summary and Conclusions | 37 |
| References | 38 |
| People in Objects: Individuality and the Quotidian in the Material Culture of War | 42 |
| People in Landscapes/Landscapes in People | 45 |
| Ambiguous Components | 46 |
| Natural Worlds | 51 |
| The Compression and Unwinding of Time | 54 |
| Individual and Society | 57 |
| References | 59 |
| A Biography of a Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle: The Biucchi Brothers and the Ticinese Community in Nineteenth-Century London | 61 |
| Introduction | 61 |
| A Stoneware Bottle: Archaeological Histories, 1990–2004 | 61 |
| Clerkenwell’s Little Italy: A Neighborhood History, 1850–1902 | 64 |
| The Biucchi Brothers: Second-Generation Immigrant Histories, 1890–1938 | 65 |
| Family and Ticinese and Italian Connections: Kin and Origin | 68 |
| Observing London’s Mineral Water Trade | 69 |
| Archaeological Perspectives | 72 |
| The Past Meets the Present: Tony Buicchi | 73 |
| Conclusion: Tangibility in Historical Archaeology | 75 |
| References | 76 |
| Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in Nineteenth-C | 79 |
| Introduction | 79 |
| Architectural Lime as a Material of Individuality | 80 |
| The Inception of Architectural Lime in Hawaii (1798–1819) | 81 |
| The Early Missionary Era (1820–1830s) | 82 |
| Lime in the “Great Awakening” (1830s–1850) | 86 |
| Lime in the Second Half of the 19th Century | 89 |
| Conclusions | 90 |
| References | 92 |
| Bodkin Biographies | 97 |
| References | 107 |
| Material Manipulations: Beads and Cloth in the French Colonies | 111 |
| Introduction | 111 |
| Materiality of Colonialism | 112 |
| Tangible Materials | 114 |
| Beads | 114 |
| Cloth and Deerskin | 116 |
| Combinations and Constructions: Cloth, Hide, Glass, and Shell on the Body | 118 |
| Conclusions | 122 |
| References | 123 |
| Mission Santa Catalina’s Mondadiente de Plata (Silver Toothpick): Materiality and the Construction of Self in Spanish La Florid | 127 |
| The Individual | 130 |
| The Toothpick: Personal Hygiene and Adornment | 131 |
| The Toothpick: In History and Archaeology | 134 |
| Negotiating Identity in the New World: The Hidalgo and Criollo | 137 |
| References | 139 |
| Single Shoes and Individual Lives: The Mill Creek Shoe Project | 142 |
| Shoes and Individuals | 142 |
| Shoes and Historical Archaeology | 143 |
| The Mill Creek Shoe Project | 143 |
| The Mill Creek Shoe Assemblage | 144 |
| Three Styles | 145 |
| Wear, Repair, Form, and Individuality | 148 |
| Wear | 149 |
| Presence and Absence of Repair | 151 |
| Layers of Individuality | 153 |
| The Mill Creek Shoe Assemblage and Layers of Individuality | 153 |
| Faces in the Crowd: Three Shoes | 154 |
| Life I: Child | 154 |
| Life II: Man or Woman | 155 |
| Life III: Woman | 156 |
| Three Lives = A Community? | 157 |
| The Mill Creek Assemblage | 158 |
| References | 159 |
| Beyond Consumption: Social Relationships, Material Culture, and Identity | 162 |
| Family Background | 163 |
| The Changing Meaning of the Individual | 164 |
| Late Eighteenth-Century Self-Fashioning | 166 |
| Culture Brokers | 167 |
| Archaeology at the Tyng Property | 169 |
| Disjunctures | 170 |
| Dress and Politics | 176 |
| Conclusion | 179 |
| References | 180 |
| Widow Pratt’s Possessions: Individuality and Georgianization in Newport, Rhode Island | 183 |
| Introduction | 183 |
| Widow Elizabeth Pratt of Newport | 183 |
| The Individuality of Materiality | 184 |
| Evidence | 186 |
| History and Biography | 186 |
| Archaeology | 188 |
| Material Practices | 189 |
| Retail | 190 |
| Dining | 192 |
| Drinking | 194 |
| Reflections | 197 |
| References | 199 |
| Consuming Individuality: Collective Identity Along the Color Line | 204 |
| Racialized Individuality | 214 |
| References | 215 |
| Index | 217 |