...Tatiana Argounova-Low This article investigates the concept of black food among the Lake Yessei Yakut in Siberia. With reference to two sources, archival records from the Russian Polar North Census of 1926–27 and contemporary fieldwork material, I investigate the local diet based on subsistence...

... that are experimenting with new community gardens and other innovative responses to rapid ecological, climatic, and socioeconomic change. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska: Food System Innovation and the Alaska Native Gardens of the 1930s through the 1970s Philip...

...Shannon Lee Dawdy Using new archaeological data and colonial narratives, I reconstruct the menu of French colonial Louisiana with the aim of showing how the sensual and social experience of eating relates to the political rationalities of colonialism. In Louisiana, food practices enunciated...

... to the history of early America. No group was able to use food to flex its power more effectively than the American Indians, and revealing their dominant role is the biggest payoff of the book. In early America “the threat of hunger and the inability to impose English claims to authority on native groups...

...Alan G. Shackelford Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780–1882 . By Colpitts George . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . xii + 303 pp., list of figures, acknowledgments, introduction, conclusion, glossary, bibliography...

...Jennifer Siegler Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture . By Elizabeth Morán . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . vii+142 pp., acknowledgments, preface, introduction, epilogue, appendix, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) Copyright 2019...

...Coll Thrush Food is fundamental. As Felipe Fernández-Armesto has written, food “has a good claim to be considered the world's most important subject. It is what matters most to most people for most of the time” ( Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food [New York, 2002], ix). We are what we eat...

..., and Michaelsen 1994; Milliken 1995; Sandos 1991, 1998, 2004). The ecological hypothesis is one of many explanations offered. Advocates of this hypothesis maintain that environmental push factors such as drought, depletion of native food sources by the grazing of livestock, and environmental changes induced...

... are considered within the broader context of the changing cultural uses and meanings of New World food products during European expansion in the Americas. American Society for Ethnohistory 2005 Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth- and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala Martha Few...

... they included an overabundance of wheat flour, sugar, salt, and lard that resulted in diet-related ailments such as diabetes, obesity, and tooth decay; or the amount of food was inadequate, and natives suffered from malnutrition. Using testimonies of early explorers and elderly residents of 1930s Oklahoma who...

... a trade in foodstuffs is weak and that Comanches employed alternative nutritional strategies, including consuming and storing a wide range of wild plants. Prestige and utilitarian goods such as metal tools and weapons, firearms, and items of personal adornment—not food—were the primary motivation...

... traditional foodways in the wake of colonialism. Copyright 2021 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2021 Indigenous corn Oneida Works Progress Administration food sovereignty Corn played a significant and historical role in the lives of many Indigenous people throughout the Americas...

... to counter the authority of masters and regulate their own labor in opposition to authority. Moreover, if food was central to the performance of bourgeois ideals, procurement of food while traveling as well as at the trade posts was also a pivotal point for the voyageurs’ performance of ideals...

... if infrastructural conditions such as the maintenance of food supplies and protection of civilians could not be satisfied. These changes cannot be understood as a simple mimicry of the colonizer’s practices. Instead, they involved an important degree of local native agency (Ferris, Harrison, and Wilcox 2014...

... gather in their home villages for a break from food gather- ing and migratory labor. The rapid depletion of the Tsimshian population at Fort Simpson in 1862, while calamitous in many ways, also created opportunities for those who remained. Clah was then thirty-one years old and an ambitious man...

... effort, time, and resources into ensuring that the caged animals survived the journey, the animals’ usefulness to the study of natural history in Spain did not end if they happened to die en route. Finally, the caged jaguar and eagle also both ate the same foods: “the entrails of sheep” as well...

... captain) and his party insisted on coming on board the ship. Maguire took the man and his wife to his cabin, where he offered them food and tobacco. In all, about seventy Iñupiats were admitted on deck. Uneasy about the intent...

... their property have been elaborated. One such mechanism is pajuku, which could be glossed as transfer.5 In pajuku, non-butubutu members give cooked food (including nut puddings, pork, and bonito), uncooked garden produce (taro, potatoes, and yams), live pigs, purchased food and household goods (rice...

..., such as the old, sick, and lame, turned to neighboring emigrant tribes and Euro-American settlers for food and goods. In July 1830, for example, William Clark received a revealing letter from the leaders of the Piankeshaw, Wea, and Peoria. It stated, “Our neighbors, the Kanzas, infest us...

..., and they hired rowers to deliver maize to the alhóndiga and pósito (granary and storehouse) in Mexico City. Founded in the late 1570s after food short- ages, the alhóndiga was located by a canal Presumably, its location both re¡ected and prolonged a reliance on canoes for the delivery...