Choice Flowers and Well-Ordered Tables: Struggling Over Gender in a Nineteenth-Century Household |
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Authors: | Hadley Kruczek-Aaron |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, 209 Maxwell Hall, Syracuse, New York, 13244 |
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Abstract: | Historical archaeologists have generally considered households as isolated,bounded entities, and not as sets of social relations. Consequently, the household has gone unrecognized as an arena of struggle. Analysis of documents associated with the household of nineteenth-century reformer Gerrit Smith challenges this approach. At his Peterboro, New York estate, a struggle ensued between family members because of conflicting ideologies of self-presentation, and between worker and employer on account of the period's shifting gender ideology. In order to access the meanings of objects excavated, the material remains associated with the Smith household must be considered in light of these struggles. |
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Keywords: | household gender struggle social relations |
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