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dc.contributor.advisorReid, J. Jeffersonen_US
dc.contributor.authorBranton, Nicole Louise
dc.creatorBranton, Nicole Louiseen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-03T13:34:26Z
dc.date.available2013-04-03T13:34:26Z
dc.date.issued2000en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/278720
dc.description.abstractEvidence for everyday resistance by Japanese American internees can be identified at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, California through an archaeological analysis of refuse deposits left by the internees. The center landfill contains ceramic tablewares in traditional Japanese forms such as rice and tea bowls, Japanese "dishes," and tiny and sake cups, indicating that internees maintained traditional Japanese foodways despite assimilation pressure from the War Relocation Authority and European American society. The cultural context of Japanese American internment and resistance is reconstructed using ethnographic, oral history, documentary, and archaeological data. This analysis of resistance at Manzanar suggests limitations of existing models of resistance and acculturation in historical archaeology and methods for exploring strategies of cultural persistence as resistance.
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.en_US
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dc.subjectAnthropology, Archaeology.en_US
dc.subjectAnthropology, Cultural.en_US
dc.subjectHistory, United States.en_US
dc.titleRice bowls and resistance: Cultural persistence at the ManzanarWar Relocation Center, California, 1942--1945en_US
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dc.typeThesis-Reproduction (electronic)en_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizonaen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
dc.identifier.proquest1399724en_US
thesis.degree.disciplineGraduate Collegeen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropologyen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US
dc.identifier.bibrecord.b40637888en_US
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-27T16:10:25Z
html.description.abstractEvidence for everyday resistance by Japanese American internees can be identified at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, California through an archaeological analysis of refuse deposits left by the internees. The center landfill contains ceramic tablewares in traditional Japanese forms such as rice and tea bowls, Japanese "dishes," and tiny and sake cups, indicating that internees maintained traditional Japanese foodways despite assimilation pressure from the War Relocation Authority and European American society. The cultural context of Japanese American internment and resistance is reconstructed using ethnographic, oral history, documentary, and archaeological data. This analysis of resistance at Manzanar suggests limitations of existing models of resistance and acculturation in historical archaeology and methods for exploring strategies of cultural persistence as resistance.


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