Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
295
result(s) for
"Douglas E. Ross"
Sort by:
An archaeology of Asian transnationalism
An exploration of migration and ethnicity of diasporic communities based on the archaeological study of a community of Chinese and Japanese immigrants in British Columbia.
Book
An Archaeology of Asian Transnationalism
In the early twentieth century, an industrial salmon cannery thrived along the Fraser River in British Columbia. Chinese factory workers lived in an adjoining bunkhouse, and Japanese fishermen lived with their families in a nearby camp. Today the complex is nearly gone and the site overgrown with vegetation, but artifacts from these immigrant communities linger just beneath the surface.
In this groundbreaking comparative archaeological study of Asian immigrants in North America, Douglas Ross excavates the Ewen Cannery to explore how its immigrant workers formed a new cultural identity in the face of dramatic displacement. Ross demonstrates how some homeland practices persisted while others changed in response to new contextual factors, reflecting the complexity of migrant experiences. Instead of treating ethnicity as a bounded, stable category, Ross shows that ethnic identity is shaped and transformed as cultural traditions from home and host societies come together in the context of local choices, structural constraints, and consumer society.
eBook
A History of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology
Japanese diaspora archaeology originated in the late 1960s but reports and publications did not appear until the 1980s. Early studies often included Japanese artifacts or sites within larger surveys, but by the 1990s and 2000s were the focus of targeted research. Most research has been undertaken in western North American and the Pacific Islands. Pre-War farms and work camps and World War II battlefields and incarceration centers emerged as primary topics of study, with the incarceration centers dominating the literature today. Research themes are diverse but emphasize material consumption, concepts of place, and patterns of cultural persistence and change.
Journal Article
Factors Influencing the Dining Habits of Japanese and Chinese Migrants at a British Columbia Salmon Cannery
Little archaeological research has focused on comparing the lives of Chinese migrants in North America with their non-Chinese neighbors, and only a modest amount of work of any sort has been done on Japanese sites. The following study compares archaeological and archival evidence of dining habits among Japanese and Chinese laborers at a turn-of-the-20th-century salmon cannery in British Columbia. The objective is to explore the role of ethnic tradition and contextual factors in patterns of material consumption, using a theoretical perspective rooted in transnationalism and diaspora. Results indicate the Japanese cannery workers consumed a combination of Asian- and Western-style meals, while the Chinese relied largely on traditional meals. Data from these and other sites reveal considerable diversity, however, and demonstrate that labor organization and other contextual factors are at least equally as important as cultural tradition in producing distinctions between consumption patterns of Asian migrant groups.
Journal Article
Archaeology of the Chinese and Japanese Diasporas in North America and a Framework for Comparing the Material Lives of Transnational Migrant Communities
One strength of historical archaeology as it has been practiced in recent decades is its concern for and ability to examine the lives of individuals and communities from a range of ethnic backgrounds. Nevertheless, through a combination of factors a handful of these groups have come to dominate empirical and theoretical discussions in the discipline. Occasionally, however, opportunities arise to investigate material assemblages associated with ethnic groups that have received little or no archaeological attention. This kind of opportunity can be both a blessing and a curse. It offers freedom to address a range of questions that have not been
Book Chapter
Factors influencing the dining habits of Japanese and Chinese migrants at a British Columbia salmon cannery
Little archaeological research has focused on comparing the lives of Chinese migrants in North America with their non-Chinese neighbors, and only a modest amount of work of any sort has been done on Japanese sites. The following study compares archaeological and archival evidence of dining habits among Japanese and Chinese laborers at a turn-of-the-20th-century salmon cannery in British Columbia. The objective is to explore the role of ethnic tradition and contextual factors in patterns of material consumption, using a theoretical perspective rooted in transnationalism and diaspora. Results indicate the Japanese cannery workers consumed a combination of Asian- and Western-style meals, while the Chinese relied largely on traditional meals. Data from these and other sites reveal considerable diversity, however, and demonstrate that labor organization and other contextual factors are at least equally as important as cultural tradition in producing distinctions between consumption patterns of Asian migrant groups.
Journal Article
Theorizing the Asian Migrant Experience
As a first step in developing a model of diasporic consumerism and identification, this chapter introduces and critically examines existing approaches to overseas Asian migration and industrial labor, drawn from the historical and archaeological literature. The goals are to identify valuable observations and insights that can be incorporated into the model and to draw in important critiques and concerns inspired by previous research that should be addressed before moving forward.
Archaeological research on Chinese migrants and their descendants in western North America and elsewhere spans the past four decades, although it did not really emerge as a distinct field of
Book Chapter
Archaeological Evidence from Lion Island
Unlike Japanese sites, Chinese labor camps in North America and elsewhere have produced considerable archaeological data. Although much of it comes from limited surface survey and testing, often resulting in small samples and equally limited interpretation, such data provide a valuable comparative context for evaluating findings from the Chinese bunkhouse on Lion Island. As in the previous chapter, I begin with a summary of this previous research followed by a detailed overview of data recovered from the bunkhouse site.
Excavations at the late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Warrendale and Bay View salmon canneries in Oregon, the closest analogues to the
Book Chapter
Chinese and Japanese Migration in Context
In his 1986 dissertation on Chinese miners in New Zealand, Ritchie (1986: 652) remarked on the absence of information regarding the degree to which Chinese adopted European goods prior to emigration; yet subsequent archaeological research has done little to address this knowledge gap. This is, or should be, a central consideration in any interpretation of the nature of cultural persistence and change in overseas contexts because it exposes the complexity of what it means for something to be indigenous or foreign. It relates closely to Jones’s (1997: 125–26) broader point, addressed in chapter 2, about the importance of the
Book Chapter