The Complexities of Consumption: Eastern Pequot Cultural Economics in Eighteenth-Century New England

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen W. Silliman ◽  
Thomas A. Witt
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Cultural Economics ◽  
Eastern Pequot

Shellfish Collection and Community Connections in Eighteenth-Century Native New England

2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (04) ◽  
pp. 712-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Hunter ◽  
Stephen W. Silliman ◽  
David B. Landon
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
New England ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
Shellfish Gathering ◽  
Colonial New England ◽  
Specific Species ◽  
Cultural Connections ◽  
Eastern Pequot

Abstract In recent years, the archaeology of Native American sites in colonial contexts has increased our understanding of how indigenous communities persisted in challenging times. Greater attention to practices helps to create a more enriched picture, especially when set in the context of food and consumption. This article considers shellfish remains excavated from three households on the Eastern Pequot reservation, located several kilometers Inland from the Connecticut coast in southern New England, to explore the role that shellfish gathering played in eighteenth-century subsistence and social practices in Native New England. Household variability in the specific species and quantity consumed, as well as disposal methods, provide insight into internal community decision making. Moreover, eighteenth-century reservation demographics strongly accentuate the role of women in the provision of these foodstuffs and in maintaining cultural connections to the coast and other off-reservation communities. Practices of gathering and consuming shellfish thus provide vectors of change and continuity in Native American communities of colonial New England, showing how these practices represent not only connections to a deeper past, but also ongoing and even resurging practices to engage with a colonial present.

scholarly journals Ancients and Axioms: Secondary Education in Eighteenth-Century New England

1964 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Robert T. Sidwell ◽  
Robert Middlekauff
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
New England

Origins of the Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Revival: England and New England Compared

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
First Great Awakening ◽  
Revival Movements ◽  
British Colonies

Current interpretations of North America's first Great Awakening present a paradox. Historians commonly interpret the Great Awakening as part of the revival of evangelical piety that affected widely scattered elements of the Protestant world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; however, studies of the Great Awakening have almost exclusively focused on the particular local circumstances in which the revival movements developed. Since historians of the Great Awakening have emphasized the peculiar circumstances of each of the regional manifestations, the Revival often appears in their writings to have been composed of several distinct movements separated in time, character, and cause and united only by superficial similarities. In contrast, to say that the local revival movements, despite their distinctive characteristics, were manifestations of a single larger movement is to imply that they shared the same general causes. If we suppose that the Great Awakening was part of the Evangelical Revival, our attempts to explain its origins should take into account those general causes.Two recent reconsiderations of the eighteenth-century revival movements in their broader context come to opposite conclusions. Jon Butler underscores the span of time over which the revivals occurred across the British colonies, their heterogeneous character from one region to the next, and the differences in cultural contexts in which they appeared. He concludes that “the prerevolutionary revivals should be understood primarily as regional events.” Although he sees the eighteenth-century American revivals as part of the long-term evangelical and pietistic reform movement in Western society, he denies any common, single, overwhelmingly important cause.

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