Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Ethnogenesis and the archaeology of identity
  • Spanish-colonial San Francisco
  • From casta to Californio, I : who lived at El Presidio de San Francisco?
  • From casta to Californio, II : social identities in late Spanish and Mexican-era Alta California
  • From artifacts to ethnogenesis : excavating El Presidio de San Francisco
  • Sites of identification : landscape
  • Structuring structures : architecture
  • Tradition and taste : ceramics
  • Consuming practices : foodways
  • Fashioning the colonial subject : clothing
  • Conclusion.