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Title: | Researching Chinese Market Gardening: Insights from Archaeology and Material Culture | Contributor(s): | Boileau, Joanna (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14245 | Abstract: | This paper explores the use of material culture evidence to uncover the economic and social environments of Chinese market gardeners in Australia and New Zealand. In particular it explores the multiple meanings that artefacts associated with Chinese market gardeners can embody and how they mediate between cultures. Four items of material culture are examined to discover how they can shed light on the daily lives of Chinese market gardeners and their social interactions. Two come from archaeological contexts; one is in a museum collection and one is in private ownership. They range in date from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s or 1930s. The first two are utilitarian items of technology: a garden rake and a Clutterbuck oil engine. The second two are more luxury items: an ornate silver fob watch and chain and a collection of fine bone china ceramics imported from Europe. What they have in common is that their owners and users were all Chinese market gardeners. Illustrating how material culture evidence can complement evidence from more traditional sources, the paper draws on documentary sources and oral histories to provide a context in time and place for each of these items. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, v.6, p. 134-143 | Publisher: | Australian National University, College of Asia & the Pacific. Center for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1834-609X | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210202 Heritage and Cultural Conservation 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) 210311 New Zealand History |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430203 Cultural heritage management (incl. world heritage) 430302 Australian history |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950399 Heritage not elsewhere classified 950503 Understanding Australias Past 950505 Understanding New Zealands Past |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130703 Understanding Australia’s past 130705 Understanding New Zealand’s past |
Peer Reviewed: | No | HERDC Category Description: | C2 Non-Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://chl.anu.edu.au/publications/csds/csds2013/csds2013_14.pdf |
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