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White Ethnogenesis and Gradual Capitalism: Perspectives from Colonial Archaeological Sites in the Chesapeake

BELL, ALISON·2005·American Anthropologist
DOI 10.1525/aa.2005.107.3.446
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The piecemeal development of capitalist socioeconomic systems in the colonial Chesapeake was deeply intertwined with projects of white ethnogenesis. Crafting a sense of “groupness” along lines perceived as racial required free “whites” to remain economically and socially interdependent. A variety of strategies and material forms—including reciprocal exchanges, hall‐parlor house plans, and earthfast construction—facilitated this cohesion. Such integrative tactics coexisted in colonists' behavioral repertoires with more “capitalistic” strategies that prioritized private profit over social obligation. Colonists' deployment of diverse social strategies reflects a complex calculus assessing the benefits of economic autonomy against the benefits of ethnic (“white”) solidarity. These dynamics can be illustrated through an 18th‐century archaeological site at Flowerdew Hundred in the Chesapeake.

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Authors
BELL, A.
Venue
American Anthropologist
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2005-09
Volume
107
Issue
3
Pages
446-460
ISSN
  • 0002-7294
  • 1548-1433
DOI
10.1525/aa.2005.107.3.446
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37
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Language
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