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- Title
Home Swede Home: An Archaeological Analysis of Swedish Cultural Identity in Idaho.
- Authors
HAUGHT-BIELMANN, AMANDA
- Abstract
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many immigrants set out west to make the rugged landscape of the American West their home. Among the immigrants traveling westward was the Swedish household of Per and Anna Johanson. The Johansons established a homestead in 1891, along Nora Creek, in rural Idaho. In 2003, excavations of the Nora Creek site, conducted by the University of Idaho, unearthed material culture associated with the Johanson homestead including approximately 20,000 artifacts. In conjunction with historical documents, the glass, ceramic, faunal remains and artifacts are examined to determine whether and how a signature of Swedish identity is observed archaeologically. Essential to this research is the consideration of the ways in which class, gender, and cultural identity contributed to a Swedish identity in the Nora Creek assemblage versus the general homesteading assemblages contemporary with the temporal span of this site.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CULTURAL identity; SWEDES; SWEDISH Americans
- Publication
Idaho Archaeologist, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
0893-2271
- Publication type
Article