| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco. By Barbara L. Voss. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xx, 400 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-520-24492-4.)

In this study the anthropologist Barbara L. Voss explores the "genesis" of "Californios," settlers in the Spanish colony of San Francisco who forged a new cultural identity, a process she labels "ethnogenesis." By examining findings from archeological excavations at the Presidio, the military outpost founded by the Spanish and maintained by the Spanish military and their families, the author sets out to reconstruct how the colonizers, in their daily practices and routines, shaped their sense of who they were as a people. She examines a wide array of cultural and archaeological artifacts—architectural footprints, plant seeds, shards of earthenware, cooking vessels, glass beads, copper buttons—to reconstruct the transformation of colonial identity. The significance of the Presidio case study, as Voss sees it, is that "it maps a process through which one marginalized sector of society advanced by exercising power over other marginalized peoples" (p. 7).

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