Savage Lands, Civilizing Appetites

Power and Wilderness in Quebec City (1535-1900)

Bibliographic Data

ID2095909
AuthorsJulie-Anne Bouchard-Perron (University of Nottingham, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume82
Issue3
Pages480-497
Publication date2017-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/aaq.2017.26
OpenAlexW2619964188
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited59

Quebec City (Canada) is well-known for its unique wild environments and its protected cultural heritage, which have attracted tourists to the area for centuries. Often taken for granted or overlooked, the interactions between its natural and cultural landscape have been scantly investigated in a diachronic perspective in archaeology. This article explores the relationship between Quebec City's colonists/inhabitants and their surrounding territory, through the study of food plants for the period between 1535 and 1900. It contrasts visitors' accounts and official discourses with daily experience using a combination of historical and archaeobotanical evidence to unravel how changing historical, social, and political contingencies impacted past perceptions of 'wilderness' as manifested in food choices. In this process, the consumption of local indigenous plants has been interpreted as a form of incorporation of local environments that can enlighten us about popular attitudes toward the New World's natural features

Archaeology · Art · Consumption (sociology) · Cultural heritage · Cultural landscape · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Natural (archaeology) · Natural landscape · Natural resource · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Wilderness · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Ecology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law

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