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Brownbag Lectures: Breaking Bread and Building Bridges

Brownbag Lectures: Breaking Bread and Building Bridges

• Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
• Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Presented by Dr. Jodie O'Gorman, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, Adjunct Research Associate in Anthropology, Illinois State Museum

A renewed interest in foodways in archaeology places food within the larger context of economic, political, and religious systems and has the potential to examine related material culture and symbolic meaning of all things related to food within these contexts. This presentation considers the use of a foodways approach to better understand cultural negotiation of group identity and the creation and maintenance of community building. Preliminary analysis of the adoption of serving vessel forms following group migration and settlement among regional residents at the Morton Village Site in Fulton County, Illinois is presented.

One of our Brownbag Lectures

Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public.

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