[...]... Proposed to House the Cavalry Company of the Port of San Francisco in New California, 1795 183 21 Plan That Shows the New Design of the Presidio of San Francisco for Housing the Troops of the Garrison, 1796 184 22 Detail of View of the Presidio of San Francisco, watercolor by Louis Choris 187 23 Size-based comparison of El Presidio de San Francisco s main quadrangles 195 24 Places of manufacture for... and methodological issues involved in studies of identity, ethnicity, sexuality, and ethnogenesis The remaining chapters are organized into two parts Part 1, “Historical and Archaeological Contexts,” begins by introducing Spanish -colonial San Francisco, including its colonial institutions and the historical events that aªected the lives of the people who lived there (chapter 2) Chapter 3 presents the. .. on their military enlistment or marriage papers than the one they had been assigned at birth But in California at the end of the eighteenth century, the colonial settlers went a step further and rejected the sistema de castas altogether One priest in charge of recording casta information in census records lamented that “such enumeration was in vain since the inhabitants of the district considered themselves... at the community, household, and individual levels This provides an ever-increasing intimacy with the colonial subjects whose lives are represented in the archaeological record of the Presidio The conclusion considers the articulations between these diªerent aspects of material practice and oªers a synthetic interpretation of the ways in which places and objects participated in shaping colonial ethnogenesis. .. sense, practices of identification call attention to perceived similarities and, in doing so, achieve an erasure or elision of other kinds of variability These erasures of variations pose an internal threat to the stability of identities, requiring continual “work” (in the sense of the multifaceted deployment of social power) to maintain the coherence of relations of similarity Much of this identity... (Miranda 1988:271) The colonial residents started to describe themselves as gente de razón (literally, people of reason), hijos and hijas del país (sons and daughters of the land), and, increasingly, Californios and Californianas (Californians) The new Californio ethnic identity simultaneously referenced the region in which the colonial settlers lived and emphasized Spanish ancestry at the expense of indigenous... arriving here in Alta California, the colonists, themselves formerly colonized peoples, ceased to think of themselves in these racial terms Abandoning the sistema de castas, Spain’s colonial race laws, they embraced a shared colonial identity: Californio In these conversations about historical identities at the Presidio—with site visitors, at public lectures, in the classroom, with colleagues at the. .. Volunteers and artillerymen 264 43 Games of the Inhabitants of California, by Louis Choris 267 44 View of the Presidio of San Francisco, engraving by Louis Choris 272 45 Presbytery and side altars of the chapel at Mission San Francisco de Asís 277 46 Clothing fasteners recovered from the chapel area of the Presidio 280 47 Religious charms recovered from the chapel area of the Presidio 281 Maps 1 New Spain,... 3 presents the findings of demographic research on both the colonial and indigenous populations of the Presidio and also discusses the historically specific formulation of racial, gendered, and sexual identities in eighteenth-century New Spain Chapter 4 continues this examination of colonial identities by presenting the documentary evidence for Californio ethnogenesis and assessing the prevalent historical... refashioned in response to intercultural contact The study of ethnogenesis at El Presidio de San Francisco thus reveals the changing fault lines of both colonial and indigenous societies Introduction 3 This study is unusual among recent archaeological investigations of colonization in its focus on the colonizers themselves Since the 1980s, archaeologists have tended to emphasize indigenous responses to the . alt="" THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ETHNOGENESIS THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ETHNOGENESIS Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco Barbara L. Voss University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London University. Francisco in New California, 1795 183 21 Plan That Shows the New Design of the Presidio of San Francisco for Housing the Troops of the Garrison, 1796 184 22 Detail of View of the Presidio of San Francisco, . Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2008 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Voss,