Dutch Oven and Bantenese Cooking Stove: Coarse Earthenware Study in the Sultanate of Banten, Java, Indonesia
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Dutch Oven and Bantenese Cooking Stove: Coarse Earthenware Study in the Sultanate of Banten, Java, Indonesia Kaoru Ueda 1 & Sonny C. Wibisono 2
# Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Abstract This paper analyzes Dutch and indigenous adaptation processes of foodways in the colonial Dutch East Indies, using seventeenth to early nineteenth-century archaeological evidence from Banten, Java. Banten was a global trading center and the focal point of the expansion in Asia of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Its cosmopolitan and multinational society was already apparent when the Dutch arrived in 1596. Our research suggests that the Dutch in Banten adapted to using locally produced utilitarian earthenware instead of importing European vessels or having European-style cookware made in Banten. Banten’s pre-existing market-oriented urban society made many of the basic necessities available for the VOC garrison in Banten. Perhaps equally important in facilitating Dutch adaptation to local foodways was the presence of local women and Asian cooks in their daily life. Keywords Colonialism . Indonesia . Foodways . Dutch East India Company
Introduction This paper analyzes Dutch and indigenous adaptation processes of foodways in the colonial Dutch East Indies, using as evidence archaeologically derived cooking and This article was originally presented as a paper at the BConnecting Continents: Archaeological Perspectives on Slave, Trade and Colonialism,^ Society for American Archaeology and European Association of Archaeologists Joint Thematic Meeting, Curaçao, November 6, 2015.
* Kaoru Ueda [email protected]
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International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History, Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 650 Beacon Street, Suite 505, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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The National Research Center of Archaeology, Jl. Raya Condet Pejaten No. 4, Jakarta 12510, Indonesia
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storage vessels from the Sultanate of Banten (mid-sixteenth century-1813), Java. We use the terms colonial and colonialism to refer to what Brad Bartel (1985, p. 10) etically defines as a Bform of domination and control by representatives of a state society over another people and territory.^ Past archaeological scholarship has demonstrated variability in both the nature and degree of colonialism (see, for example, Alcock 2005; Stein 2005a, b), from preservation of cultural identity (Huey 1991) to cultural hybridity and localization (Deagan 2004; Dietler 1998; Gosden 2004; Jordan and Schrire 2002; Lightfoot and Martinez 1995, p. 472; Skowronek 1998; van Dommelen 1997, 2005). However, the paucity of data relating to the historical archaeology of eighteenth-century Southeast Asia is acute (Stark 2014), and this study aims to help fill the gap. Banten, located on the northwest coast of Java, was a prosperous global trading center in early modern Southeast Asia. This urban and cosmopolitan background sets Banten apart from many other colonial settings, offering a compelling case study of colonialism from a global perspective.
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