“Tavern” by the saltpan: New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682–1781

New England seafarers from small merchant ships visited the natural saltpans of the Venezuelan island of La Tortuga from the late seventeenth century up until 1781. The liminal space of the island set the stage for the creation of an improvised “tavern” where the communalism of shipboard life was su...

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Autor: Antczak, Konrad A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Punch bowls
Drinking
Seafarers
Caribbean salt exploitation
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spelling “Tavern” by the saltpan: New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682–1781Antczak, Konrad A.Punch bowlsDrinkingSeafarersCaribbean salt exploitationNew England seafarers from small merchant ships visited the natural saltpans of the Venezuelan island of La Tortuga from the late seventeenth century up until 1781. The liminal space of the island set the stage for the creation of an improvised “tavern” where the communalism of shipboard life was suddenly changed to more markedly vertical relations. Drawing from archaeological excavations and original documentary sources it is argued that, while on land, captains no longer worked alongside their crews who now labored extracting salt. With leisure time available to them, punch drinking offered captains a means of discursive practice through the manipulation of fashionable material culture and an opportunity to negotiate their social position among peers. When given to the crew, punch served as a labor incentive and a way of obfuscating the sudden change in customary captain-crew relations while on the island.Springer202220222015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/53263http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-014-0285-yreponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésInt J Histor Archaeol. 2015 Mar;19(1):159-87© Springer The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-014-0285-y.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/532632026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title “Tavern” by the saltpan: New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682–1781
spellingShingle “Tavern” by the saltpan: New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682–1781
Antczak, Konrad A.
Punch bowls
Drinking
Seafarers
Caribbean salt exploitation
title_short “Tavern” by the saltpan: New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682–1781
title_full “Tavern” by the saltpan: New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682–1781
title_fullStr “Tavern” by the saltpan: New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682–1781
title_full_unstemmed “Tavern” by the saltpan: New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682–1781
title_sort “Tavern” by the saltpan: New England seafarers and the politics of punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682–1781
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Antczak, Konrad A.
author Antczak, Konrad A.
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Drinking
Seafarers
Caribbean salt exploitation
topic Punch bowls
Drinking
Seafarers
Caribbean salt exploitation
description New England seafarers from small merchant ships visited the natural saltpans of the Venezuelan island of La Tortuga from the late seventeenth century up until 1781. The liminal space of the island set the stage for the creation of an improvised “tavern” where the communalism of shipboard life was suddenly changed to more markedly vertical relations. Drawing from archaeological excavations and original documentary sources it is argued that, while on land, captains no longer worked alongside their crews who now labored extracting salt. With leisure time available to them, punch drinking offered captains a means of discursive practice through the manipulation of fashionable material culture and an opportunity to negotiate their social position among peers. When given to the crew, punch served as a labor incentive and a way of obfuscating the sudden change in customary captain-crew relations while on the island.
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