Lion Island

An Archaeology of Asian Transnationalism

In the early twentieth century, an industrial salmon cannery thrived along the Fraser River in British Columbia. Chinese factory workers lived in an adjoining bunkhouse, and Japanese fishermen lived with their families in a nearby camp. Today the complex is nearly gone and the site overgrown with vegetation, but artifacts from these immigrant communities linger just beneath the surface. In this groundbreaking comparative archaeological study of Asian immigrants in North America, Douglas Ross excavates the Ewen Cannery to explore how its immigrant workers formed a new cultural identity in the face of dramatic displacement. Ross demonstrates how some homeland practices persisted while others changed in response to new contextual factors, reflecting the complexity of migrant experiences. Instead of treating ethnicity as a bounded, stable category, Ross shows that ethnic identity is shaped and transformed as cultural traditions from home and host societies come together in the context of local choices, structural constraints, and consumer society.

Antarctica

Geographic Names of the Antarctic

List of names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names and the Secretary of the Interior for features in Antarctic and the area extending northward to the Antarctic convergence. Each name is listed with its geographic coordinates, a description of the feature, and facts concerning the discovery, mapping, and naming of the feature. Foreword includes policy on antarctic names, the nature of the problem and how it was resolved.