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Clambake : A History and Celebration of an American Tradition Publications of the American Folklore Society. New Series (Unnumbered)
author
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Neustadt, Kathy.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870237829
print isbn13
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9780870237829
ebook isbn13
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9780585212784
language
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English
subject
Clambakes--United States--History, Clambakes--Massachusetts--Allen's Neck--History, Festivals--United States, Festivals--Massachusetts--Allen's Neck, Allen's Neck (Mass.)--Social life and customs, United States--Social life and customs.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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GT2956.U6N48 1992eb
ddc
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394/.3
subject
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Clambakes--United States--History, Clambakes--Massachusetts--Allen's Neck--History, Festivals--United States, Festivals--Massachusetts--Allen's Neck, Allen's Neck (Mass.)--Social life and customs, United States--Social life and customs.
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Clambake
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Publications of the American Folklore Society
New Series
General Editor, Patrick B. Mullen
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Clambake
A History and Celebration of an American Tradition
Kathy Neustadt
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1992 by Kathy Neustadt All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 91-45599 ISBN 0-87023-782-9(cloth); 799-3(pbk) Designed by Jack Harrison Set in Adobe Caslon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Neustadt, Kathy, 1951 Clambake : a history and celebration of an American tradition / Kathy Neustadt. p. cm. (Publications of the American Folklore Society, new series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-782-9 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-87023-799-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. ClambakesUnited StatesHistory. 2. ClambakesMassachusettsAllen's NeckHistory. 3. FestivalsUnited States. 4. FestivalsMassachusettsAllen's Neck. 5. Allen's Neck (Mass.)Social life and customs. 6. United StatesSocial life and customs. I. Title. II. Series: Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered) GT2956.U6N48 1992 394' .3dc20 91-45599 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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For Casey and Nicky, who may someday even want to read this
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
3
Prologue: The Bake
10
Section One. The New England Clambake: A History
15
1. Early Evidence
17
2. The Politics of Feasting
29
3. Leisure and Industry
49
Section Two. The Allen's Neck Bake: An Ethnography
71
4. A Portrait of Allen's Neck
73
5. One Hundred Years of Clambaking
89
6. How They Do It at Allen's Neck
103
Section Three. Clambakes and Meaning
133
7. Food, Ritual, and Festivity
137
8. Concluding Thoughts: Clam Juice and Melted Butter
161
Notes
189
References
209
Index
221
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have been blessed with help at every stage and in every aspect of this project. Roger Abrahams, Margaret Mills, and Don Yoder from the Department of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania guided me through the vicissitudes of the doctoral process and have remained supportive and helpful resources ever since. To Roger goes particular thanks for his help in propelling this book toward publication and putting me in touch with Paul Wright at the University of Massachusetts Press, who, among other supportive acts, has never once asked me to justify a study of clambaking. Kathryn Grover, who contributed clarity and polish through her editing, gave this work its closest and most constructive reading.
Jim Baker, Bill Weaver, Betty Little, and Nancy Jenkins, all experts in their fields, have been generous with their time and knowledge, and the obscure references to shellfish practices that they have passed along to me have added enormously to the historical narrative. I owe a specific debt to Sandy Oliver, who first directed my attention to the "squantum" connection, and to Bob St. George, who introduced me to the Forefathers' Day "feast of shells" and to many other choice references besides: every researcher should be blessed with such friends. Nanepashemet, curator of the Wampanoag Indian Program at Plimoth Plantation, has earned my profound intellectual respect and gratitude for his contributions to my understanding of some very subtle aspects of cultural politics that, among other things, have played a role in the
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