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Karen Bescherer Metheny
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Biography
Karen Bescherer Metheny is visiting researcher of archaeology at Boston University. She is author of From the Miners’ Doublehouse (2007) and co-editor of Landscape Archaeology (1996, with Rebecca Yamin). She has taught courses in the anthropology and archaeology of food, food history and food culture of New England, and method and theory in food studies. Her current research interests center on the use of food mapping and other visualization techniques, and the cultural significance of maize in colonial New England.