ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on glass bead assemblage to present a methodological approach for examining bead consumption among the population of Mission Santa Catalina. She believes individuals from the community of Mission San Diego de Satuache can be recognized as comprising a distinct community of consumption at Mission Santa Catalina. Combining the concepts of object itineraries, communities of practice, and the methods of social network analysis provides an approach that can facilitate analyses of consumption in a broad sense, integrated into larger patterns of manufacture, distribution, and disposal. Two distinct network models based on similarities in the bead assemblages found with individual burials are instructive. The first model is a single mode network in which the nodes consist of individuals buried with beads in the Santa Catalina mission cemetery. The second network model is bimodal, where the nodes represent both beads and burials within the mission cemetery.
