Hi, I am doing research for my internship, and will be completing my history bachelors this May. I have been researching Huguenot Calvinism in colonial New York, and for weeks, my questions have been yielding fruitless results no matter where I look. There are many technical histories of Calvinism and Dutch Reformed and Huguenot faiths, speaking about the leaders, development, theology, et cetera. My question though is, how did this religion affect their day-to-day lives, beliefs on the secular and mundane, or change their views on life and death? I thought I wouldn't have too much trouble finding a synopsis on the social life of Huguenots in the new world, but it's been a chore. I cannot tell if it simply doesn't exist yet, (and I need to write it) or I am not searching in the right way.
I have been briefed about boolean operators and have refined my searches on many databases to no avail. Is there a way to search, directly or indirectly, for specifically more anthropological or even archaeological studies about this group of people? Thanks in advance.
Jon Butler says that the Huguenots pretty quickly assimilated and basically disappeared as any kind of cohesive group. This could be why you're having so much trouble. If you haven't read his book on the Huguenots (Butler, The Huguenots in America) it's probably worth a read. If nothing else, his biography and footnotes might suggest some primary sources to you that might include some of the information you're looking for.