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Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire
and thus the most plantations. The lack of archaeological data for
interpreting these sites is a glaring void in slavery and
plantation studies. Theresa Singleton helps to fill this gap with
the presentation of the first archaeological investigation of a
Cuban plantation written by an English speaker. At Santa Ana de
Biajacas, where the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a
massive masonry wall, Singleton explores how elite Cuban planters
used the built environment to impose a hierarchical social order
upon slave laborers. Behind the wall, slaves reclaimed the space as
their own, forming communities, building their own houses,
celebrating, gambling, and even harboring slave runaways. What
emerged there is not just an identity distinct from other
NorthAmerican and Caribbean plantations, but a unique slave culture
that thrived despite a spartan lifestyle. Singleton's study
provides insight into the larger historical context of the African
diaspora, global patterns of enslavement, and the development of
Cuba as an integral member of the larger Atlantic World.
Benoit Henriet is Assistant Professor of History at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel.
Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age explores the political
economy of deportations in New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550-1070 BCE)
from an interdisciplinary angle. The analysis of ancient Egyptian
primary source material and the international correspondence of the
time draws a comprehensive picture of the complex and far-reaching
policies. The dataset reveals their geographic scope, economic and
demographic impact in Egypt and abroad as well as their
interconnection with territorial expansion, international
relations, and labour management. The supply chain, profiting
institutions and individuals in Egypt as the well as the labour
tasks, origins and the composition of the deportees are discussed
in detail. A comparative analytical framework integrates the
Egyptian policies with a review of deportation discourses as well
as historical premodern and modern cases and enables a global and
diachronic understanding of the topic. The study is thus the first
systematic investigation of deportations in ancient Egyptian
history and offers new insights into Egyptian governance that
revise previous assessments of the role of forced migration und
unfree labour in ancient Egyptian society and their long-term
effects.
Nestled in the heart of Paris, the American Cathedral of the
Holy Trinity today stands as one of the great buildings of this
ancient city. The history of the church itself presents a rich
portrait of lively men and women who made it their mission to serve
God and the people of Paris with all their hearts.
Meticulously researched, A History of the American Pro-Cathedral
Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris, 1815-1980 delivers an impressive
narrative on each period of growth and development within this
church. Beginning with the American Episcopal Church's need to
serve Americans living in Paris, author Cameron Allen traces the
development of the foundational congregation, the building of the
first church, and its organization over the years.
Allen draws on diary entries, church documents, and other
primary sources to reveal the personalities behind church leaders,
including W. O. Lamson, who formally established the church, the
pivotal role of J. P. Morgan, organist L. K. Whipp, and German
Colonel Rudolph Damrath, a Lutheran minister who took over during
the German Occupation of France during World War II. In addition,
he discusses the church's role during major historical events and
its present needs.
This inspiring, well-written history provides an excellent
resource for current and past church members, rectory libraries,
and historians.
Dura-Europos, founded by the Greeks in 300 BCE, became a remote
outpost of the Roman Empire in western Asia until it was finally
destroyed by a Persian army in the third century CE. It lay buried
until it was rediscovered by British troops in the aftermath of
World War I, at which time its intact religious sites, military
equipment, tombs, and wall decorations were all excavated. In My
Dura-Europos: The Letters of Susan M. Hopkins, 1927-1935, authors
Bernard M. Goldman and Norma W. Goldman collect and contextualize
the correspondence of Susan Hopkins, who accompanied her husband,
Clark Hopkins, to the archaeological dig at Dura-Europos, which was
one of the most significant of the twentieth century. From a very
personal female viewpoint, My Dura-Europos describes life at the
remote excavation from the first season in 1928, when Susan and
Clark were neophyte archaeologists, to 1935 when the project
concluded. Susan writes of cataloging the finds, mending pottery,
and acting as epigrapher by translating the inscriptions and dating
the coins. In addition to these roles, Susan was assigned
responsibility for organizing many of the day-to-day aspects of
life in the camp, and later letters even describe her life as a
mother in 1933-35, when she brought her young daughter along to the
excavations. Susan's lively, personal letters are organized and
annotated by Bernard Goldman, whose deep knowledge of the sites and
general history of archaeology and the region allows for a vivid
and helpful commentary. After Bernard Goldman's death, his wife,
Norma Goldman, completed the manuscript and added over two hundred
rare illustrations of the site and the archaeologists involved.
Readers interested in archaeology and the history of the classical
world will enjoy this fascinating inside look at life on the
Dura-Europos site.
Zooarchaeology, or the study of ancient animal remains, is a vital
but frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. Many disciplines,
including anthropology, sociology, and geography, recognise
human-animal interactions as a key source of information for
understanding cultural ideology. Archaeological records are also
composed largely of debris from human-animal relationships, be they
in the form of animal bones, individual artefacts or entire
landscapes. By integrating knowledge from archaeological remains
with evidence from texts, iconography, social anthropology and
cultural geography, Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to
Archaeological Issues provides an intellectual tool-kit to enable
archaeological students, researchers and those working in the
commercial sector to offer more engaging interpretations of the
evidence at their disposal. Going beyond the simple confines of
'what people ate', this accessible but in-depth study covers a
variety of high-profile topics in European archaeology and provides
novel insights into mainstream archaeological questions.This
includes cultural responses to wild animals, the domestication of
animals and its implications on human daily practice, experience
and ideology, the transportation of species and the value of
incorporating animals into landscape research, the importance of
the study of foodways for understanding past societies and how
animal studies can help us to comprehend issues of human identity
and ideology: past, present and future.
This book reviews the evolution of Biosemiotics and gives an
outlook on the future of this interdisciplinary new discipline. In
this volume, the foundations of symbolism are transformed into a
phenomenological, technological, philosophical and psychological
discussion enriching the readers' knowledge of these foundations.
It offers the opportunity to rethink the impact that evolution
theory and the confirmations about evolution as a historical and
natural fact, has had and continues to have today. The book is
divided into three parts: Part I Life, Meaning, and Information
Part II Semiosis and Evolution Part III Physics, medicine, and
bioenergetics It starts by laying out a general historical,
philosophical, and scientific framework for the collection of
studies that will follow. In the following some of the main
reference models of evolutionary theories are revisited: Extended
Synthesis, Formal Darwinism and Biosemiotics. The authors shed new
light on how to rethink the processes underlying the origins and
evolution of knowledge, the boundary between teleonomic and
teleological paradigms of evolution and their possible integration,
the relationship between linguistics and biological sciences,
especially with reference to the concept of causality, biological
information and the mechanisms of its transmission, the difference
between physical and biosemiotic intentionality, as well as an
examination of the results offered or deriving from the application
in the economics and the engineering of design, of biosemiotic
models for the transmission of culture, digitalization and
proto-design. This volume is of fundamental scientific and
philosophical interest, and seen as a possibility for a dialogue
based on theoretical and methodological pluralism. The
international nature of the publication, with contributions from
all over the world, will allow a further development of academic
relations, at the service of the international scientific and
humanistic heritage.
This book places Li Ji (the Book of Rites) back in the overall
context of "books," "rites" and its research history, drawing on
the interrelations between myth, ritual and "materialized" symbols
to do so. Further, it employs the double perspectives of "books"
and "rites" to explore the sources and symbols of the capping
ceremony (rites of passage), decode the prototypes of Miao and Ming
Tang, and restore the discourse patterns of "people of five
directions." The book subsequently investigates the formation and
function of the Yue Ling calendar and disaster ritual, so as to
reveal the human cognitive encoding and metalanguage of ritual
behavior involved. In the process, it demonstrates that Li Ji, its
textual memories, archaeological remains and "traditional ceremony"
narratives are all subject to the latent myth coding mechanism in
China's cultural system, while the "compilation" and "materialized"
remains are merely forms of ritual refactoring, interpretation and
exhibition, used when authority seeks the aid of ritual
civilization to strengthen its legitimacy and maintain the social
order.
Utopian and intentional communities have dotted the American
landscape since the colonial era, yet only in recent decades have
archaeologists begun analyzing the material culture left behind by
these groups. The case studies in this volume use archaeological
evidence to reveal how these communities upheld their societal
ideals - and how some diverged from them in everyday life.
Surveying settlement patterns, the built environment, and even the
smallest artifacts such as tobacco pipes and buttons, Stacy
Kozakavich explores groups including the Shakers, the Harmony
Society, the Moravians, the Ephrata Cloister, the Oneida community,
Brook Farm, Mormon towns, the Llano del Rio colony, and the Kaweah
colony. She urges researchers not to dismiss these communal
experiments as quaint failures but to question how the lifestyles
of the people in these groups are interpreted for visitors today.
She reminds us that there is inspiration to be found in the unique
ways these intentional communities pursued radical social goals.
The Canyon de Chelly is one of the best Cliff Ruins regions in the
United States. This book details the pueblo dwellings in the
region, with over a hundred black and white diagrams and
photographs. The original index and footnotes have been preserved.
Sharon McGriff-Payne has spent the past three years of this first
decade of the 21st Century mesmerized by African Americans from the
19th Century, especially the insistent voice of John Grider. Grider
captured McGriff-Payne's imagination and guided her to mine largely
neglected archives to unearth and compile the stories of African
Americans in California's North Bay counties of Solano, Napa, and
Sonoma from the 1840s through the 1920s.
Grider, a former slave, Bear Flag veteran, and hardworking
everyman has inspired McGriff-Payne's research. The indomitable
Miss Delilah L. Beasley has also inspired the author. Her 1919
book, The Negro Trail Blazers of California, preserved the names
and deeds of many of the North Bay's African American pioneers.
John Grider's Century seeks to add those black voices to
California's larger historical narrative, with the message, "We
were here "
"Tell my story," Grider prompted. McGriff-Payne has attempted
to fulfill that command and dedicates this volume to him and the
other pioneers who founded schools, formed churches and civic
organizations, advocated policy, built businesses, raised families
and triumphed over daunting odds.
In 2011 Michel Aberson, Maria Cristina Biella, Massimiliano Di
Fazio and Manuela Wullschleger (two Italians and two Swiss, two
archaeologists and two historians of antiquity) met in Geneva at
the Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquite classique and
decided to undertake a challenging project together: to organize
three conferences on the peoples of central Italy, taking into
consideration the key milestones in their history, from their
independence, through their relations with Rome and ending with the
(re)construction of their identities within the Roman world.
Underpinning the project, which immediately found the support of
many colleagues and institutions, was the idea of bringing
historians, archaeologists, linguists and specialists of Latin
literature together to collaboratively create a comprehensive
picture of these significantly multifaceted and sometimes even
conflicting topics. The present volume is the outcome of the third
conference of the series E pluribus unum? Italy from the Pre-Roman
fragmentation to the Augustan Unity, held at the University of
Oxford in October 2016; it deals with the specific moments of
conscious rediscovery of conquered peoples’ contribution to Roman
culture from the late Republic and during the Empire. These
influences can be recognized particularly during the Late Republic
and Augustan period, and the final outcome is the formation of a
connective tissue, which can be described as the cement of the
"unaccomplished identity" of ancient Italy. The volume investigates
the issue from different perspectives in order to avoid the
adoption of a Romanocentric perspective.
Bringing together high-profile cultural heritage sites from around
the world, this volume shows how the term heritage has been used or
understood by different groups of people over time. For some, the
term has meant a celebration of a particular culture and history or
the promotion of accessibility, tolerance, and inclusivity. But for
others it has been connected with cultural privilege, social
exclusion, or exploitation via the tourism industry. These case
studies are taken from America, Britain, Ireland, France, Germany,
Austria, India, China, and the Caribbean. The varied approaches to
heritage seen here range from the Nazi regime's vision of German
national history to the present-day push to recover Native American
culture from outdated Hollywood portrayals. Featuring a tribute to
Sir Gregory Ashworth, whose influential work drew attention to the
contested meanings of heritage, this volume illuminates a
fascinating international debate.
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