Hidden in view: African spiritual spaces in North American landscapes

Ruppel, Timothy H.; Neuwirth, Jessica; Leone, Mark P.; Fry, Gladys Marie

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“…Vesa-Pekka Herva fi nds appear to have an indisputable connection to spiritual matters (e.g., Hoggard 2004 ; Merri fi eld 1987 ; Ruppel et al 2003 ; see also Gazin-Schwartz 2001 ;Wilkie 1997 ) . Spirituality may also seem fairly marginal in importance, albeit perhaps interesting in its own right, when compared to the canonized big issues of the postmedieval past, such as the development of new economic systems and the European colonization of the world.…”

Section: Spirituality and The Materials World In Post-medieval Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeology of Spiritualities

Rountree¹,

Morris²,

Peatfield³

2012

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Section: Spirituality and The Materials World In Post-medieval Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeology of Spiritualities

Rountree¹,

Morris²,

Peatfield³

2012

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“…Examples include ceramic bowls with cross lines incised on interior or exterior surfaces of the bases, and white clay marbles, coins, and pewter spoons with similar marks scratched into them. Archaeologists also have uncovered caches of polished stones, quartz crystals, pieces of chalk, bone disks, coins, ash, bird skulls, crab claws, iron nails, and blade-like fragments that were deposited beneath entryways or along perpendicular axes under the wood or brick floors of dwellings and work spaces (Brown 2001(Brown , 2004Fennell 2003Fennell , 2007bFerguson 1992Ferguson , 1999Franklin 1997a;Leone 2005;Leone and Fry 1999;McKee 1995;Ruppel et al 2003;Samford 1994;Wilkie 1997;Young 1996Young , 1997. These deposits typically appear in contexts that indicate they were used in private, often secret, settings.…”

Section: Artifacts Of Spiritual Beliefs and Practicesmentioning

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Early African America: Archaeological Studies of Significance and Diversity

Fennell

2010

J Archaeol Res

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This article examines archaeological studies of the cultural heritage and social dynamics of African descendant populations in the United States and Canada from AD 1400 through 1865. European colonial enterprises expanded in Africa and the Americas during that time span, effecting an accompanying movement of free and captive Africans into North America. Archaeological investigations of early African America are remarkable for the diversity of analytic scales and research questions pursued. This diversity of research efforts has yielded a highly productive, interdisciplinary expansion of knowledge concerning African diaspora histories.

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“…Leone and Shackel 1990;Leone et al 1998;Ruppel et al 2003). Meanwhile, the Paca garden has served as a vehicle for scholars to develop alternatives to structuralism and Althusserian Marxism in historical archaeology, usually under the rubric of the 'interpretative' approaches developed in British prehistory.…”

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‘Places for thinking’ from Annapolis to Bristol: situations and symmetries in ‘world historical archaeologies’

Hicks

2005

World Archaeology

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The past decade has seen many calls for the development of unified 'world historical archaeologies' of the past 500 years. While the field benefits from growing international exchanges and collaborations, retaining the diversity of regional traditions is a major and emerging challenge. As the field increasingly tests the temporal, geographical and interdisciplinary limits of archaeological perspectives, engaging with the diversity of modern material, these complexities remain little discussed, and the situations and contingencies of disciplinary narratives, priorities and interactions remain unproblematized.Exploring these matters, this paper considers transatlantic interactions between British and North American traditions of historical archaeology over the past two decades, journeying between two garden landscapes -in Annapolis and Bristol. After considering Mark Leone's 1984 study of the William Paca garden in Annapolis, Maryland, and its subsequent reinterpretations, the paper discusses an eighteenth-century 'eclectic' garden at Goldney in Bristol. The paper argues that situational and 'symmetrical', rather than interpretative, approaches to archaeological material would aid the development of multi-vocal and inclusive 'world historical archaeologies', acknowledging and celebrating the archaeological complexities that are encountered in the past and the disciplinary present. KeywordsGardens; Annapolis; Bristol; historical archaeology.A special edition of World Archaeology on the theme of historical archaeology is particularly appropriate because 'global' concerns lie at the heart of many of the interpretative themes upon which the field has focused: from industrial manufacture and trade to colonial encounters, comparative urban archaeology or maritime archaeology. It is also very timely, since, in exploring these themes over the past two decades, international exchanges and collaborations have emerged as a distinctive and increasingly influential aspect of historical archaeology (pace Moreland 2001). This is particularly true for the relations between North American and British historical archaeologies that form the subject of the present paper. Increased transatlantic communications, unusual for other fields of archaeology (Shott 2005), have proliferated, leading to special joint meetings of the British Society for PostMedieval Archaeology (SPMA) and the US-based Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) in Williamsburg, Virginia, and London in 1997 and, most recently, in the convening in January 2005 of an SHA annual conference for the first time in England. This has brought new interactions between archaeologists working on very similar materials -from creamwares or clay pipes to urban stratigraphies or rural landscapes -and upon the remains of societies that were interrelated in the past. For British and North American historical archaeologists, then, interests in 'world archaeology' highlight relations in both the past and the disciplinary present. And yet very little discussion of the manner in which we ...

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Hidden in view: African spiritual spaces in North American landscapes

Cited by 38 publications

References 10 publications

Archaeology of Spiritualities

Archaeology of Spiritualities

Early African America: Archaeological Studies of Significance and Diversity

‘Places for thinking’ from Annapolis to Bristol: situations and symmetries in ‘world historical archaeologies’

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