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Asking For Forgiveness: Negotiating The Creation Of Memory Through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo
Asking For Forgiveness: Negotiating The Creation Of Memory Through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo
Undergraduate Honors Theses
The practice of spatializing culture, or “examining space through theories of embodiment, discourse translocality, and effect,” localizes the global and separates hegemonic narratives of space from how it is actually utilized by the people who interact with it. Setha Low argues that this perspective is especially useful to the anthropologist committed to challenging the discipline’s historically eurocentric approach to studying culture. She writes that a spatial focus “[draws] on the strengths of studying people in situ, producing rich and nuanced sociospatial understandings.” This project began with an interest in theorists such as Edward Soja, Michel de Certeau, and Henri Lefebvre, …
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Lewis Burwell II designed Fairfield plantation in Gloucester County to be the most sophisticated and successful architectural and agricultural effort in late seventeenth-century Virginia. He envisioned a physical framework with the intent to control the world around him so that he might profit from growing tobacco, while raising his family's status to the highest in the colony through the display of wealth and knowledge and the enslavement of both Africans and the natural surroundings. The landscape he envisioned contrasted with those of the enslaved Africans he purchased and put to work in the fields and buildings surrounding his '1694 brick …
Contextualizing Tucker's Garden: The Role Of Text, Subtext, And Context In The Creation Of Eighteenth-Century Landscapes, Kathleen B. Meatyard
Contextualizing Tucker's Garden: The Role Of Text, Subtext, And Context In The Creation Of Eighteenth-Century Landscapes, Kathleen B. Meatyard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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The Churchyard Enclosure Around The Elizabeth City Parish Church Of 1728: With Systemic And Proxemic Considerations, Anne W. H. Garland
The Churchyard Enclosure Around The Elizabeth City Parish Church Of 1728: With Systemic And Proxemic Considerations, Anne W. H. Garland
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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