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Colonial Contacts And Individual Burials: Structure, Agency, And Identity In 19th Century Wisconsin, Sarah Elizabeth Smith
Colonial Contacts And Individual Burials: Structure, Agency, And Identity In 19th Century Wisconsin, Sarah Elizabeth Smith
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Individual burials are always representative of both individuals and collective actors. The physical remains, material culture, and represented practices in burials can be used in concert to study identities and social personas amongst individual and collective actors. These identities and social personas are the result of the interaction between agency and structure, where both individuals and groups act to change and reproduce social structures.
The three burials upon which this study is based are currently held in the collections of the Milwaukee Public Museum. They are all indigenous burials created in Wisconsin in the 19th century. Biological sex, stature, age, …