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The Cult Of The Nymphs: Identity, Ritual, And Womanhood In Ancient Greece, Ivana Genov
The Cult Of The Nymphs: Identity, Ritual, And Womanhood In Ancient Greece, Ivana Genov
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Examining archeological and epigraphic evidence in its historical context, in this thesis I explore the Cult of the Nymphs venerated across ancient Greek poleis. I analyze the nymph’s profound cultural and historical impact that is often overlooked in the study of ancient Greece. Nymphs were female deities thought to embody ecological sites, such as fountains and springs, and became fundamental to polis identity. Their locations were often central to city plans, and their faces, depicted on coinage, became representative of the city itself. In the community, nymphs were integral to rituals for major life events, most often in the lives …
Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 1, 2022, GéRard Chouin
Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 1, 2022, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Oduduwa & Itayemoo Transparencies, 2022, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Itayemoo Transparencies, 2022, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Comparison Of Female Role In Ritual Cults To Ancient Greek Society, Georgia Thoms
Comparison Of Female Role In Ritual Cults To Ancient Greek Society, Georgia Thoms
Undergraduate Research Awards
"Ancient Greece from 2000 to 146 BCE maintained a gendered hierarchy, more specifically a patriarchy in which women were closer to the status of a slave than a citizen. In order to dive deeper into the philosophy behind the formation and importance of the patriarchy in the lives of women, three sites will be examined: the Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron, the Sanctuary of Demeter at Corinth, and the complicated site of Andania. Each sanctuary houses an important cult that emphasizes the female role, whether that be through leadership or the complete exclusion of men. Each sanctuary provides architectural evidence …
Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 2, 2022, GéRard Chouin
Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 2, 2022, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963)Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963), Léa Roth, Gérard Chouin, Adisa Ogunfolakan
Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963)Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963), Léa Roth, Gérard Chouin, Adisa Ogunfolakan
Arts & Sciences Articles
From December 1957 to January 1958, Frank Willett conducted a “rescue” excavation at Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife (Nigeria), to investigate the fortuitous discovery of rare brass artifacts by laborers preparing the land for a construction project. Ita Yemoo soon emerged as a significant site, and Willett conducted subsequent archaeological campaigns between 1958 and 1963. The site became famous for its “bronzes” and several terracotta heads excavated in situ, which became icons of Ife’s “florescence” period during the 13th and 14th centuries CE. However, the fame of the site contrasts with the absence of detailed published material on its archaeology. In this …
“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions Of Nature In Edith Wharton’S Fiction, Jonathan Malks
“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions Of Nature In Edith Wharton’S Fiction, Jonathan Malks
Undergraduate Honors Theses
I situate Edith Wharton’s guiding idea of “garden-magic” at the center of my thesis because Wharton’s fiction shows how a garden space could naturalize otherwise inadmissible behaviors within upper-class society while helping a character tie such behavior to a greater possibility for escape. To this end, Wharton situates gardens as idealized touchstones within the built environment of New York City, spaces where characters believe they can reach self-actualization within a version of nature that is man-made. Actualization, in this sense, stems from a character’s imaginative escape that is enabled by a perception of the garden as a kind of natural …
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Scholars of the American South generally end their studies of Confederate memorization just before World War 1. Because of a decline in the number of physical monuments and memorials to the Confederacy dedicated in the years immediately following the war, scholars appear to regard the interwar era as a period separate from the Lost Cause movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, to fully understand the complexity of developing Southern identities in the modern age, it is essential to expand traditional definitions of Confederate memorialization and the time period in which it is studied. This paper explores …
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 3, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 3, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 2, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 2, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 1, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 1, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Cities In Africa Before 1900. Historiography And Research Perspectives, Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg, Gérard Chouin
Cities In Africa Before 1900. Historiography And Research Perspectives, Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg, Gérard Chouin
Arts & Sciences Articles
What new issues arise several decades after the first academic studies? What are the answers and what sources are mobilized? This special issue proposes a historiographical review of research conducted on cities, taking into account the most recent methodological reflections on the issue of the relationship between the urban territory and the exercise of power before the 20th century, focusing on its material and symbolic aspects. Case studies in the Maghreb, West Africa's forest and Sahelian regions and East Africa examine these stakes.
Les Villes En Afrique Avant 1900. Bilan Historiographique Et Perspectives De Recherche, Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg, Gérard Chouin
Les Villes En Afrique Avant 1900. Bilan Historiographique Et Perspectives De Recherche, Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg, Gérard Chouin
Arts & Sciences Articles
Quels nouveaux questionnements émergent plusieurs décennies après les premières études académiques ? Quelles sont les réponses apportées et quelles sources sont mobilisées ? Ce numéro thématique propose un bilan historiographique des recherches menées sur les villes, tout en s’inscrivant dans les réflexions méthodologiques les plus récentes autour de la question des relations entre le territoire urbain et l’exercice du pouvoir avant le xxe siècle, à travers ses aspects matériels et symboliques. Des études de cas au Maghreb, en Afrique occidentale forestière et sahélienne et en l'Afrique de l'Est abordent ces enjeux.
Odudwa College, Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 1, 2019, GéRard Chouin
Odudwa College, Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 1, 2019, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Odudwa College, Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 2, 2019, GéRard Chouin
Odudwa College, Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 2, 2019, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2019, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2019, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 4, 2018, GéRard Chouin
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 4, 2018, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 7, 2018, GéRard Chouin
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 7, 2018, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 6, 2018, GéRard Chouin
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 6, 2018, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 1, 2017, GéRard Chouin
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 1, 2017, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 2, 2017, GéRard Chouin
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 2, 2017, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 3, 2017, GéRard Chouin
Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 3, 2017, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
From Path To Portage: Issues Of Scales, Process, And Pattern In Understanding New Brunswick Riverine Trail, Mallory Leigh Moran
From Path To Portage: Issues Of Scales, Process, And Pattern In Understanding New Brunswick Riverine Trail, Mallory Leigh Moran
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Behind The Scenes At William And Mary: Front Stage History And Backstage Archaeology, Tiffany Olivia Little
Behind The Scenes At William And Mary: Front Stage History And Backstage Archaeology, Tiffany Olivia Little
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Grandfathers At War: Practical Politics Of Identity At Delaware Town, Melissa Ann Eaton
Grandfathers At War: Practical Politics Of Identity At Delaware Town, Melissa Ann Eaton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This research explores the meaning, construction, representation, and function of Delaware ethnic identity during the 1820s. In 1821, nearly 2,000 Delawares (self-referentially called Lenape) crossed the Mississippi River and settled in Southwest Missouri as a condition of the Treaty of St. Marys. This dissertation argues that effects of this emigration sparked a vigorous reconsideration of ethnic identity and cultural representation. Traditionally, other Eastern Algonquian groups recognized Delawares by the metaphoric kinship status of "grandfather." Both European and Colonial governments also established Delawares as preferential clients and trading partners. Yet, as the Delawares immigrated into a new "western" Superintendency of Indian …
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 …
The Fruits Of Their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton's Greenhouse Complex And The Rise Of American Botany In Early Federal Philadelphia, Sarah Jane Chesney
The Fruits Of Their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton's Greenhouse Complex And The Rise Of American Botany In Early Federal Philadelphia, Sarah Jane Chesney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation explores the world of early American botany and the transatlantic community of botanical enthusiasts from the perspective of William Hamilton, gentleman botanical collector in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Philadelphia. Drawing on both existing documentary sources and three seasons of archaeological excavation at The Woodlands, Hamilton's country estate on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, I analyze both the physical requirements of botanical collecting as well as the more nuanced social, cultural, and economic elements of this trade and its early modern participants.;The personal experiences of individual participants in this exchange are often traced through the …
Gathering Places, Cultivating Spaces: An Archaeology Of A Chesapeake Neighborhood Through Enslavement And Emancipation, 1775--1905, Jon Jason Boroughs
Gathering Places, Cultivating Spaces: An Archaeology Of A Chesapeake Neighborhood Through Enslavement And Emancipation, 1775--1905, Jon Jason Boroughs
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study is a community-level analysis of an African American plantation neighborhood grounded in archaeological excavations at the Quarterpath Site (44WB0124), an antebellum quartering complex and post-Emancipation tenant residence occupied circa 1840s-1905 in lower James City County, Virginia. It asserts that the Quarterpath domestic quarter was a gathering place, a locus of social interaction in a vibrant and long established Chesapeake plantation neighborhood complex.;By the antebellum period, as marriage "abroad," or off-plantation, became the most common form of long term social union within plantation communities, enslaved social and kin ties in the Chesapeake region were typically geographically dispersed, enjoining multiple …
An Allegory For Life: An 18th Century African-Influenced Cemetery Landscape, Nassau, Bahamas, Grace S. Turner
An Allegory For Life: An 18th Century African-Influenced Cemetery Landscape, Nassau, Bahamas, Grace S. Turner
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
I use W.E.B. Du Bois' reference to the worlds 'within and without the veil' as the narrative setting for presenting the case of an African-Bahamian urban cemetery in use from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. I argue that people of African descent lived what Du Bois termed a 'double consciousness.' Thus, the ways in which they shaped and changed this cemetery landscape reflect the complexities of their lives. Since the material expressions of this cemetery landscape represent the cultural perspectives of the affiliated communities so changes in its maintenance constitute archaeologically visible evidence of this process. …