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Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 1, 2022, GéRard Chouin Jan 2022

Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 1, 2022, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

No abstract provided.


Oduduwa & Itayemoo Transparencies, 2022, GéRard Chouin Jan 2022

Oduduwa & Itayemoo Transparencies, 2022, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

No abstract provided.


Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 2, 2022, GéRard Chouin Jan 2022

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 Nov 2021

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 …


Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 3, 2021, GéRard Chouin Jan 2021

Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 3, 2021, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

No abstract provided.


Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 2, 2021, GéRard Chouin Jan 2021

Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 2, 2021, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

No abstract provided.


Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 1, 2021, GéRard Chouin Jan 2021

Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 1, 2021, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

No abstract provided.


Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2021, GéRard Chouin Jan 2021

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 Jan 2020

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 Jan 2020

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 Jan 2019

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 Jan 2019

Odudwa College, Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 2, 2019, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

No abstract provided.


Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2019, GéRard Chouin Jan 2019

Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2019, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

No abstract provided.


Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 4, 2018, GéRard Chouin Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2017

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 Jan 2017

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 Jan 2017

Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 3, 2017, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

No abstract provided.


An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown Jan 2014

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 …


Gathering Places, Cultivating Spaces: An Archaeology Of A Chesapeake Neighborhood Through Enslavement And Emancipation, 1775--1905, Jon Jason Boroughs Jan 2013

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 Jan 2013

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. …


Dooley's Ferry: The Archaeology Of A Civilian Community In Wartime, Carl Gilbert Drexler Jan 2013

Dooley's Ferry: The Archaeology Of A Civilian Community In Wartime, Carl Gilbert Drexler

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Warfare and conflict are familiar topics to anthropologists, but it is only recently that anthropological archaeologists moved to create a discrete specialization, known as Conflict Archaeology. Practitioners now actively pursue research in a number of different areas, such as battlefields, fortifications, and troop encampments. These advances throw into sharp relief areas that need greater focus. This dissertation addresses one of these shortcomings by focusing on the home front by studying Dooley's Ferry, a hamlet that once lay on the banks of the Red River, in southwest Arkansas. Before the American Civil War, it was a node in the commodity chains …


I'M Really Just An American: The Archaeological Importance Of The Black Towns In The American West And Late-Nineteenth Century Constructions Of Blackness, Shea Aisha Winsett Jan 2012

I'M Really Just An American: The Archaeological Importance Of The Black Towns In The American West And Late-Nineteenth Century Constructions Of Blackness, Shea Aisha Winsett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Medicating Slavery: Motherhood, Health Care, And Cultural Practices In The African Diaspora, Ywone Edwards-Ingram Jan 2005

Medicating Slavery: Motherhood, Health Care, And Cultural Practices In The African Diaspora, Ywone Edwards-Ingram

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

A sophisticated exploration of the intricacies of motherhood and health care practices of people of African descent, especially the enslaved population of Virginia, can shed light on their notions of a well-lived life and the factors preventing or contributing to these principles. I situate my dissertation within this ideal as I examine how the health and well-being of enslaved people were linked to broader issues of economic exploitation, domination, resistance, accommodation, and cultural interactions. Historical and archaeological studies have shown that the living and working conditions of enslaved people were detrimental to their health. Building on these findings, I explore …


Nathaniel Jocelyn: In The Service Of Art And Abolition, Toby Maria Chieffo-Reidway Jan 2005

Nathaniel Jocelyn: In The Service Of Art And Abolition, Toby Maria Chieffo-Reidway

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Through my dissertation, I embark on a biographical, cultural and historical study of artist and abolitionist Nathaniel Jocelyn (1796-1881), primarily known as a nineteenth-century portrait painter and engraver in New Haven, Connecticut. Although Jocelyn received little formal training, he sought to become a preeminent portrait painter. Together with his younger brother, Simeon Smith Jocelyn (1799-1879), he established a successful engraving firm designing banknotes, maps, atlases, and book illustrations.;Jocelyn lived in an age of evangelical revivalism commonly called the Second Great Awakening. He was a devout Congregationalist and saw the various aspects of his life embedded in his religious convictions. Jocelyn's …


Pay For Labor: Socioeconomic Transitions Of Freedpeople And The Archaeology Of African American Life, 1863-1930, Shannon Sheila Mahoney Jan 2004

Pay For Labor: Socioeconomic Transitions Of Freedpeople And The Archaeology Of African American Life, 1863-1930, Shannon Sheila Mahoney

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


'Post-Humously Hot': Bill Traylor's Life And Art, Colleen Doyle Worrell Jan 1994

'Post-Humously Hot': Bill Traylor's Life And Art, Colleen Doyle Worrell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


An Archaeological Perspective On The African-American Slave Diet At Mount Vernon's House For Families, Stephen Charles Atkins Jan 1994

An Archaeological Perspective On The African-American Slave Diet At Mount Vernon's House For Families, Stephen Charles Atkins

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Free African-American Archeology: Interpreting An Antebellum Farmstead, Robin Leigh Ryder Jan 1991

Free African-American Archeology: Interpreting An Antebellum Farmstead, Robin Leigh Ryder

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.