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Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Annual Report, 2011-12, Michael S. Nassaney
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Annual Report, 2011-12, Michael S. Nassaney
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project continued its multifaceted program of research, teaching, and public outreach focused on the study of the fur trade and colonialism in southwest Michigan, while involving the community in the process with the support of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeology Advisory Committee. Over the past year (September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2012) Western Michigan University students and faculty, along with various stakeholders and community volunteers, collaborated to investigate the site of Fort St. Joseph and disseminate information to increasing numbers of people. Here are some of the year’s highlights.
- The project was the recipient …
Jaqueline Eng, Margaret Von Steinen
Jaqueline Eng, Margaret Von Steinen
International Faculty Researchers
Evidence of what might be an ancient funerary defleshing ritual found in human-made caves in the Upper Mustang region of Nepal has been discovered by WMU bio-archaeologist Dr. Jacqueline Eng as a member of a research team that is funded in part by the National Geographic Society.
An Analysis Of Personal Adornment At Fort St. Joseph (20be23), An Eighteenth-Century French Trading Post In Southwest Michigan, Ian B. Kerr
Masters Theses
Since 1998 Western Michigan University archaeologists have investigated Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), an 18th century mission, garrison and trading post located in present day Niles, Michigan. The project’s research directive focuses on exploring notions of identity formation and its material expression in light of the prolonged and persistent cultural contact between Native Americans and Europeans at the site.
This thesis seeks to further this directive by exploring how personal adornment materiality both structures and broadcasts individuals’ social identities. By employing an intrasite spatial analysis of the assemblage of adornment artifacts from recognized domestic contexts at Fort St. Joseph this thesis …
Archaeological Investigations Of Control And Autonomy At The Colony Farm Of The Michigan State Asylum, 1880-1950, Alison Thornton
Archaeological Investigations Of Control And Autonomy At The Colony Farm Of The Michigan State Asylum, 1880-1950, Alison Thornton
Masters Theses
This project is designed to look into mechanisms of control and patient autonomy in institutional confinement, using Colony Farm in Kalamazoo, Michigan as a case study. I have chosen to specifically examine landscape, architecture, foodways, and personal goods/dress as avenues in which to parse out information regarding control and autonomy. The main themes throughout this paper are work as a cure, patient labor, and the blurring of roles between patients, staff members, and paid hired workers. These themes are intertwined with landscape, architecture, foodways, and personal goods/dress and highlight the contradictions inherent in institutional confinement, especially in the context of …
Religious Rx: The Roles Of Faith And A Religious Community In The Treatment Of Mental Illness, Autumn Elizabeth Shroyer
Religious Rx: The Roles Of Faith And A Religious Community In The Treatment Of Mental Illness, Autumn Elizabeth Shroyer
Research and Creative Activities Poster Day
One in seventeen Americans is diagnosed with serious mental illness (NIMH 2009). Despite its prevalence people with mental illness are stigmatized, creating barriers to effective treatments and recovery. The best treatments today are highly effective; between 70 and 90 percent of individuals have significant reduction of symptoms and improved quality of life with a combination of medication and psychological therapies (NAMI 2011). Additionally, studies have shown benefits of social supports.
For those with religious belief, participation in a religious community could offer social support and provide incentive to maintain treatments. However, historically some religious institutions have marginalized those with mental …
Participant/Observer Vol. 5. No. 1 Spring 2012, Anthropology Department
Participant/Observer Vol. 5. No. 1 Spring 2012, Anthropology Department
Participant/Observer
A Newsletter for Friends of the Western Michigan University Department of Anthropology
Table of Contents:
- Anthropology Unveils New Archaeology Labs
- Letter from the Chair
- 2011 Farmstead Archaeology Project Season
- Finding Fossils in New Ways: Using GIS and Remote Sensing Approaches in Paleoanthropology
- WMU Archaeologists Invade Baltimore for the Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology
- El Sol Students Get a Firsthand Look at Anthropology
- The 36th Annual Western Michigan University Archaeological Field School
- WMU Now Offering Virtual Lectures on Fort St. Joseph Archaeology Programs
- Fur Trade Booklet Now Available!
- Sweet Memories in Japan
- Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Lecture Series …
Fort St. Joseph Post - Spring 2012, Department Of Anthropology
Fort St. Joseph Post - Spring 2012, Department Of Anthropology
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Vol. 3. No. 1
For friends of Western Michigan University’s Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Table of Contents:
- Welcome to the Project!
- Society for Historical Archaeology 2011
- Direct from the Lab...
- Fur Trade Booklet Now Available!
- A Report on the 2011 Field Season
- French Cloth Seal Recovered at Fort St. Joseph, Michigan
- The Digital Archaeological Record
- Public Outreach: An Important Job
- A Student’s Experience with Outreach
- 2011 was the Best Year Yet!
- Comments from 2011 Open House Surveys
- Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Open House: A Colonial Militia Muster on the Eve of Revolution
- Where Are They Now?
- 2011 Field Season …
Faithful Remembering: Constructing Dutch America In The Twentieth Century, David E. Zwart
Faithful Remembering: Constructing Dutch America In The Twentieth Century, David E. Zwart
Dissertations
The people of the Dutch-American community constructed and maintained a strong ethnoreligion identity in the twentieth despite pressures to join the mainstream of the United States. A strong institutional completeness of congregations and schools resulted from and contributed to this identity. The people in these institutions created a shared identity by demanding the loyalty of members as well as constructing narratives that convinced people of the need for the ethnoreligious institutions.
The narratives of the Dutch-American community reflected and reinforced a shared identity, which relied on a collective memory. The framing, maintaining, altering, and remodeling of the collective memory from …
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project (20be23), Sue Reichert
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project (20be23), Sue Reichert
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
This map illustrates units that have been excavated from 2002 through 2011.
The Fur Trade, Rachel B. Juen, Michael S. Nassaney
The Fur Trade, Rachel B. Juen, Michael S. Nassaney
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project - Booklet Series, No. 2
Table of contents:
- New France and the Fur Trade
- North American Rivalries
- How the Fur Trade Worked
- Trade Routes and Transportation
- A Two Way Trade: The Movement of Goods and Furs
- People of the Trade in New France
- Fur Trade Society
- Native Peoples and the Fur Trade
- Trade Goods and the Material Culture of the Fur Trade
- Animal Exploitation
- Conclusion
- Fur Trade Timeline
The Military At Fort St. Joseph, Scott T. Macpherson
The Military At Fort St. Joseph, Scott T. Macpherson
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Showing the Flag, Troupes de la Marine, Militia, and Fort St. Joseph’s Military Actions.
Fort St. Joseph And The American Revolution, Scott T. Macpherson
Fort St. Joseph And The American Revolution, Scott T. Macpherson
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Bennett’s Expedition 1779, Raid on Fort St. Joseph 1780, The “Spanish Raid” 1781, Deportation of the French, and Demise of Fort St. Joseph.