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Siberian Indigenous Traditions of Game Keeping and the Supernatural: Historical Continuities and Discontinuities (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Siberian Indigenous communities have been used for centuries as a stand-in for various western categories, mostly as a contrast to civilized, developed or familiar groups. This paper will consider the importance of history when archaeologists contemplate the role of the supernatural and the centrality of game...
The spirit of Wye House (2015)
The role of the supernatural in establishing subjectivity is well understood in Marxist terms, particularly through Althusser and Zizek. There are two parallel, complementary religions at Wye House near Easton, Maryland in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Through archaeology, African and African American religions and their role in the cosmos, people's lives, and the maintenance of heritage is becoming well understood through African and African American material remains. The...
There Is A Presence In The Absence: Exploring Parallels and Discontinuities Between British Isles and West African Belief Systems In North American Folk Tradition (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Social scientists of the mid-19th to early 20th century asserted that the mythos and practices of the Black American south were merely a memetic repository of British folk tradition. Later, West African magico-religious folk practices were recognized in the lifeways of Black Americans, with archaeologists exploring the associated...