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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments and Statues to Women: Arrival of an Historical Reckoning of Memory and Commemoration", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A feminist intersectional theoretical perspective reveals that Western patriarchy's intersecting androcentrism and racism have been ideologically legitimated, promoted and sanctified by the great predominance of statues commemorating real, powerful white men, often on horses to...
Porcellian Porcelain and White Male Fragility: The Journey of a Privileged Plate (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Meanwhile, In the NPS Lab: Discoveries from the Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archeologists at Boston’s African Meeting House were surprised to discover an intact porcelain plate on the site’s surface. More shocking was the mark identifying the plate as coming from the exclusive Porcellian Club, one of the storied finals clubs of Harvard University. The club was founded in 1791 and boasts...