Spirituality (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Brown. Tara Ruttley.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists have unearthed artifacts associated with West African-derived spiritual belief systems in many different African American locations in the New World. What can the artifacts tell us about the social control mechanisms used within enslaved plantation quarters communities to maintain internal cohesion and collective identity? Ethnographic, historical, and archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Zemla.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archival documentation indicates that at least 12 enslaved African Americans lived and worked at the c. 1756 Marlpit Hall farmhouse in Middletown, NJ. Recent interior exploration of the former slave quarters has revealed concealed tangible representations of material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lily R Singman-Aste.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The kingdom of Dahomey, active in what is now the republic of Bénin in seventeenth through nineteenth century West Africa, was a rich and complex society governed by a royal palace (Monroe 2014). In 2000, excavations that began at the kingdom’s royal palace complexes as a part of the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project revealed a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Cobb. Gifford Waters.

Franciscan missions in La Florida have been characterized as struggling between an unresolved duality between their Christian obligations and their mandated support functions for the larger colony. We suggest that there was a dialectical symmetry between these demands. Catholicism introduced a new set of rhythms into the daily life of Indigenous communities centered on prayer, study, the sacraments, feast days, and other ongoing religious observances. This periodization of time and behavior...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christophe R. Lindner. Ethan P. Dickerman.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A 1767 slave-owning Calvinist minister’s cellar in Germantown NY holds a fireplace with punctate figures in its wooden frame: sailboat, smoking pipe, and BaKongo cosmogram. Beneath the adjacent hearthstones, amidst rubble fill, student excavators plotted clusters of symbolic objects: quartz crystals, blue glass beads, buttons, a shale pebble etched with two ‘X’ marks. The symbolically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Armstrong.

Archaeological and historical research at the Harriet Tubman Home has generated an extensive body of new data that sheds light on the complex and idiosyncratic life of this American icon.  This paper will examines expressions of Tubman’s spirituality which reflect both community based ideals and individualized expressions.  Tubman was an African American woman of strong beliefs with ties to many churches and ideologies, and much of her life was dedicated to the common good.  She was an activist...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Glowacki.

There are many visual representations spanning the different time periods of the ancient Andes, and corroborated by historic accounts, that point to man’s spiritual essence as residing in the head, and more specifically, head hair. These examples suggest that this power was transferable and maintained the reciprocal balance between men, and the earthly and supernatural realm. This presentation briefly discusses the human head and hair in Andean belief as a conduit for the flow of spiritual power...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry J. Zimmerman.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Loren.

Wellness and spirituality are rooted in the body. Bodies and material culture are intertwined through practices of healing; ways to navigate bodily and spiritual health in daily life. In colonial Lower Mississippi Valley, European-introduced diseases and new forms of material culture greatly impacted Native American communities and their practices of healing. Some of these stories are familiar to us: the changes brought about by access to new materials, new tools, and new kinds of clothing. Yet,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Hanks.

Since the late 1990s, paranormal investigating has emerged as a popular means of seeking knowledge of the ghostly or paranormal in England. Paranormal investigators are self-fashioned experts who aim to balance scientistic and spiritual perspectives in hopes of proving or disproving the existence of ghosts from an objective perspective. They dedicate significant amounts of their leisure time to reading about, talking about, and researching ghosts or the paranormal. English paranormal...