Placemaking Within (the) Diaspora: Creating and Living Novel Landscapes and Places
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2018
This session will look at how distinctive cultural landscapes and places are created by diaspora peoples. All people, through their daily lives and ordinary/common practices, create places. This session will examine how archaeology can get at the creation of place and the relationships between people and locales. More specifically, we will discuss what those relationships look like for people who have experienced displacement, kidnapping, or other forces that caused them to leave their homeland; and how the creation of new places in turn shapes meaning, practice, and people themselves. The session offers a common ground for people at various stages of research, a forum for for cross-cultural comparison, and an opportunity to reflect on how we interpret the making and living of place. Some themes may include placemaking within borderlands, power and resistance in placemaking, and creation of places that reinforce ancestral or traditional ties.
Other Keywords
diaspora •
African Diaspora •
Placemaking •
Jewish •
Ceramics •
American West •
Community •
Cemeteries •
Narrative •
Consumption
Temporal Keywords
19th Century •
Early 19th Century •
19th-20th Century •
19th and 20th centuries •
17th - 19th centuries •
Second Spanish Period Florida/antebellum •
Ante-bellum, mid-19th century
Geographic Keywords
North America •
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-8 of 8)
- Documents (8)
- "The Awakening Came with the Railroad": The history and archaeology of Southern Oregon’s Chinese Railroad Workers (2018)
- Burying the Sons of Israel in America: Jewish Cemeteries as the Focal Point of Diasporic Community Development (2018)
- Carving out Niches for Rest and Resistance: Landscape Adaptation Writ Small at the Slave Cabins of Kingsley Plantation (2018)
- Finding a Home in the Global Shtetl: The Archaeology of Jewish Placemaking in the Diaspora (2018)
- Freedom in Florida: Maroons Making Do in the Colonial Borderland (2018)
- A "Little Alsace" for the Lone Star State: Alsatian Migration and the Construction of Place, Narrative, and Identity on the Texas Frontier (2018)
- Poaching Pots and Making Places: Slavery and Ceramic Consumption in the Shenandoah Valley (2018)
- Seneca Village: The Making and Un-making of a Distinctive 19th-Century Place on the Periphery of New York City (2018)