The spirit of Wye House

Summary

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 archaeological remains of Puritan Christianity and Anglican Christianity are different. There is ample evidence of both, but traditions, practices, and recorded beliefs show a role for parallel expressions of the supernatural in daily life.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Archaeological Approaches to Subjectification

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