González-Tennant, Edward
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Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
A hidden landscape : repurposed cold war sites in New Jersey and their effects on memory, identity, and heritage, 2014
Item — Call number MU Thesis Mos
Identifier: b7636370
Abstract
This paper will examine how the Cold War and the buildings it left behind can offer a sense of heritage, memory, and identity to communities in New Jersey. This paper will examine three types of landscapes: fallout shelters and civil defense, the Nike missile batteries, and two military facilities (Fort Monmouth and Camp Evans). The importance of understanding the contemporary past helps archaeologists see the transitions between living memory and history. Chapter 2 will discuss central...
Dates:
2014
A study of clay tobacco pipes from Fort Charles, Nevis, West Indies, 2015
Item — Call number MU Thesis Kam
Identifier: b7636436
Abstract
Fort Charles located on Nevis in the West Indies has only been subject to archaeological investigations for two years in 2013 and 2014. From these two field [sic] 530 clay tobacco pipe fragments have been collected from all over the fort. These clay pipe fragments offer a multitude of information that is useful to understanding life at Fort Charles. Clay pipes can also effectively date an archaeological site. This thesis will focus on the pipes from Fort...
Dates:
2015
Dealing with disaster : an anthropological view of vulnerability and resiliency in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, 2014
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sed
Identifier: b7636389
Abstract
On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall along the Jersey Shore and left much of the region in devastation—a reality that continues to affect many residents eighteen months later. As time passed, many residents began to question the general ill-preparedness New Jersey as a state demonstrated during the events surrounding Hurricane Sandy. Framed by an anthropological approach using methodological and theoretical intersections, this theis will examine social, cultural, economic,...
Dates:
2014
Exploitation of the undocumented : the lack of agency and capital amongst undocumented Brazilian immigrants, 2015
Item — Call number MU Thesis Viv
Identifier: b7607897
Abstract
Brazilian immigrants in Saint Christopher, United States suffer various obstacles to their success. The first comes when the migrant realizes that he is ineligible to legally live permanently and work in Saint Christopher. This is where he first loses his agency. Although this agency is regained through the process of illegal immigration, it is again threatened by exploitation and discrimination within the United States. Some mistreatment comes from American business owners, landlords,...
Dates:
2015
From the bush to the Bronx : demonstrating the power of heritage through migration, 2013
Item — Call number MU Thesis Con
Identifier: b7607852
Abstract
Nevis is a Caribbean island in the British West Indies that steeped [sic] in history and cultural tradition. Nevisians value their culture and make efforts to preserve their traditions, including bush medicine, in the face for globalization. The project focuses on the specific cultural practice, bush medicine. Bush medicine in Nevis is the use of wild plants in various ways to treat disease or illness. For many Nevisians, bush medicine is their first line...
Dates:
2013
Smoke and fire forgery : a theory and practice of living history museums, 2013
Item — Call number MU Thesis Mul
Identifier: b5596233
Abstract
History as a field of study and education often appears infallible and authoritative. However, history is simply one account of the past supported through repetition. Museum institutions draw upon the idea of an unquestionable account of the past when crafting and presenting their interpretations. These interpretations of the past are drawn from historic and archaeological sources. In the process, certain reports of the past leave out events and specific groups of people. The public, when...
Dates:
2013
Stone, shell, or steel? A closer look at butchery implements on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, 2014
Item — Call number MU Thesis Tri
Identifier: b7526742
Abstract
Analysis of cutmarks on archaeologically recovered fauna can indicate what type of blade was used for butchery tasks. Taking this approach to evaluating tool choices in a multiethnic community has been done elsewhere but remains a relatively unexplored topic in the American Southwest. Meanwhile, shell butchery is severely understudied. This study evaluates cutmarks observed on zooarcheological bone collected from the Mission and Pueblo at Santa Catalina de Guale on St. Caherines Island,...
Dates:
2014
The Barnegat Bay : a look at the legacy, culture, & heritage of seafaring community, 2015
Item — Call number MU Thesis Fuc
Identifier: b7667220
Abstract
This thesis looks at the legacy, heritage and culture that has shaped the Barnegat Bay. By examining different groups of inhabitants like the Lenape Indians, the European settlers, pirates and privateers, and the baymen and surfmen. Each component, along with the inhabitants, has left a long lasting impression on the area. Historical events, archaeological evidence, and anthropological groups that have provided some rich, diverse, and important characteristics that were influential to the...
Dates:
2015
The restoration of the J. Sidna Allen home : nuances of turning a historic home into a museum, 2013
Item — Call number MU Thesis Wes
Identifier: b5596216
Introduction [excerpt]
Jeremiah Sidna Allen who was born on July19th, 1866, was the builder of a National Register listed house in Fancy Gap, Virginia named the J. Sidna Allen House (JSAH). Finished in 1911, the house is an extraordinary example of the Queen Anne style popular from 1880 to 1910. The current owners of the house seek to create a non-profit foundation to restore the home and open its doors to visitors to learn about local history. After years of sitting untouched the house...
Dates:
2013
Trade and exchange of jasper in Central Maryland and Washington, D.C. during the Early and Middle Woodland, 2015
Item — Call number MU Thesis Kni
Identifier: b7636812
Abstract
Throughout the Paleo, Archaic, and Woodland trade and exchange of exotic or highly knappable materials was present throughout North America. One item of trade significance to the Middle Atlantic is chert, specifically jasper. Jasper is iron-rich, cryptocrystalline rock that is deposited in between limestone and/or sandstone, or it originated within gravel deposits from glacial or tributary movement. Access to jasper as a knappable material was from the quarries that are located in...
Dates:
2015
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- Allaire State Park (N.J.) 1
- Barnegat Bay (N.J.) 1
- Blacksmithing 1
- Brazilians -- United States 1
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Caribbean Americans 1
- Carroll County (Va.) 1
- Civil defense -- New Jersey 1
- Clay tobacco pipes 1
- Cold War in popular culture 1
- Discrimination -- United States 1
- Emergency management 1
- Excavations (Archaeology) 1
- Experimental archaeology 1
- Exploitation 1
- Forge shops 1
- Fort Hancock (N.J.) 1
- Fort Monmouth (N.J.) 1
- Game and game-birds, Dressing of -- Cross-cultural studies 1
- Guale Indians -- Implements 1
- Hazardous geographic environments 1
- Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- United States 1
- Historic house museums 1
- Historic sites -- New Jersey 1
- Historical museums 1
- Historical reenactments 1
- Human beings -- Effect of environment on 1
- Human ecology -- New Jersey 1
- Hurricane Sandy, 2012 1
- Illegal aliens -- United States -- Employment 1
- Indians of North America -- Maryland 1
- Indians of North America -- Material culture 1
- Jasper 1
- Maritime anthropology 1
- Medical anthropology 1
- New Jersey -- History 1
- Ocean County (N.J.) -- History 1
- Ocean County (N.J.) -- Social life and customs 1
- Public history -- United States 1
- Saint Catherines Island (Ga.) 1
- Social ecology -- New Jersey 1
- Stone implements 1
- Traditional medicine -- Cross-cultural studies 1
- Washington (D.C.) -- History 1
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