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A biohistoric investigation of a controversial museum collection This book considers the vast collection of skulls amassed by Samuel Morton in the first half of the nineteenth century. Craniometric studies undertaken by this Philadelphia physician and natural historian, as previous writers have noted, advanced scientific racism. In Becoming Object, Pamela Geller shows that while the characterization is accurate, it is also oversimplified. Geller uses a biohistoric approach, which examines skeletal remains and archival sources, to take a close look at the times in which Morton lived, his work, and its complicated legacy.During a pivotal moment in US history--an interlude between the nation's cohesion and its civil unraveling--Morton and colleagues encouraged and developed biomedical interventions, public health initiatives, and scientific standards. Yet they also represented certain populations as biologically inferior; diseases were tied to non-white races, suffering was gendered female, and poverty was presumed inherited. Efforts by Morton and colleagues made it easier to rationalize the deaths of disenfranchised individuals, collect their skulls from almshouse hospitals and battlefields, and transform them into objects. Ultimately, these men's studies of diseases and skulls contributed to an understanding of American citizenship that valued whiteness, Christianity, and heroic masculinity defined by violence. Though medicine came to repudiate Morton's work, his thinking became foundational for anthropology. The Morton Collection, a tangible reminder of his legacy, has become a barometer of the discipline's relationship to white supremacy and colonialism. To advance today's decolonial efforts, Becoming Object turns to the Morton Collection to document the diverse lives excluded from the body politic. To recount their stories, as Geller does, is to counter official histories, while the silences that remain hint at the subtle machinations of necropolitics.

A rapidly growing approach within bioarchaeology that focuses on understanding people of the past in their sociocultural contexts Drawing from a variety of sites throughout Mesoamerica, this volume presents a collection of osteobiographies, which analyze skeletons and their surroundings alongside historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and other contextual data to better understand the life experiences of individuals. This approach allows for a focus on the processes by which individual social identities are created, negotiated, and altered.In these chapters, contributors address what individual bodies reveal about their societies, what burials can tell us about the ways people were remembered, and what information about disease and health indicates about lifestyles. Each case study compiles a range of available data to gain insights into a specific time and place. Recreating the lives of individuals from locations in Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, the volume includes descriptions of everyday activities, the social roles of priests and merchants, memorial practices, and many other spheres of human life.Mesoamerican Osteobiographies demonstrates how the diverse, culturally laden, and complex archaeological record of Mesoamerica can uniquely contribute to bioarchaeology, in part due to the region's many unusual and elaborate mortuary contexts. The different contributions in this volume show that the osteobiography approach can be integrated into existing research frameworks, both in Mesoamerica and around the world, to answer meaningful biocultural questions about the lives and deaths of ancient people. Contributors: Pamela Geller Satoru Murata Gabriel D. Wrobel Carolyn Freiwald Kirsten Green Mink David W. Mixter Ricardo Rodas Dr. Della Cook Abigail Meza Peñaloza Ethan C. Hill Erik Velásquez García Jack Biggs Frederico Zurtuche Mónica Urquizú John Robb María Belén Méndez Bauer DR Vera Tiesler Dr. Andrew K. Scherer DR Melissa S. Murphy Lourdes Marquez Morfín Ana Maria Padilla Dorantes Dr. Andrea Cucina Paige Wojcik Woolfolk Eleanor Harrison-Buck Claire Ebert Aurora Marcela Pérez-Flórez Destiny Micklin Morgan McKenna Allan Ortega-Muñoz Kara Fulton Lexi O'Donnell Peter Mercier Omar A. Alcover-Firpi Mariah Biggs Prof Jane Buikstra Katherine Miller Wolf Keith Prufer Jaime Awe D. Eli Mrak Emily Moes Douglas J. Kennett Joshua T. Schnell Amy Hair Takeshi Inomata Mónica Rodriguez Pérez Ellen Bell Daniela Triadan Samantha Sharon Negrete Gutiérrez Alex Garcia-Putnam Anna C. Novotny Marie Danforth Lisa LeCount Loa P. Traxler Rosalba Yasmin Cifuentes Argüello Shintaro Suzuki Fernando Gutiérrez Méndez Samantha Blatt Mark Robinson Amy Michael Sandra Elizalde

A long-term view of continuity and changein a rural Amazonian community In ChroniclingAmazon Town, Richard Pace and Helena Lima bring together the work ofresearchers from a variety of fields to provide a comprehensive synthesis oflocal and regional studies in the town of Gurupá in Brazil, ranging fromarchaeological findings to ethnohistory and sociocultural anthropology. Buildingupon and critiquing Charles Wagley's 1955 book Amazon Town, the authorsin this volume focus on Gurupá as a crossroad of sociocultural changes in thelower Amazon region. Drawing on continuous research in this location since thepublication of Wagley's book, they use a longitudinal approach to examinearchaeological, historical, and contemporary cultural patterns, situating theirinvestigations within the greater Amazonian context. These chapters examine topicsincluding race and identity, kinship and marriage, gender roles, migrationpatterns, and religious and political social movements. They also addresschallenges facing sustainable development and conservation efforts in theAmazon rainforest, including extractive economies and struggles over landtenure. ChroniclingAmazon Townadds an important long-term historical understanding of Gurupá, documents howcommunity members have related to the surrounding environment and their socialcategories, and assesses the influence of regional, national, and globalprocesses. This unique book offers an extended view of continuity and change inone of the longest and most fully studied rural communities in the region.Contributors: Bruno Moraes Monte Talley Glenn H. Shepard, Jr. Gabrielle Botelho André Lima Barbara Silva Lucy Dodd Paul Chilsen Cristiana Barreto Richard Pace Kyle L. Harper Helena P. Lima Brian P. Hinote Lorena Pavão Ezequiel Barbosa da Silva Kevin McDaniel Fábio dos Passos Alho Cynthia Pace Cisneros John Ben Soileau DR Nigel J.H. Smith Dr, Andrew R. Wyatt Robson Lopes Cássia Luzia Lobato Benathar Matthew Abel Christine Printz Fernando Luiz Tavares Marques Morgan J. Schmidt Pedro Alves Vieira

Shifting the focus to everyday life in the archaeology of the Southeast USFocusing on the daily concerns, activities, and routine events of people in the past, Investigating the Ordinary argues for a paradigm shift in the way southeastern archaeologists operate and urges them to think of the archaeological record in new ways. Instead of dividing archaeological work by time periods or artifact types, the essays in this volume unite separate areas of research through the theme of the everyday. The contributors to this volume bring together case studies detailing ordinary people and their lives, spanning the Paleoindian period to the nineteenth century. The essays include an examination of how the white-tailed deer was entangled in the lives of Middle Archaic people not only as a food source but as a social and spiritual creature, as well as a look at the domestic lives of those who made exotic goods for the political and social elites in the Middle Woodland period. Cooking vessels in the Late Archaic period help trace the daily lives of the many people involved in their production, use, and eventual deposition. Mound sites are reconsidered in light of the everyday--assessing not only the meaning of the sites but the mobilization of labor and the deployment of resources that went into creating them. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that attention to everyday life can help researchers avoid overemphasizing data and jargon and instead discover connections between the people of different eras. This approach will also inspire archaeologists with ways to humanize their research and engage the public with their work and with the deep history of the southeastern United States. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Contributors: Philip J. Carr Sarah E. Price D. Shane Miller Jesse Tune Christopher B. Rodning Jayur M. Mehta Bryan S. Haley Lance Greene Kandace D. Hollenbach Stephen B. Carmody Ashley A. Dumas Christopher R. Moore Richard W. Jeffries Asa R. Randall

A close look at a Mississippi archaeological site that sheds light on a major precolonial civilization This book is the first detailed investigation of the important archaeological site of Parchman Place in the Yazoo Basin, a defining area for understanding the Mississippian culture that spanned much of what is now the United States Southeast and Midwest before the mid-sixteenth century. Refining the widely accepted theory that this society was strongly hierarchical, Erin Nelson provides data that suggest communities navigated tensions between authority and autonomy in their placemaking and in their daily lives. Drawing on archaeological evidence from foodways, monumental and domestic architecture, and the organization of communal space at the site, Nelson argues that Mississippian people negotiated contradictory ideas about what it meant to belong to a community. For example, although they clearly had powerful leaders, communities built mounds and other structures in ways that re-created their views of the cosmos, expressing values of wholeness and balance. Nelson's findings shed light on the inner workings of Mississippian communities and other hierarchical societies of the period. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

The role of women artists, collectors, archaeologists, and architects in Asian art historyFilled with exquisite color illustrations, this volume examines an underserved aspect of Asian art history by discussing women artists, collectors, archaeologists, and architects. The essays in Women across Asian Art cover a wide geographical area, from Japan to Pakistan, as they draw attention to people whose efforts have largely been left out of scholarship.The volume begins by looking at iconography representing the goddess Marici in Chinese art as well as ancient Chinese characters related to gender roles during the Shang dynasty. Contributors then discuss topics including women's participation as hangeul (Korean alphabet) calligraphers, artists in Japanese Saison culture, and early archaeologists in China. Shedding light on individuals such as poet and painter Luo Qilan, collector Brenda Zara Seligman, architect Lin Huiyin, neo-miniaturist Saira Wasim, painter Tseng Yuho, and sculptor Tayeba Begum Lipi, these essays represent a broad range of contributions from pioneers in their respective fields to current-day activists.Using primary sources, museum collections, and archival material, the contributors--curators and independent scholars--investigate their collections and fields with new strategies and present original research. As museums are intentionally turning their attention to overlooked narratives of women, this volume continues the important work of uncovering their stories in Asian art history. Contributors: Melia Belli Bose Sati Benes Chock Shana J. Brown Janet C. Chen Insoo Cho Wei-Cheng Lin Ling-en Lu Nick Pearce Allysa B. Peyton Junko Uchida Midori Yamamura Saleema Waraich

Exploring the impacts of NASA'sspace program on American society and culture After Apollo explores howNASA's space program impacted American society during and after the race to theMoon, looking back at the 1969 Apollo 11 Moonlanding from the perspective of the present day. Centering on the humandimension of spaceflight, this multidisciplinary book contains chapters thataddress the effects of the space race on science, politics, art, fashion, andpopular culture. Severalessays cover themes that directly touch on the space program itself, such asthe sheer improbability of the Moon landing, the hidden chemistry behind humanspaceflight, and the critical role played by immigrants in making spaceexploration a reality. Others consider societal repercussions, such as how immense space expenditures drew attention tounderfunded social programs and paved the way for Great Society sociallegislation, as well as how cultural narratives of exploration and the frontierevolved as the program's goals changed. Many of the authors look at theinterplay between art and space exploration, beginning with the role of popularentertainment in selling spaceflight to the public. Showcasingthe work of contributors representing diverse areasof study, After Apollo details themany and varied human impacts and cultural spin-offs that came to pass as the mythologyand eventual reality of space travel permeated American society.Contributors: J Bret Bennington Matthew H. Hersch Rodney F. Hill RosannaPerotti Chris Robinson Patricia Rossi Sabrina Sobel James Spiller Allison Whitney Julie Wosk

Howan overlooked film industry became a cinematic force The first book in English dedicated to thestudy of Central American film, this volume explores the main trends, genres, and themes that define this emerging industry. The seven nations of the regionhave seen an unprecedented growth in film production during the twenty-first centurywith the creation of over 200 feature-length films compared with just one inthe 1990s. This volume provides a needed overview of one of the least exploredcinemas in the world. In these essays, various scholars of film and cultural studies fromaround the world provide insights into the continuities and discontinuities betweentwentieth- and twenty-first-century cinematic production on the Isthmus. They discusshow political, social, and environmental factors, along with new production modesand aesthetics, have led to a corpus of films that delve into issues of thepast and present such as postwar memory, failed revolutions, trauma, migration, popular culture, minority populations, and gender disparities. From Salvadoran documentaries to Costa Rican comedies and Panamaniansports films, the movies analyzed here demonstrate the region's flourishingfilm industry and the diversity of approaches found within it. The Rise of CentralAmerican Film in the Twenty-First Century pays homage to an overlookedcultural phenomenon and shows the importance of regional cinema studies.Contributors: Liz Harvey-Kattou Daniela Granja Núñez Carolina Sanabria Juan Carlos Rodríguez MaríaLourdes Cortés Júlia González de Canales Carcereny Arno Jacob Argueta Tomás Arce Mairena Dr. Mauricio Espinoza Lilia García Torres Dr. JaredList Patricia Arroyo Calderón Esteban E. Loustaunau Héctor FernándezL'Hoeste Juan Pablo Gómez Lacayo Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture inLatin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publication of this work made possible by aSustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from theNational Endowment for the Humanities.

How the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut wasdesigned and reimagined over timeInthis book, Cathleen Lewis discusses how the public image of the Sovietcosmonaut developed beginning in the 1950s and the ways this icon has beenreinterpreted throughout the years and in contemporary Russia. Compilingmaterial and cultural representations of the cosmonaut program, Lewis providesa new perspective on the story of Soviet spaceflight, highlighting how the governmenthas celebrated figures such as Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova through newspapers, radio, parades, monuments, museums, films, and even postage stamps and lapelpins. Lewis's analysis shows that during the SpaceRace, Nikita Khrushchev mobilized cosmonaut stories and images to symbolize theforward-looking Soviet state and distract from the costs of the Cold War. Publicperceptions shifted after the first Soviet spaceflight fatality and failure toreach the Moon, yet cosmonaut imagery was still effective propaganda, evolvingthrough the USSR's collapse in 1991 and seen today in Vladimir Putin's governmentcooperation for a film on the 1985 rescue of the Salyut 7 space station. Lookingclosely at the process through which Russians continue to reexamine their past, Lewis argues that the cultural memory of spaceflight remains especially potent amongother collective Soviet memories.

Life in an Indigenous town during anunderstudied era of Haitian history Thisbook details the Indigenous Taíno occupation at En Bas Saline in Hispaniola betweenAD 1250 and 1520, showing how the community coped with the dramatic changesimposed by Spanish contact. En Bas Saline is the largest late precontact Taínotown recorded in what is now Haiti; the only one that has been extensivelyexcavated and analyzed; and one of few with archaeologically documentedoccupation both before and after the arrival of Columbus in 1492. It is thoughtto be the site of La Navidad, Columbus's first settlement, where the cacique Guacanagaríoffered refuge and shelter after the sinking of the Santa María. KathleenDeagan providesan intrasite and spatial analysis of En Bas Saline by focusing on households, foodways, ceramics, and crafts and offers insights into social organization andchiefly power in this political center through domestic and ornamental materialculture. Postcontact changes are seen in patterns of gendered behavior, as wellas in the power base of the caciques, challenging the traditional assumptionthat Taíno society was devastatingly disrupted almost immediately aftercontact. En Bas Saline is the onlyarchaeological account of the consequences of contact from the perspective ofthe Taíno peoples' lived experience. Avolume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

How online humor influences politics andculture in Latin America Thisvolume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin American perspective onthe role of humor in the Spanish- and Portuguese-language internet, highlightinghow the production and circulation of online humor influence the region'srelation to democracy and civil society and the production of meaning ineveryday life. Severalcase studies consider memes, including discussions of political cartoons inMexico and imagery that portrays the mismanagement of natural disasters inPuerto Rico. Essays on Brazil examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by JairBolsonaro supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers memesas political commentary. Other case studies consider video content, including thesketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo Aquino, the short-form material of Chileanvlogger Germán Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalistsin Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying thelaughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake Twitter accounts. Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America demonstrates that internet humor can generate novelmeans of public interaction with the political and cultural spheres and creategreater expectations of governmental accountability and democraticparticipation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious attention tohumorous digital content as part of contemporary culture.Contributors: Eva Paulina Bueno Juan Poblete AlbertoCenteno-Pulido Damián Fraticelli Juan Carlos Rodríguez Viktor Chagas Paul Alonso Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste AlejandraNallely Collado Campos R. Sánchez-Rivera Mélodine Sommier Fábio Marquesde Souza Avolume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/oAmerica, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publicationof this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the AmericanRescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

First-person accounts that show the expandingdemographics of African-descended religions In this focused portrayal of global dispersal and spiritual sojourning, Martin Tsang draws together first-person accounts of the evolving Afro-Atlantic religious landscape. Spirited Diasporas offers a glimpse into the frequently misunderstood religions of Afro-Cuban Lucumí, Haitian Vodou, and Brazilian Candomblé, adding to the growing research on the transnational yet personal nature of African diasporic religions.In these accounts, practitioners from many origins illustrate the work and commitment they undertook to learn and become initiated in these traditions. They reveal in the process a variety of experiences that are not often documented. Their perspectives also show the expanding contemporary demographics of African-descended religions, many of whose members identify as LGBTQIA+ or are part of other minoritized populations, and they counter inaccurate and often racialized portrayals of these religions as being antimodern and geographically limited. Through the voices of the professionals, scholars, and activists gathered here, readers will appreciate the purpose andbelonging to be found in the far-reaching communities of these Latin Americanand Caribbean spiritualities. As the seekers in these stories discover and comehome to their new religious families, Spirited Diasporas displays the relevanceand generative power of these traditions.Contributors: Morgan M. Page Michael Atwood Mason Eugenia Rainey Alex Bettencourt Solimar Otero Yoshiaki Koshikawa Belia Mayeno Saavedra Sue Kucklick-Arencibia IvorMiller Terri-Dawn González Dr. Martin A. Tsang Giovanna Capponi PhilippeCharlier

This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries, illuminating the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.

"In the first history of Spanish-language television in the United States, Craig Allen traces the development of two prominent yet little-studied powerhouses: Univision and Telemundo. Allen tells the inside story of how these networks fought enormous odds to rise as giants of mass communication, questioning monolingual and Anglo-centered versions of U.S. television history"--

Illuminating theactivism of Black women during Cuba's prerevolutionary periodIn Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy. Brunson takes a much-needed intersectional approach to the political history of the era, examining how Black women's engagement with questions of Cuban citizenship intersected with racial prejudice, gender norms, and sexual politics, incorporating Afro-diasporic and Latin American feminist perspectives.Brunson demonstrates that between the 1886 abolition of slavery in Cuba and the 1959 Revolution, Black women--without formal political power--navigated political movements in their efforts to create a more just society. She examines how women helped build a Black public sphere as they claimed moral respectability and sought racial integration. She reveals how Black women entered into national women's organizations, labor unions, and political parties to bring about legal reforms. Brunson shows how women of African descent achieved individual victories as part of a collective struggle for social justice; in doing so, she highlights how racism and sexism persisted even as legal definitions of Cuban citizenship evolved.

Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section Best Book PrizeLatin American Studies Association Historia Reciente y Memoria Section Best Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Conference on Latin American HistorySusan M. Socolow and Lyman L. Johnson PrizeThe role of documentary photography in exposing and protesting the crimes of a dictatorship After Augusto Pinochet rose to power in Chile in 1973, his government abducted, abused, and executed thousands of his political opponents. The Insubordination of Photography is the first book to analyze how various collectives, organizations, and independent media used photography to expose and protest the crimes of Pinochet's authoritarian regime. Ángeles Donoso Macaya discusses the ways human rights groups such as the Vicariate of Solidarity used portraits of missing persons in order to make forced disappearances visible. She also calls attention to forensic photographs that served as incriminating evidence of government killings in the landmark Lonquén case. Donoso Macaya argues that the field of documentary photography in Chile was challenged and shaped by the precariousness of the nation's politics and economics and shows how photojournalists found creative ways to challenge limitations imposed on the freedom of the press.In a culture saturated by disinformation and cover-ups and restricted by repression and censorship, photography became an essential tool to bring the truth to light. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and other archival material, this book reflects on the integral role of images in public memory and issues of reparation and justice. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated and at times painful history. Yet Transnational Hispaniola shows that there is much more to the two nations' relationship than their perceived antagonism. Rejecting dominant narratives that reinforce opposition between the two sides of the island, contributors to this volume highlight the connections and commonalities that extend across the border, mapping new directions in Haitianist and Dominicanist scholarship. Exploring a variety of topics including European colonialism, migration, citizenship, sex tourism, music, literature, political economy, and art, contributors demonstrate that alternate views of Haitian and Dominican history and identity have existed long before the present day. From a moving section on passport petitions that reveals the familial, friendship, and communal networks across Hispaniola in the nineteenth century to a discussion of the shared music traditions that unite the island today, this volume speaks of an island and people bound together in a myriad of ways. Complete with reflections and advice on teaching a transnational approach to Haitian and Dominican studies, this agenda-setting volume argues that the island of Hispaniola and its inhabitants should be studied in a way that contextualizes differences, historicizes borders, and recognizes cross-island links. Contributors: Paul Austerlitz | Nathalie Bragadir | Raj Chetty | Anne Eller | Kaiama L. Glover | Maja Horn | Regine Jean-Charles | Kiran C. Jayaram | Elizabeth Manley | April Mayes | Elizabeth Russ | Fidel J. Tavrez | Elena ValdezPublication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.