Ferguson’s approach through material culture and landscape analysis can help contemporary Americans understand slavery in ways that historical documents cannot offer. The danger in his approach to race and ethnicity is the isolation of one ethnic group from larger contexts and larger relationships with other racial or ethnic groups, classes, epistemologies, or political frameworks. Issues inherent to the project include the problem of origins (meaning what was translated to the New World from Africa), emphasis on spheres of power, and a narrow interpretation of African American race, ethnicity, and blackness. Nonetheless, Uncommon Ground remains a watershed book in the history of historical archaeologies of race and
Benin art was produced mainly for the court of the Oba of Benin who was a divine ruler for whom the craftsmen produced a range of ceremonially significant objects. Aside from producing work to promote spiritual and religious devotion, Benin Art includes a range of animal heads, figurines, busts, plaques, and other artifacts. Typical Benin art materials include bronze, brass, clay, ivory, terracotta, and wood. During the reign of the Kingdom of Benin, the characteristics of the artwork changed from thin castings and careful treatment to thick, less defined castings and generalized features due to the important changes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been crucial to Benin history because it was a period of Portuguese settlement and artistic grounding.
"Yoruba facial stripes are only produced by scarification and not by paint or tattoos" Orie (2011, para. 2). Anthropologists have noted that scarification is the predominate type of body marking among African tribes. African cultures use scarification marks as identifiers amongst tribes as a tool to separate themselves from outsiders. As an example, men, women, and children are often governed to facial scarification to divide their tribe from other local tribes.
EDC 1501 Semester 1 assignment 2 Unique number 864932 Africa has a large variety of cultures and ethnicities all intermingle within one another. This includes Western as well as African ways of thinking. Classrooms in Africa will ultimately have a mixture of Western and African philosophies where one philosophy may be in dominance over the other. Western philosophy puts the individual at the centre of life where African philosophy puts the community at the centre of life. The learner most lightly feels withdrawn and fails to participate in classroom activities because he/she feels like an individual rather than feeling like a member of the community of the classroom.
Published within a year after the attack and written for a public readership the attitudes therein can be understood to reflect the general mind-set towards Benin at the end of the 19th century. Initially, the authors refer to the Benin Bronzes as “curious objects” - in keeping with an anthropological point-of-view, but also suggesting they shared the general belief that Africa produced only ‘primitive’ or
The Art of Benin. Part 1. Option B. Read carefully the following piece of text. What does it tell us about cross cultural encounters?
c.) The varying interpretations indicate the use of “presentism” throughout the periods in which the affair has been analyzed. During the civil rights movement, use of the term “blacks” to describe the slave population was seen as one of the main points of insensitivity, because African Americans of the time had such little cultural footing in America. After the 60s, students began to reflect on Jefferson’s unwillingness to see integration as an option, because African Americans were still struggling to integrate after the civil rights movements. Modern day, the concern lies in Jefferson’s blatant stereotyping of slaves as lesser and even as “musical”. These all reflect the current ideals of the time in
This book is about the obscured settlers who laid the foundation for African American culture; it is also about the recent beginning of African American Archaeology as a means for learning about that culture. African Americans felt strong ties to their native African culture, while it was commonly believed that most Africans had lost their cultural traditions and skills during the disorienting relocation from their home to the New World, it can be easily proven through the use of different sources which include artifactual and architectural data, that the African American people were trying to maintain their racial identity and cultural traditions. Ceramics are what make up a majority of the artifacts which archaeologists uncover at a site. By examining the different pots and colonoware plantation slave workers owned, historical archaeologists can determine a great deal about their daily lives. For example the typical colonoware associated with slaves were unglazed wares, which differ from the glazed wares used by wealthier Europeans.
The history that followed has been a sad and unfortunate story that has still not let up for it’s beautiful and unique impoverished peoples whom strongly believe and follow a religion that has brought them all pain and mysticism. Haiti was started as an enslaved country that shared the island of Hispaniola and was at first a country that was ran by white Frenchmen for the metropolis of France and not really for the actual production purposes at least at first. The plantations were small and maintained by a small minority of slaves and freed Blacks in the country that is now known as Haiti, they produced coffee, sugar, and cotton. Later with the rise in the popular tastes of sugar cane Haiti and Jamaica became some of the top producers and plantation operators. They were a
Did they still keep their self-respect? Self-respect goes a long way and can only be determined by their actions that were put fourth throughout history. The answer to this question can only be based on the history of the African diaspora as a whole rather than a single person’s African American history. Most slaves did maintained their self- respect; they still knew who they were and where they came from. As a result of attempting to uphold their self-respect, many slaves rebelled and ran away, they refused to be treated in such a manner.