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"Monuments to a Nation Gone By": Fortified Houses, King Philip's War, and the Remaking of a New England Frontier, 1675-1725

Description:
During King Philip's War (1675-1676) in New England, English colonists and a small number of enslaved Africans and "friendly" Indians used dwelling houses as places …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Porter, Colin Arms (creator)
Rubertone, Patricia (Director)
Simmons, William (Reader)
Anderson, Douglas (Reader)
McBride, Kevin (Reader)
Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Garrison houses
King Philip's War
Historical archaeology
War and memory
King Philip's War (1675-1676)
Archaeology and history
New England
Collection:
Anthropology
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

'Population Prescriptions': State, Morality, and Population Politics in Contemporary Russia

Description:
This dissertation explores how post-Soviet Russia's demographic reality came to be conceived of as a dramatic national problem and as an object of government intervention. …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Leykin, Inna (creator)
Smith, Daniel (Director)
Lutz, Catherine (Reader)
Brown, Keith (Reader)
Rivkin-Fish, Michele (Reader)
Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Population Politics
Postsocialism
Anthropology of the State
Kinship and Family
Collection:
Anthropology
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

1998 departure

Description:
  • Original Medium: 35mm color
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1998
2004
Contributor:
Houston, Stephen D.
Genre:
people (agents)
Subject:
Archaeology
Maya
Piedras Negras Site (Guatemala)
Local ID:
7544
5736
no info
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

1998 departure, men on a canoe

Description:
  • Original Medium: 35mm color
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1998
2004
Contributor:
Houston, Stephen D.
Genre:
people (agents)
Subject:
Archaeology
Maya
Piedras Negras Site (Guatemala)
Local ID:
7545
5737
no info
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

2 men in front of pyramid complex

Description:
  • Original Medium: 35mm color
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1905
2004
Contributor:
Houston, Stephen D.
Genre:
structures (single built works)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras Site (Mexico)
Local ID:
6007
4233
no info
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

2 men looking intently at something on top of structure mound

Description:
  • Original Medium: 35mm color
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1905
2004
Contributor:
Houston, Stephen D.
Genre:
structures (single built works)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras Site (Mexico)
Local ID:
5951
4177
no info
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

2000 Piedras Negras crew in front of sweatbath P-7

Description:
  • Original Medium: 35mm color
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1905
2004
Contributor:
Houston, Stephen D.
Genre:
people (agents)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras Site (Mexico)
Local ID:
5431
3657
P-7
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

2000 Piedras Negras crew, close shot

Description:
  • Original Medium: 35mm color
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1905
2004
Contributor:
Houston, Stephen D.
Genre:
people (agents)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras Site (Mexico)
Local ID:
5440
3666
no info
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

3 eccentrics from cache

Year:
2004
Genre:
artifacts (object genre)
Local ID:
6099
no info
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

: a view of the jungle with a ruin in the background

Description:
  • Original Medium: 120mm B&W
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
  • same as 1990 and 1993 but darker
Year:
2004
Genre:
jungles
structures (single built works)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras (Mexico)
Local ID:
1994
232
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

: broken pot apparently in situ

Description:
  • Original Medium: 120mm B&W
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
  • nice photo
Year:
1999
2004
Genre:
artifacts (object genre)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras (Mexico)
Local ID:
2145
362
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

: looking down at a corner of a foundation

Description:
  • Original Medium: 120mm B&W
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1999
2004
Genre:
structures (single built works)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras (Mexico)
Local ID:
2102
319
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

: looking down on a foundation

Description:
  • Original Medium: 120mm B&W
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
  • same as 2099, kind of ugly
Year:
1999
2004
Genre:
structures (single built works)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras (Mexico)
Local ID:
2100
347
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

: prob. pits of PN48A on the Acropolis

Description:
  • Original Medium: 120mm B&W
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1999
2004
Contributor:
Arredondo?
Genre:
structures (single built works)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras (Mexico)
Local ID:
2079
296
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

: probably pits of PN48A on the Acropolis

Description:
  • Original Medium: 120mm B&W
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1999
2004
Genre:
structures (single built works)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras (Mexico)
Local ID:
2083
310
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

: trees growing on a low mound of rubble-- possibly RS27: stripping of plaza group?

Description:
  • Original Medium: 120mm B&W
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
  • same as 1951 but much clearer and lighter
Year:
1999
2004
Genre:
structures (single built works)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras (Mexico)
Local ID:
1957
183
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

: two people sitting on a mound in the jungle working

Description:
  • Original Medium: 120mm B&W
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
  • pretty dark photo, rendering people very difficult to recognize
Year:
1999
2004
Genre:
people (agents)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras (Mexico)
Local ID:
2084
311
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

: two workers next to a trench in the jungle

Description:
  • Original Medium: 120mm B&W
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1999
2004
Genre:
people (agents)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras (Mexico)
Local ID:
2097
344
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

a bowl in situ

Description:
  • Original Medium: 35mm color
  • Image Manipulations from Original: image sizing, brightness/contrast
Year:
1905
2004
Contributor:
Houston, Stephen D.
Genre:
artifacts (object genre)
Subject:
Archaeology
Mayas
Piedras Negras Site (Mexico)
Local ID:
5386
3612
no info
Collection:
Anthropology
Excavations
Piedras Negras Images
Full Record

A Geo-ethnographic Investigation of Access to Coffee Shops in Providence, Rhode Island

Description:
This project explores three specific themes highlighted by instances of “coffee shop racism”: the ways large corporations like Starbucks accumulate mass amounts of economic resources …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Walls III, Daniel (creator)
Besky, Sarah (Advisor)
Brown University. Department of Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
cultural studies
Gentrification
food environment
Coffee
geo-ethnography
post-industrial policing
sensory lexicons
food regimes of capital
post-ingestive sensations
consumer involvement
Collection:
Anthropology
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

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