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Canterbury’s Shaker Museum: Curating the Past During Times of Change and Crisis
No full textThe Shaker Museum began in 1860 as the brainchild of Canterbury elder Henry Blinn. Although Canterbury’s museum may have started as the pet project of Elder Henry Blinn, the sisters who inherited responsibility for it in the early 1900s embraced it as their own. Despite a plethora of work responsibilities that sapped their time and energy, they prioritized and valued the museum, perhaps viewing it as one way of ensuring their legacy at a time when the Shaker world was rocked by pessimism, crises, and an ever-declining membership
Maturity in Children\u27s Literature
Full text linkIn this day and age, it is very common for children\u27s media to be viewed as more as a form of distraction rather than a source of education. By taking such a notion into account, this project aims to create a children\u27s book which is not only appealing to younger readers, but also manages to treat them with respect by exploring mature topics and themes. This project is an illustrated, 80-page children\u27s short story which explores natural disasters, sickness, and the importance of family in times of hardship. The story follows a semi-autobiographical retelling of the author\u27s experiences during a series of earthquakes which occurred in Nicaragua in 2014, and during a period in which his grandfather was very sick. These topics were chosen due to how they relate to modern day problems, especially those regarding the recent pandemic; an event which many children are still be processing. Through these experiences, the author creates a story which not only aims to entertain, but also help young readers gain a better understanding of complicated emotions and events
Johann Adam Gruber – His Life and Times
No full textJohann Adam Gruber was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in 1693, the only son of Eberhard Ludwig Gruber, founder of the Community of True Inspiration. Gruber underwent a thirty-seven -month period during his early twenties during which he was inspired to deliver over eight hundred testimonies. These included his “24 Rules Forming the Basis of the Faith of the Community of Pure Inspiration” is still read and discussed in Amana Church. A poet and lyricist, he along with his wife migrated to Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1726, where he lived until his death in 1763
Places to Pray: A Survey of Inspirationist Meeting Houses
No full textVarious “plain” religious groups have used the term “meeting house” to refer to their worship spaces for centuries. These groups, including the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), Shakers, Harmonists, and others, adopted forms of worship that were intentionally in contrast with mainstream Christian religious systems. This study examines the development of the Versammlungssaal (meeting house) and related worship structures in the Community of True Inspiration, better known today as the Amana Society after its later incarnation as one of the longest-lived and most successful communal societies in the United States (1842-1932). The Inspirationist
The Dead\u27s Guide to Healing
Full text linkAn inventory does not exist on its own. Through this project I learned about the composition of inventories and pharmacopeias. And with more exposure I realized that each list is a reflection of the environment it was created in. While it may seem simple, sometimes when looking exclusively it was easy to forget its humanity. Somebody had to decide what would go in their inventory. As a researcher part of the Global Pharmacopeia team, I am interested in how human experience shaped the development of medical inventories. I wanted to know how these lists came to be. In the process I would ask myself questions like, where can I find the humanity within their list making? Why was this? order decided? Who chose to write in the first place? The biggest challenge following this framework is sometimes the list does not show enough. However, there is knowledge that is seen and sometimes we do not see it. Barriers like language and unique naming practices prevent us from immediately seeing the importance of the archives we studied. This past summer I worked closely with documents from Spanish speaking nations in the context of colonialism and in European scientific space. Furthermore, I worked closely with understanding language and its relationship with knowledge accessibility through transcriptions and translations of archival documents. Medical knowledge is wrapped up in human choices, each with a history of experiential and experimental knowledge. This project became a study on the choices of the dead: a dead’s guide to healing
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Wake Up: The Urgent Appeal of Allan Pred
No full textWe are living in what geographer Allan Pred called an “extended moment of danger.” Accelerations of capitalist modernity have for decades yielded new sensibilities and situations that have given way to crises of democracy across the globe. While the sentiment that we are living in precarious time has been expressed by many over the years, we believe it to be extraordinarily apt today, and that Allan Pred\u27s later work offers a set of illuminations and methods with which to interrogate, re-present, and make the dangers more intelligible. In this introduction to the special issue “Brute Facts: Hauntings, Racisms and Collective Amnesia” we contend that his work (e.g., concepts of situated ignorance; collective amnesia; the taken-for-granted) helps us understand the intensification of deep and abiding global problems. Pred advanced a way to re-think accepted philosophies of history, progress, goodness, cultural boundedness and other taken-for-granted ideas that are often complex and difficult to make sense of. He developed approaches to examining how political economic shifts impact and are reworked in local, everyday experiences and collective identities, giving rise, for example, to changing dominant discourses of power and contestations created by social subjects in differentially situated locations of gender, race, class, and ethnicity
Placemaking Theory and Geospatial Analyses: Examining Site Transformation from Settlement to Cemetery in Bronze Age Transylvania
Full text linkThis paper examines the history of burial activity at Râmeţ in Transylvania, Romania in the context of Bronze Age cultural groups and their customs and practices. Material findings obtained during fieldwork and excavations include pottery sherds and bones. Preliminary analysis of these items was conducted in coordination with local experts and government officials, and the material findings are subsequently considered here through the perspective of placemaking theory. Placemaking theory is typically used in research about urban development, and the reciprocal relationship between people and the environment -- how they interact and shape each other. Applying this theoretical lens to an archaeological context provides a framework through which the physical transformation of the burial space from a settlement to cemetery may be more fully understood, specifically by tracking the development of cultural shifts in mortuary practices and interactions during the Early Bronze Age. Regional trends of site transformation are considered by visual representations of specific site locations in maps. Additional geospatial data attained with drone aerial survey methods complements the field-level analysis. The implications of findings contribute to the development of a museum exhibit and civic engagement in Romania, with discussion of how to convey the archaeological evidence to a public audience