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APPC Minutes – September 9, 2025
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, September 9, 2025
Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Traditions: Reclaiming Sovereignty Through 500 Years of Colonization
No full textIn Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Traditions, Stephanie Sellers delves into the rich history of Indigenous women’s reproductive practices before European colonization. The book highlights traditional methods such as birth control, abortion, and child spacing, which were integral to maintaining agency over their bodies. Sellers explores how these practices were disrupted by European patriarchal structures and examines the impact of forced sterilization in the 20th century. Today, Indigenous women are reclaiming their rights through movements for reproductive justice, advocating for a return to their ancestral practices and redefining concepts of womanhood and motherhood on their own tribal terms.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1211/thumbnail.jp
To Be at Peace : Indigenous Women, Interethnic Marriages, and Cunhamenas in Northwestern Amazonia, 1730-1755
No full textExogamous marriage among Northwest Amazonian peoples structured exchange networks, interethnic relations, and settlement patterns during eighteenth-century European imperial expansion. Exchange and reciprocity offered a path to social stability within a highly conflictive environment characterized by warfare and slaving. Arawakan, Cariban, and Tukanoan leaders and outsiders, among them men from Belém, the Portuguese capital of the State of Maranhão and Grão-Pará, exchanged gifts and people. The leaders presented their female relatives to make alliances and extend their social networks. Those who accepted the women and became integrated into Indigenous communities were known as cunhamenas, or in-laws. New evidence from Inquisition files in Lisbon details these exchanges and the relationships that developed between individuals and groups. This long-held Indigenous social practice also shaped residential patterns in the downriver missions and contributed to the formation and consolidation of a highly diverse population. After the mid-eighteenth century, however, Portuguese authorities imposed Catholic norms to break up multiple marriages, which diminished Indigenous leaders’ social prestige, separated women from their co-wives, and disrupted alliances. Instead, the Crown encouraged monogamous marriages between Indigenous women and Portuguese soldiers. Rebellion erupted in the Rio Negro missions. This article presents an overview of regional interethnic alliances through marriage and contends that Indigenous exogamous practices were key to historical interaction, exchange, and social development in the Brazilian North
Oh my Gods! Representations of Deities from the Mughal Empire to Mexico
No full textWebsite with research showcasing four global works that feature representations of deities from multiple different cultures and religions. Includes a detached Folio of Krishna Killing the Demon Nikhumba from the Mughal Empire, A statue of Daoist Deity Zenwhu with Two Attendants from China, A figure of the Chicomecoatl Godess from the Aztec Empire, and a golden Face of Bhairava sculpture from Nepal. The website explores different depictions of these religious figures and how that informs religious worship of these figures
Journey of a Helmet: How the Art of Armor Crossed Cultures
No full textMuch like fashion influences and impacts the everyday clothing of people throughout history, it has also influenced the aesthetics of armor and styles of decoration of said armor. pieces of armor became canvases for cultural expression, plates of iron and steel, ripe for engraving or painting, symbols of allegiance, grandeur and wealth. With the advent of trade across cultures miles apart, armor and its decor evolved over the course of years of cross-cultural trade and interaction, some potentially spanning back hundreds if not thousands of years. This web-page explores the interactions, similarities, differences, and influences of armor construction and decor between cultures across Eurasia
Indigenous Ecofeminisms as (Re)Mapping Projects: An Interview with FIlmmaker Nanobah Becker
No full textThis chapter introduces the concept of Indigenous ecofeminisms, a term that characterizes the intersections between race, gender,and environment as expressed by contemporary Indigenous women filmmakers,like Nanobah Becker (Navajo/Diné). In fleshing out this concept, the chapter traces three thematic strands central to Becker\u27s work: how she reclaims colonized spaces (e.g. Monument Valley and Los Angeles) as Indigenous home, how she works both off- and on-screen to foreground collaboration and fluid gender identity as an essential element of her filmmaking, and how she understands the way virtual screens are networked with material sensations in our bodies. In all, the chapter argues that filmmakers like Becker offer a sense of cinematic place as socioculturally and materially entangled in Indigenous epistemologies and cosmologies that help (re)map and collapse typical binaries erected between environment, race and gender issues
Smart Strategies: The Impact of Social Media and AI in Modern Marketing
Full text linkIn recent times, social media and artificial intelligence (AI) have become increasingly popular in the world of marketing. With these technologies, companies can more efficiently and effectively find consumers and create tailored product advertisements. AI has helped companies segment consumers, identify trends, and predict consumer needs. Social media has created a platform in which companies can connect with consumers and gain direct feedback. Additionally, it has created a space in which anyone can become an influencer or market a product. With the evolution of technology and digital marketing, it has also become increasingly important for companies to use high quality images. While this technology has been useful in the advancement of marketing, privacy and honestly in product reviews there are some caveats
“To Ponder and Dream”: Gettysburg’s Conflict Heritage and Cultural Constructions of History in its Museums
Full text linkAfter providing brief historical context and a review of relevant literature, this paper analyzes four overarching concerns that inform the work of Gettysburg’s museums and historical organizations: ensuring commercial success, including underrepresented stories without alienating visitors, balancing scholarly and emotional approaches, and acknowledging the larger political implications of their choices. Using an anthropological approach, this work shows how these larger economic, social, and political concerns influence the construction of history and memory in a conflict heritage site like Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
