Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Taunton, Rachel L. J., Thesis advisor (ths): Keefer, Katrina, Thesis advisor (ths): McGuire, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Schwarz, Suzanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Nguyen-Marshall, Van, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis demonstrates how the proper application of theoretical archaeological and osteological methods to archival documents can be both illuminating and vital to create a fuller understanding of those who have been historically silenced. By performing an archival analysis informed by an archaeological background, the first four volumes of the Registers of Liberated Africans from… more Full Text: ARCHIVES OF SKIN AND BONE: AN ARCHIVAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND TRAUMATIC INJURY AMONG THE LIBERATED AFRICANS OF SIERRA LEONE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for …
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>In dialogue with the critical scholarship on war and remembrance, my research deals with the construction, contestation and negotiation of collective memory in contemporary Vietnam with a focus on commemorations devoted to dead soldiers. Utilizing the methodologies of cultural studies and ethnography, this research seeks to comprehend the politics of memory which characterize collective… more Full Text: POLITICS OF MEMORY: (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST IN POST-SOCIALIST VIETNAM A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …
