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: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This study analyzes Christian European perceptions of group identity and beliefs in early modern geographic literature, as exemplified by John Ogilby's Africa (1670), a selective translation of Olfert Dapper's 1668 work, and its descriptions of West-Central Africa. Ogilby's work, congruently with contemporary geographic literature, employed the Christian religion as a key… more Full Text: SIGNALLING BELIEFS IN OGILBY’S AFRICA: REPRESENTATIONS OF RELIGION AND GROUP IDENTITIES IN WEST-CENTRAL AFRICA A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …
