A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present (review)

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-399
Author(s):  
Rae Gould
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
History Of

A record of late-Holocene environmental change from southern New England, USA

2011 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Wyatt Oswald ◽  
David R. Foster
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Organic Content ◽  
Pollen Record ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
Dry Conditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town

AbstractAnalyses of a sediment core from Little Pond, located in the town of Bolton, Massachusetts, provide new insights into the history of environmental and ecological changes in southern New England during the late Holocene. Declines in organic content and peaks in the abundance of Isoetes spores indicate reduced water depth at 2900–2600, 2200–1800, and 1200–800 calibrated years before present (cal yr BP), generally consistent with the timing of dry conditions in records from elsewhere in the northeastern United States. The Little Pond pollen record features little change over the last 3000 yr, indicating that the surrounding vegetation was relatively insensitive to these periods of drought. The 1200–800 cal yr BP dry interval, however, coincides with increased abundance of Castanea pollen, suggesting that the expansion of Castanea in southern New England may have been influenced by late-Holocene climatic variability.

The Puritans and Music in England and New England. A Contribution to the Cultural History of Two Nations

1935 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. Murdock ◽  
Percy A. Scholes
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Rupturing Salem, Reconsidering Subjectivity: Tituba, the Witch of Infinity in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Junghyun Hwang
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
American Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mccarthy Era ◽  
Community Boundaries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Witch

The Salem witch-hunt, invoking the “red hunt” analogy of the McCarthy era, has been a persistent metaphor for persecution, a symbol of fanatic excess in policing the community boundaries. In American cultural history, however, Salem is regarded American only insofar as it proves un-American—as an exception to American exceptionalism. In particular, Tituba, the only non-white “witch” of the trials to whom the unleashing of the hysteria itself has often been attributed, embodies what is negated in Salem against which Americanness is to be affirmed. Maryse Condé’s 1986 novel, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem recuperates Tituba from this darkness not only to reconfigure American identity but ultimately to reconsider human subjectivity. In Condé’s Salem, New England Puritanism showcases the primal scene of American identity formation, in which the personal, national, and religious subjectivities are fused to form the American self as the autonomous self-possessed individual. Tituba, in contrast, exemplifies an alternative subjectivity as an embodied being constituted in relation to others. Similar to Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical subject, Condé’s Tituba highlights the primacy of the other in the formation of the human subject, ultimately rupturing the totality of history with a counter-history of silenced voices or the infinity of the other.

The Archaeology of Magunkaquog

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-73
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Mrozowski
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
New England ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
Town Meeting ◽  
John Eliot ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Praying Town

Chapter 3 details the history of the Magunkaquog site from the features and material culture recovered through archaeological investigations in the late 1990s, combined with information from documentary records. With this site, the location of a seventeenth-century praying town meeting house, collaboration began between the archaeologists and the Nipmuc Nation. Certain practices revealed through archaeology conducted at this site provide clear evidence of a continuum between the post-contact inhabitants at Magunkaquog and their pre-contact cultural practices. Connections to other Native sites in southern New England also exist. Analyses of soils, ceramics, metals, glass, pipes, lithics, buttons and other artifacts provide a glimpse into the everyday lives of the site’s inhabitants 350 years ago as they encountered intense cultural changes with the arrival of John Eliot and other European settlers coupled with the adoption of European products into their lives.

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