“A Small Brick Pile for the Indians”: The 1655 Harvard Indian College as Setting

Hodge, Christina J.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6211-8_14

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“…In this institutional setting, there is no Native American material culture to stand as an icon for hybridizing practices. Archaeological evidence indicates little difference in the material culture of daily life at the Indian College from the rest of the College, suggesting a homogeneity of practice and experience (Hodge, 2013; Hodge et al., 2015; Stubbs et al., 2010; see also Silliman, 2009). There are no material or documentary residues of non-European practices as popularly recognized.…”

Section: Contemporary Longingsmentioning

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“…Mimicry was definitely at play in the College's goal to create Puritan ministers who could be identified through dress, language, and comportment. College archives have not recorded the details of individual acts of mimicry, which could be interpreted as mockery in this period, however, this is not to say that Native American and European students actively sought to subvert College ideals (Hodge, 2013; Hodge et al, 2015). The materiality of this particular colonial experience that was created by both Native American and English students using European material culture.…”

Section: Contemporary Longingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Seeing hybridity in the anthropology museum: Practices of longing and fetishization

Loren

2015

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Hybrid colonial objects are potent. Simply stated, hybrid colonial objects in museum contexts are defined as those items that contain material characteristics of both colonizer and the colonized. These objects are constituted in complex colonial contexts, resulting from the adoption and fusing of elements of style, manufacture, material, and meaning from distinct intellectual and cultural legacies, which were themselves hybrids. While hybridized material culture was used alongside more familiar, perhaps non-hybrid objects, archaeologists encounter hybrid colonial objects differently. They seemingly encapsulate in material form a certain lived experience of colonialism, allowing validation that the concepts of hybridity we argue were real and tangible in the past. In this paper, I turn a critical mirror on collections of colonial material from eastern North America at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University to discuss not only how hybrid artifacts from the colonial world were documented, cataloged, and preserved, but also to interrogate the processes of longing and fetishization that impact the collection and interpretations of these objects.

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Section: Contemporary Longingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Contemporary Longingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeing hybridity in the anthropology museum: Practices of longing and fetishization

Loren

2015

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“A Sharp White Background”: Enslavement and Privilege at Eighteenth-Century Harvard College

Hodge

2021

Hist Arch

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Smoke and Spirit: Exploring Bodily and Sensual Concerns at Early Harvard College

Loren

2022

Hist Arch

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“A Small Brick Pile for the Indians”: The 1655 Harvard Indian College as Setting

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Seeing hybridity in the anthropology museum: Practices of longing and fetishization

Seeing hybridity in the anthropology museum: Practices of longing and fetishization

“A Sharp White Background”: Enslavement and Privilege at Eighteenth-Century Harvard College

Smoke and Spirit: Exploring Bodily and Sensual Concerns at Early Harvard College

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