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dc.contributor.advisorStewart, R. Michael (Richard Michael)
dc.contributor.advisorOrr, David Gerald, 1942-
dc.creatorBarton, Christopher Paul
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-03T15:34:13Z
dc.date.available2020-11-03T15:34:13Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.other881265369
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/2585
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation focuses on the African American community of Timbuctoo, Westampton, New Jersey. Timbuctoo was founded circa 1825 by formerly enslaved and free born African Americans. The community operated as a "station" along the Underground Railroad. At its peak Timbuctoo had over 125-150 residents and supported a general store, "colored" school, AMEZ church, cemetery and several homesteads. Today the only standing markers of the nineteenth century community are the gravestones in the cemetery. In 2007, Westampton Township acquired roughly four acres of the nearly forty arces that once comprised Timbuctoo. From 2009-2011, Christopher Barton and David Orr conducted archaeological work at the community. The focus of this dissertation was the excavation and analysis of 15,042 artifacts recovered from the Davis Site, Feature 13. The Davis Site was purchased by William Davis 1879. Davis and his wife Rebecca raised their five children in a 12x16ft home constructed on the 20x100ft property. Between the 1920s to the 1940s the foundation of the Davis home was used as a community trash midden. Specifically, this dissertation looks at the practices of yard sweeping, architecture, construction materials, home canning and the consumption of commodified foods. A practice theory of improvisation is posited as a working model to explaining the reflexive practices used by marginalized residents to contest social and economic repression. This theory of improvisation seeks to complicate narratives of poverty through underscoring the dynamic disposition of material culture and everyday life.
dc.format.extent259 pages
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTemple University. Libraries
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dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.subjectAfrican American Studies
dc.subjectAmerican Studies
dc.subjectAfrican Diaspora Studies
dc.subjectHistorical Archaeology
dc.subjectImprovisation
dc.subjectPractice Theory
dc.titleIDENTITY AND IMPROVISATION: ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF TIMBUCTOO, NEW JERSEY.
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dc.type.genreThesis/Dissertation
dc.contributor.committeememberGarrett, Paul B., 1968-
dc.contributor.committeememberMullins, Paul R., 1962-
dc.contributor.committeememberVeit, Richard F., 1968-
dc.description.departmentAnthropology
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/2567
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dc.description.degreePh.D.
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