Browsing by Subject "Caribbean"
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(2010-06-11)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores African ideas and practices related to bodies, health, illness and death in the early modern Spanish Caribbean. African healing traditions were an essential part of the imagination of bodies, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05)Piracy in the Caribbean can be segmented into five distinct overlapping eras, which this paper will examine: the French Corsairs, 1500-1559 the Elizabethans, 1558-1603 the Dutch Sea Rovers, 1570-1648 the Buccaneers ...
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(2018-10-18)Department: Community Research and ActionIn the broad field of community research (CR), epistemic justice is often considered to be an issue at the community level. That is, the more empowering methodologies are used, the more CR should contribute to epistemic ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: Political ScienceWhat factors lead to the support of female political candidates in the Latin American and Caribbean region? I focus on one part of this broader question by examining the relationship between gender stereotypes and perceptions ...
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(Vanderbilt Universityhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/, 2009-04)Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature ...
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(2021-07-19)Department: HistoryThis dissertation analyzes the personal and social networks of free and enslaved black Africans across different geographic and social contexts from the years 1450 – 1600. Through an examination of some of the earliest ...
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(2019-06-24)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the making of a Spanish imperial legislation by which black fugitives from foreign colonies could receive asylum and freedom in Spanish territories if they converted to Catholicism. Engendered ...
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(Quaternary, 2019-03)Speleothem oxygen isotope records from the Caribbean, Central, and North America reveal climatic controls that include orbital variation, deglacial forcing related to ocean circulation and ice sheet retreat, and the influence ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: EnglishTiming to Descant examines the role of sound in tactics of colonial governance and strategies of Afro-Caribbean anticolonial resistance in the twentieth-century Anglophone Caribbean. British colonial authorities in the ...
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(2015-10-14)Department: History"In this work, I have not attempted a full description of the many hellish torments and punishments those piratical sea-rovers invent and inflict on the unfortunate Christians who may by chance unhappily fall into their ...