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Harriett Powers and her Eternal Cloth Bible
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-10-15)
Art and images serve as cultural memories for many diaspora groups, from early Judaic to African American communities. Religion is one of the strongest cultural beliefs subject to creolization when art attempts to preserve ...
An Analysis of the Synagogue Zodiac at Sepphoris: Its Judaization, Symbolism, and Significance
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-01-05)
The zodiac, a pagan symbol believed to have originated in 7th century BCE Babylonia, appears in the floor mosaics of numerous synagogue ruins through the Palestine region, including one found in a fifth century synagogue ...
A Brief History of Piracy in the Caribbean: 1500-1730
(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 ...
Forgotten at the Fair: Quilts at Chicago's World's Columbia Exposition
(Vanderbilt University, 2007)
At the first World's Fair with it's own women's pavillion, chaired by a woman, designed by a woman, and decorated by a woman at a time when sewing was the predominate activitiy for women, why were no quilts in the Women's ...
The Importation, Adaptation, and Creolization of Slave Leisure Forms in the Americas: 1600 to 1865
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
Leisure, the escape from the tedium of everyday existence, is found in all cultures including those in which slavery exists. At first glance the terms "slavery" and "leisure" may seem to be contradictory, mutually exclusive ...
Sllt - Seven Musings on a Great Book
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-12-17)