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Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and Society of
Early Americanists Conference -- Williamsburg, Va. June 7-10

For more information see:
<http://www.wm.edu/oieahc/conferences/13thannual/panel_list.cfm>

Session: Things Creole: Material Cultures of Interaction in the Early
American South and Greater Caribbean

Processes of cultural interchange have commanded much attention among
scholars of the American South and the Greater Caribbean in the last two
decades. To date, most work has been produced by historians focusing on
language, food, dress, and social relations, often exploring the
interactions between dominant and enslaved communities. 
Some of the best work has demonstrated that cultural exchange is always
complex, usually transforming both cultures. Unfortunately, little of
that work has depended on the evidence offered by artifacts. This panel
seeks to expand the discourse by drawing together papers that explore
the material evidence of creolization, acculturation, or resistance to
these processes. The organizers are interested in papers that enlist as
evidence any aspect of the material past--from archaeological evidence
to foodways, vernacular buildings to sites of public ritual. Papers
should be drawn from the long 18th century from anywhere in the broad
geographic region defined as the Chesapeake, the Lowcountry, or the
Greater Caribbean. Projects might address issues of exchange between
enslaved and enslaving peoples, but might also examine the interchanges
between European communities (e.g. 
Germans and English in North Carolina, English and French on St. Kitts,
French and Spanish in New Orleans) or the interchanges between Europeans
and Native Americans.

Organizers: Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson

Send one-page summary and short cv to:
Maurie McInnis ([log in to unmask]) by Sept. 15


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Maurie D. McInnis
email: [log in to unmask]
434.243.8651 phone
434.924.3647 fax
Associate Professor, Art History
Director, American Studies
University of Virginia
McIntire Department of Art
Fayerweather Hall
P.O.Box 400130
Charlottesville, Va 22904-4130