CUNY Academic Commons | Blessing Tate | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/blessingtate/activity/ Activity feed for Blessing Tate. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 ad6fa585d7aa8c47be8f7e93a798b9b3 Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 15: Counterculture and alternative Urban Experiences in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=81822 Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:13:33 -0500 The three articles analyze the role which material things played in the history and social-cultural lives of communities in the industrialization era. According to Fowles and Heupel, the world is filled with an accumulation of material things as humans feel the absence of things they need and continue to invent more (2013). Concurrently, as…[Read more]

]]> c3084583081b882bbf6f3b8daae63351 Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 14: NO READINGS DUE-Reflect on our interview with the United Order of Tents in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=81479 Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:47:55 -0500 Blessing Tate
United Order of the Tents Reflection
Week 14

United Order of the Tents
After much research, one would assume that an organization that began with the underground railroad custom of providing “tents” for those that escaped enslavement would encounter preservation issues. Preservation of assets, customs, and their mission. As a m…[Read more]

]]> d79a926b2ed3f61ffdc3da35a1b2ccf7 Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 13: Graffiti: Leaving a Mark on the Urban Landscape in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=81247 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 02:21:50 -0500 Graffiti as with ceramics are an essential source of material evidence through which archaeologists can derive information and learn cultural ideas and identities of the past and compare them to the present. Blake (1981), Burton and Ferrel (2013), and Fredrick (2009) are in agreement that the relationship between techniques, content, and form of…[Read more]

]]> 6783d71c1f54c8137912c66251e52798 Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 10: Stonewall Field trip in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=81131 Fri, 15 Nov 2019 23:18:29 -0500 My trip to the Stonewall Inn in New York was a revelation of the advances made in the fight against social injustice in this country. As a gay bar in Manhattan, its location marks the landmark uprising to the fighting for LGBTQ rights in the country. As I learned during the trip about the history of the structure, it was the first landmark…[Read more]

]]> 415d8800f0c1af77d1f52dc20f0ace49 Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 12: Rubbish! Contemporary Garbage in Archaeological Thought in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80903 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:31:50 -0500 Garbage holds essential information about people, their behaviors, culture, and the communities that they live in. Indeed, much of the artifacts that the archaeologists collect, record and evaluate in compulsive detail is what people in the past threw away as valueless—broken ceramics, dulled or broken stone tools, food-making debris, rusted m…[Read more]

]]> a92129d20b16ede30b2c4e414f4cd891 Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 11: Dystopia: Archaeologies of Urban Disaster in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80548 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 18:13:47 -0500 All the articles, Dawdy (2006), Garazhian and Yazdi (2008), and Bagwell (2009), make a case that, apart from the gradual process, urban settlements and cultures become archaeological frameworks through rapid abandonment, as reflected by natural disasters. The researchers investigate various ways in which natural disasters affect people and how…[Read more]

]]> 89af603289b26564a12cca19b8bb3aef Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 9: Constructing Hegemonic Genders in Urban America in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80547 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 18:09:58 -0500 Gender in Urban Spaces
Wall (1991), uses ceramic material data to explore and understand the factors that the middle-class women living in Greenwich Village in New York City considered in making consumer decisions in the mid-19th century. The author utilizes the stylistic analysis method—focusing on decorative styles applied to the ceramic a…[Read more]

]]> 1388966d7546fe38ad79789c37bf238a Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 10: Queering America in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80061 Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:42:56 -0400 The authors contrast in the perspectives they take to analyze the sexuality of the past using archaeology. Rubin (2000), uses various archaeological data such as site definition, settlement patterns, catchment areas, and population estimates to understand urban gay men. Rubin conducted his research solely in San Francisco and discussed topics…[Read more]

]]> 1d2a820072b494c92de82919d8e5397c Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 8-Ethnographic Methods: How to Study Urban Space in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=79835 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:50:32 -0400 The authors describe various methods for studying urban spaces and the complexity and nuances of human culture and interactivity. Gehl and Svarre (2013), discuss the more traditional ethnographic methodologies such as counting, mapping, tracing, tracking, looking for traces, photography, test walks, and keeping a diary. Weiss (1995), discusses…[Read more]

]]> 74abcd846dd8fd1ff292dc1c8d81ea78 Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week7: Ethnicity and Racialization in Urban America in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=79666 Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:18:12 -0400 Leone (2005), Mullins and Jones (2011), and Linn (2010) have employed interdisciplinary approaches of engaged anthropology to illustrate the hidden forms of racial and ethnic inequality inscribed in the American society. Leone (2005), contemplates on what happens to the “othered” cultures within capitalism. He uses the ideas from Louis Alt…[Read more]

]]> e0d407327f385fa7684662ed4820abce Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 6-Guest Lecturer Jaskiran Dhillon, The New School in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=79489 Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:22:13 -0400 On October 3, 2019, I had the pleasure and great opportunity to listen to a lecture by Scholar and Political Organizer Jaskaran Dhillon. To note her position, Ms. Dhillon’s area of research, scholarship, and teachings include, indigenous studies, youth studies, anthropology, colonial violence, and political ecology. Her current work includes…[Read more]

]]> 7c775b9eef403aefeccab27e99a7544e Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 5-CRM, Historic Preservation and Advocacy in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=79035 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:40:17 -0400 The first article to be analyzed is by Thomas King, known as “A comparison to cultural resource management.” It begins with the analysis of cultural resource management. This is the consideration of the protection and management of the multitudes of scarce elements of cultural heritage in a modern world (King) with the expansion of populations and…[Read more]

]]> bd21e40bcc449814efd31e3be1785917 Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 4:Architecture and Urban Plans as Technologies of Control in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=78525 Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:59:10 -0400 For me, this read was a bit heavy in connotations. I had to do some research outside of the text to gather a better understanding of the ideologies that were presented. Hopefully, this is a suitable reflection of what both authors are attempting to postulate.

Leone offers a thorough understanding of historical archaeology and capitalist…[Read more]

]]> d3606f873a4ff0122494ca8ef794fdf4 Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 3: Consumption, Conspicuous or Otherwise in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=78154 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:59:21 -0400 Kent and Gandia-Ojeda’s study examines whether the Puerto Ricans living in the U.S, mainly, in Lorain, Ohio, express their identity and ethnicity with residential landscaping. The study found that Puerto Ricans utilize various semi-fixed visual symbols on their residences and have adopted a pattern of maintaining their homes and yards to i…[Read more]

]]> 26f50e48b11d739f180ae5214836fe8c Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 2: Foundational Papers, Foundational Debates in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=77953 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:38:07 -0400 According to González-Ruibal and Harrison, the contemporary world (supermodernity as referred to by González-Ruibal, is characterized by many barriers that have affected archaeology as a discipline. While adopting a symmetrical method, González-Ruibal, identifies four issues that concern the modern archaeology: materiality, mediation, place and me…[Read more]

]]> 31b2df2610bf69dfb5b1c6001921088e Blessing Tate changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/589490/ Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:16:19 -0400 97fbaa74f085341d0566b1bcc36aff9b Blessing Tate replied to the topic Week 1: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Topics in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=77833 Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:48:03 -0400 Urban archaeology is one aspect that helps individuals to reflect on the past. It is right to suggest that historical archaeologists can challenge various colonial narratives. According to Cipolla, this action can be carried out in that these archaeologists can present the rich data they gathered. However, often time, this data is misappropriated…[Read more]

]]> 0f9de4c2a5605bc23b7900edd6969f7f Blessing Tate joined the group ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/586628/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:57:17 -0400 8f2ffaf26f4d3d9305bf46dd1438ab20 Blessing Tate became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/586320/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:03:58 -0400