CUNY Academic Commons | nolcie pierre | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/nolcie/activity/ Activity feed for nolcie pierre. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 2521f3002b1a8cc28c2ac30498a635af nolcie pierre replied to the topic Week 10: Weeksville Field trip in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80375 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 23:46:57 -0400 Prior to this class, I had no knowledge of the Weeksville Heritage Center or of the great community that was Weeksville. I along with several other students from England got a chance to watch an informative video on the origins and community understandings of Weeksville. Through the video and small discussions I learned that Weeksville was founded…[Read more]

]]> 4447eff07b7a197865cd7f0459bcafcd nolcie pierre replied to the topic Week 10: Queering America in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80232 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 22:05:17 -0400 In “Bodyscapes, Biology, and Heteronormativity”  by Pamela L. Geller, she argues that “ through the use of a biomedical bodyscape, many investigators of ancient bodies unwittingly naturalize cultural values that are in fact modern constructs”. Bodyscape is a term she uses to describe different bodies as they move through space to the micro la…[Read more]

]]> b23f8bcce8d5f0d3bd3734b7f54f3273 nolcie pierre 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=80074 Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:24:53 -0400 These three articles discuss how prevalent pieces of material culture can provide information about the socio-economic world of its participants in the 19 century.  Chinese Masculinity and Material Culture by Bryan Williams depicts the livelihood (or masculinity) of these Chinese men based on archaeological findings. In this piece he asses the in…[Read more]

]]> 7107096e57856c8cf554734e01d497e2 nolcie pierre 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=79033 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:12:22 -0400  

Kathryn M. Kuranda highlights the thoughtful and responsible professional practice in cultural resource management (CRM) in her chapter “Studying and Evaluating the Built Environment”. “Cultural resource management operates under international cultural heritage conventions, government policies, laws, ordinances, regulations, procedures, stand…[Read more]

]]> 0ba100d485e7fe4ecbd9af0b472e01fe nolcie pierre 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=78627 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:02:39 -0400 Leone describes Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon as a model prison famous for its architecture. The panopticon is modeled as a multisided, domed building in which all inmates are visible from a central point inside the prison (and or rehabilitation center). The most important aspect of this model is the idea that these inmates will never know at what…[Read more]

]]> 46da362fc58c7397d430260a13222854 nolcie pierre 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=77825 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:49:56 -0400 “Native American Historical archeology and the trope of authenticity” by Craig Cipolla is an interesting piece that talks about the effects of misusing historical archaeological data to drive colonial narratives and how Historical Archaeological data can also work to reverse those effects. Craig’s research highlights the Brothertown Indians of Wi…[Read more]

]]> 5c47b5784ad2a7fc8b7a957acc5b2da8 nolcie pierre joined the group ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/587202/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 23:09:25 -0400 5813897e09ca406032821f8c28fc20b1 nolcie pierre became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/587199/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 23:03:51 -0400