Browsing by Subject "Washington-on-the-Brazos"
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item Electromagnetism, Site Formation, and Conflict Event Theory at the San Jacinto Battleground and Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas(2012-10-19) Pertermann, Dana LeeConflict Event theory has the potential to change how archaeologists investigate battlefield sites. As a theoretical paradigm, eventful archaeology allows us to give agency to social-structure changing events, going beyond collect artifacts after the battle is over. Coupled with site formation processes, this model allows us to project battle elements to re-create the historical events that occurred at conflict sites. Within this theoretical framework, we can begin to understand why the conflict unfolded in a particular manner. Two site of the Texian Revolution are particularly appropriate to this new theoretical model: the San Jacinto Battleground (SJB), the location of the last battle of the Texian Revolution, and Washington-on-the-Brazos (WOB), the location of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Merging this theoretical model with an investigation of site formation processes (understanding the matrix in which the artifacts lie) and pulse-domain electromagnetic surveying allows for a much more robust approach to Battlefield Archaeology. Pulse-induction allows for the detection of discrete artifacts in the soil, and is a much more reliable method than the more commonly used magnetometry. Analyzing characteristics of the soil surrounding the artifacts then gives us a third line of inquiry as to why artifacts are in certain locations in the archaeological record, allowing for an explanation as to their quality and quantity. La teor?a del Acontecimiento del conflicto tiene el potencial para cambiar c?mo arque?logos investigan sitios de campo de batalla. Como un paradigma te?rico, la arqueolog?a llena de acontecimientos nos permite dar agencia a la social-estructura que cambia acontecimientos, yendo m?s all? de re?ne artefactos despu?s de que la batalla est? sobre. Asociado con procesos de formaci?n de sitio, este modelo nos permite proyectar batalla elementos para recrear los acontecimientos hist?ricos que ocurrieron en sitios de conflicto. Dentro de esta armaz?n te?rica, nosotros podemos comenzar a comprender por qu? el conflicto despleg? en una manera particular. Dos sitio de la Revoluci?n de Texian es especialmente apropiado a este nuevo modelo te?rico: el San Campo de batalla de Jacinto (SJB), la ubicaci?n de la ?ltima batalla de la Revoluci?n de Texian, y de Washington en el Brazos (WOB), la ubicaci?n del firmar de la Declaraci?n de Tejas de Independencia. Unir este modelo te?rico con una investigaci?n de sit?a procesos de formaci?n (comprendiendo la matriz en la que los artefactos est?n) y el pulso-dominio inspeccionar electromagn?tico tiene en cuenta un enfoque mucho m?s robusto a la Arqueolog?a del Campo de batalla. La pulso-inducci?n tiene en cuenta el descubrimiento de artefactos distintos en la tierra, y es un m?todo mucho m?s seguro que el magnetometry m?s com?nmente utilizado. Analizar caracter?sticas de la tierra que rodea los artefactos entonces nos dan una tercera l?nea de indagaci?n en cuanto a por qu? artefactos est?n en ciertas ubicaciones en el registro arqueol?gico, teniendo en cuenta una explicaci?n en cuanto a su calidad y la cantidad.Item I give you my word : the ethics of oral history and digital video interpretation at Texas historic sites(2012-05) Cherian, Antony, 1974-; Roy, Loriene; Norkunas, Martha K.; Galloway, Patricia; Doty, Philip; Seriff, SuzanneThis dissertation examines the process of using oral history and digital video to revise interpretation and represent more inclusive histories at three rural Texas historic sites—-Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, the Lyndon Baines Johnson State Park, and Varner-Hogg Plantation—-21st century sites that, to varying degrees, have persisted to interpret a Texas master narrative that is no longer socially tolerable in its silencing of marginalized Texas voices. In particular, the dissertation focuses on complicated and rarely discussed ethical issues that surfaced during my work from 2001 to 2006 shooting, editing, and situating interpretive documentary videos at the each of the three sites. Historic sites in Texas, like others across the United States and worldwide, have been receiving increasing pressure from scholars and community groups to represent women, racial minorities, and other marginalized groups more prominently in the narratives they interpret. Oral history and digital media have played key roles in this ongoing movement. Oral history has widely been touted as a tool to democratize history, and advocates of digital video interpretation cite its affordability, relative ease of use, and its ability to “say so much in so little time.” These factors are all the more compelling for local, regional, and state-wide historic sites that are chronically under-funded, under-staffed, and that must often interpret multiple, complicated narratives with very little time or space in which to present them. However, little has been done to explore the unique and complicated ethical issues that arise from using oral history and digital video at historic sites. This dissertation takes a case study approach and uses as its intellectual framework ideas of reflective practice, part of the contemporary discourse among public history practitioners. Each case study introduces the site through a critical analysis of the images and texts produced by the site; presents the central historical silence at each site; describes the solution that oral history and digital video interpretation was expected to provide; and then uses the project’s process-generated video footage and records to examine key situations that led me to raise ethical questions about the individual projects and the overall enterprise.