John M Chenoweth
Biographic Data
| ID | 190741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Chenoweth |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Chenoweth |
| SIGNATURE | CHENOWETH J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan–Dearborn |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2297-5717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Landscapes and Seascapes of Early Colonialism in the Plymouth Colony
Introduction
Welcome to another issue of Lessons from Experience. This year’s articles take us on a cross country tour where we explore the endless possibilities of economic development within and for Indigenous communities and people. To begin, on a national scale, Transforming Indigenous Procurement: Empowerment, Challenges, and the Road Ahead, provides us with an in-depth view of the world of procurement in Canada and the realities for Indigenous communiti…
Religion, Status, and Trade on the Seventeenth-Century Doane Site, Cape Cod, MA
In the Beginning Was the Word”
Spatial Analysis of Religious Community
Modeling Colonial Paternalism
GIS modeling and analysis of multispectral satellite imagery are applied to a former plantation in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), which, in 1831, became a settlement of free Africans who lived within slavery-based British colonialism. A map of the settlement represents the paternalist British government ideal for this community-an 'experiment' for controlling a postemancipation peasantry-and the techniques discussed here allow clearer understa…
Marine Shell and Small-Island Slavery in the Caribbean
Reconstructing a Changing Religious Landscape
Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery
How do both a religious community and a religion change when their members must face contradictions between their ideals and the society in which they live? This question is answered here by using archaeological and archival information to trace the life of a group of Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. A group of mostly poor, white planters formed this unique communi…
Natural Graffiti and Cultural Plants
This article argues that some elements of material culture can creatively cross the line between notions of “nature” and “culture” as these and related ideas are often tacitly understood by some modern people. This has implications for the biosphere, but the division of these categories is also tied up with the division of people, processes of identification, memorialization, and the way some people are defined out of the human realm altogether. …
The Archaeology of a Postemancipation Smallholder in the British Virgin Islands
In some ways, little except a legal status changed for many enslaved Africans when slavery ended in the British Colonies of the Caribbean, as land and capital were held by their former enslavers. In the British Virgin Islands, however, personal effort and a series of historical events led to the creation of many small, freehold farms held by the newly free. This chapter considers initial archaeological work at one of these, highlighting the creat…
Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean
All parts of the Caribbean were shaped by similar forces, including race-based chattel slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical and sometimes deadly natural environment. Within these commonalities, however, is also a great deal of diversity. Large sugar plantations populated by hundreds of enslaved Africans rightfully receive a great deal of attention from archaeologists, historians, and the public. The authors in this volume, however, use in…
Color in historical ceramic typologies
Practicing and Preaching Quakerism
A meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") formed in the British Virgin Islands in the 1740s offers a window onto broader practices of religion making. Equality, simplicity, and peace form a basis for Quaker thought, but in the BVI these ideals intersected with the realities of Caribbean life and the central fact that members also held enslaved Africans. What members did to create Quakerism varied for this group, yet it was nonethe…
Social identity, material culture, and the archaeology of religion
This article considers how social identity groups come to be associated with certain material signs or traits. It is argued that this is a complex and continuing process, but not one which is untraceable or random, and so we can still use these signs to aid our understanding of social identity. Using the archaeological study of religious identity seen through Quakerism as a starting point, this article considers the nature of social identity and …
Dynamically Adapting to Understand Humanity
Not asking the law question
In Asking the Law Question Margaret Davies launches border raids on the "isolationist mentality" of the law which mystifies its own specificity and insists on the law's separateness from other forms of knowledge and practices. Davies' fascination with parameters, borders, boundaries and constraints manifests itself textually as a constant play of multiple insides and outsides. She confronts the law's exclusiveness by challenging its systematic ex…
Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean
All parts of the Caribbean were shaped by similar forces, including race-based chattel slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical and sometimes deadly natural environment. Within these commonalities, however, is also a great deal of diversity. Large sugar plantations populated by hundreds of enslaved Africans rightfully receive a great deal of attention from archaeologists, historians, and the public. The authors in this volume, however, use in…
Practicing and Preaching Quakerism
A meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") formed in the British Virgin Islands in the 1740s offers a window onto broader practices of religion making. Equality, simplicity, and peace form a basis for Quaker thought, but in the BVI these ideals intersected with the realities of Caribbean life and the central fact that members also held enslaved Africans. What members did to create Quakerism varied for this group, yet it was nonethe…
Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery
How do both a religious community and a religion change when their members must face contradictions between their ideals and the society in which they live? This question is answered here by using archaeological and archival information to trace the life of a group of Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. A group of mostly poor, white planters formed this unique communi…
Social identity, material culture, and the archaeology of religion
This article considers how social identity groups come to be associated with certain material signs or traits. It is argued that this is a complex and continuing process, but not one which is untraceable or random, and so we can still use these signs to aid our understanding of social identity. Using the archaeological study of religious identity seen through Quakerism as a starting point, this article considers the nature of social identity and …
Natural Graffiti and Cultural Plants
This article argues that some elements of material culture can creatively cross the line between notions of “nature” and “culture” as these and related ideas are often tacitly understood by some modern people. This has implications for the biosphere, but the division of these categories is also tied up with the division of people, processes of identification, memorialization, and the way some people are defined out of the human realm altogether. …
Marine Shell and Small-Island Slavery in the Caribbean
Modeling Colonial Paternalism
GIS modeling and analysis of multispectral satellite imagery are applied to a former plantation in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), which, in 1831, became a settlement of free Africans who lived within slavery-based British colonialism. A map of the settlement represents the paternalist British government ideal for this community-an 'experiment' for controlling a postemancipation peasantry-and the techniques discussed here allow clearer understa…
Reconstructing a Changing Religious Landscape
Color in historical ceramic typologies
In the Beginning Was the Word”
Not asking the law question
In Asking the Law Question Margaret Davies launches border raids on the "isolationist mentality" of the law which mystifies its own specificity and insists on the law's separateness from other forms of knowledge and practices. Davies' fascination with parameters, borders, boundaries and constraints manifests itself textually as a constant play of multiple insides and outsides. She confronts the law's exclusiveness by challenging its systematic ex…
Dynamically Adapting to Understand Humanity
Social identity, material culture, and the archaeology of religion
This article considers how social identity groups come to be associated with certain material signs or traits. It is argued that this is a complex and continuing process, but not one which is untraceable or random, and so we can still use these signs to aid our understanding of social identity. Using the archaeological study of religious identity seen through Quakerism as a starting point, this article considers the nature of social identity and …
Practicing and Preaching Quakerism
A meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") formed in the British Virgin Islands in the 1740s offers a window onto broader practices of religion making. Equality, simplicity, and peace form a basis for Quaker thought, but in the BVI these ideals intersected with the realities of Caribbean life and the central fact that members also held enslaved Africans. What members did to create Quakerism varied for this group, yet it was nonethe…
Color in historical ceramic typologies
The Archaeology of a Postemancipation Smallholder in the British Virgin Islands
In some ways, little except a legal status changed for many enslaved Africans when slavery ended in the British Colonies of the Caribbean, as land and capital were held by their former enslavers. In the British Virgin Islands, however, personal effort and a series of historical events led to the creation of many small, freehold farms held by the newly free. This chapter considers initial archaeological work at one of these, highlighting the creat…
Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean
All parts of the Caribbean were shaped by similar forces, including race-based chattel slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical and sometimes deadly natural environment. Within these commonalities, however, is also a great deal of diversity. Large sugar plantations populated by hundreds of enslaved Africans rightfully receive a great deal of attention from archaeologists, historians, and the public. The authors in this volume, however, use in…
Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery
How do both a religious community and a religion change when their members must face contradictions between their ideals and the society in which they live? This question is answered here by using archaeological and archival information to trace the life of a group of Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. A group of mostly poor, white planters formed this unique communi…
Natural Graffiti and Cultural Plants
This article argues that some elements of material culture can creatively cross the line between notions of “nature” and “culture” as these and related ideas are often tacitly understood by some modern people. This has implications for the biosphere, but the division of these categories is also tied up with the division of people, processes of identification, memorialization, and the way some people are defined out of the human realm altogether. …
Marine Shell and Small-Island Slavery in the Caribbean
Reconstructing a Changing Religious Landscape
In the Beginning Was the Word”
Spatial Analysis of Religious Community
Modeling Colonial Paternalism
GIS modeling and analysis of multispectral satellite imagery are applied to a former plantation in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), which, in 1831, became a settlement of free Africans who lived within slavery-based British colonialism. A map of the settlement represents the paternalist British government ideal for this community-an 'experiment' for controlling a postemancipation peasantry-and the techniques discussed here allow clearer understa…
Introduction
Welcome to another issue of Lessons from Experience. This year’s articles take us on a cross country tour where we explore the endless possibilities of economic development within and for Indigenous communities and people. To begin, on a national scale, Transforming Indigenous Procurement: Empowerment, Challenges, and the Road Ahead, provides us with an in-depth view of the world of procurement in Canada and the realities for Indigenous communiti…
Religion, Status, and Trade on the Seventeenth-Century Doane Site, Cape Cod, MA
Landscapes and Seascapes of Early Colonialism in the Plymouth Colony
Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works)