Margaret Huber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Huber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Huber |
| SIGNATURE | HUBER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mary Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Video means "I See"
The essays in this collection demonstrate that visual media are a more than acceptable substitute for introducing students to ethnographic practice, either on their own or as a complement to face-to-face enquiry.
"Captain John Smith's Indian "Maskarado
A frequently overlooked bit of seventeenth-century Powhatan Indian ethnography is Capt. John Smith's enigmatic description of a women's transvestite dance that he witnessed on a visit to the Powhatan principal town, Werowocomoco, in 1608. While he took this to be an impromptu entertainment for his benefit, this paper argues that it was the conclusion of extensive harvest celebrations, and that it ushered in a new year. After Smith's description t…
Pocahontas and Rebecca
The Jamestown colonists’ accounts of their capture of Pocahontas, her reactions to life among them, and the consequences for the success of the colony differ radically from the Mattaponi Indian oral history of the same events, published in 2007. Both versions present themselves as “true” — that is, objective reporting of real events; but the fact that each inverts the other raises questions of validity and, ultimately, of historiography in genera…
Political Gastronomy
Political gastronomy” refers to “what food meant—and how food meant” in the political relations of English colonists and Algonquians of the Atlantic Seaboard in the seventeenth century (p. 13). It explores the symbolic meanings of food and feasting within each cultural sphere and how they were deployed within colonies and in intercultural confrontation. While it is gratifying to see a historian addressing a subject that is part of the bread-and-b…
"Captain John Smith's Indian "Maskarado
A frequently overlooked bit of seventeenth-century Powhatan Indian ethnography is Capt. John Smith's enigmatic description of a women's transvestite dance that he witnessed on a visit to the Powhatan principal town, Werowocomoco, in 1608. While he took this to be an impromptu entertainment for his benefit, this paper argues that it was the conclusion of extensive harvest celebrations, and that it ushered in a new year. After Smith's description t…
Pocahontas and Rebecca
The Jamestown colonists’ accounts of their capture of Pocahontas, her reactions to life among them, and the consequences for the success of the colony differ radically from the Mattaponi Indian oral history of the same events, published in 2007. Both versions present themselves as “true” — that is, objective reporting of real events; but the fact that each inverts the other raises questions of validity and, ultimately, of historiography in genera…
Political Gastronomy
Political gastronomy” refers to “what food meant—and how food meant” in the political relations of English colonists and Algonquians of the Atlantic Seaboard in the seventeenth century (p. 13). It explores the symbolic meanings of food and feasting within each cultural sphere and how they were deployed within colonies and in intercultural confrontation. While it is gratifying to see a historian addressing a subject that is part of the bread-and-b…
Video means "I See"
The essays in this collection demonstrate that visual media are a more than acceptable substitute for introducing students to ethnographic practice, either on their own or as a complement to face-to-face enquiry.
"Captain John Smith's Indian "Maskarado
A frequently overlooked bit of seventeenth-century Powhatan Indian ethnography is Capt. John Smith's enigmatic description of a women's transvestite dance that he witnessed on a visit to the Powhatan principal town, Werowocomoco, in 1608. While he took this to be an impromptu entertainment for his benefit, this paper argues that it was the conclusion of extensive harvest celebrations, and that it ushered in a new year. After Smith's description t…
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)