A Manger in a Sea of Mud
Material Legacies and Loss at the Temple of the Innocent Blood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5947094 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Ryan Gray (0000-0002-7357-6145, University of New Orleans, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-121 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1551-823X • E-ISSN: 1551-8248 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/apaa.12062 |
| OpenAlex | W2126151945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Early in the 1920s, Mother Catherine Seal founded her Temple of the Innocent Blood in what is now known as the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Under her leadership, the Temple became not just a church but also the center of an auto-constructed and integrated space that explicitly defied the racist ideologies of white supremacy. Utilizing data from recent excavations at the site, this chapter explores how materiality is enmeshed in the daily place-making strategies of individuals on the fringes of urban society. By constituting a singular space, the Temple, through the person of Mother Catherine, transformed ordinary, mass-produced items, suffusing them with qualities only apparent within the totality of the social world she created. The persistence and durability of objects at the site of the Temple gave them power to transform long after Mother Catherine's death, and the traces of the Temple still resonate in the memory of the neighborhood in unforeseen ways today
Ancient history · Art · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temple · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |