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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, November 08, 2024 3:00 pm to 5:00
  pm \n AP246 \n Anthropology Building \n 19 Ursula Franklin Street \n\nSpe
 akers \nDr. Paulla Ebron \n\nDescription: \nAbstract: How does a region co
 me into being and what does it take to sustain it?This talk uses landscape
  to re-narrate the history of a once prosperous region located off the sou
 theastern coast of the United States. Since the early twentieth century, 
 the Georgia Sea Islands and the Lowcountry have drawn culturalists who cel
 ebrate the unique lifeways of African Americans. However, the region has 
 also inspired a significant collection of historical studies that feature 
 elite planters often celebrated as innovators and savvy entrepreneurs. In 
 contrast to approaches to history that analytically isolate histories of e
 conomic development, on the one hand, and culture, on the other hand, 
 a landscape approach brings attention to both humans and nonhumans. For so
 me time, landscape was banished in the humanities and social sciences. Ye
 t, landscape is being redefined in exciting ways. My approach considers a
 n expanded group of participants, including Native Americans, African Am
 ericans, and plantation owners, as well as crops, diseases, soil, and
  water, in the making of the region. The talk uses historical and ethnogr
 aphic research to reconsider the famous plantation economies of the U.S. S
 outheast as they transformed both people and environments.Dr. Paulla Ebron
  is currently an Associate Professor at Stanford University. She  joined t
 he department in 1992. Ebron is the author of Performing Africa, a work b
 ased on her research in The Gambia that traces the significance of West Af
 rican praise-singers in transnational encounters. A second project focuses
  on tropicality and regionalism as it ties West Africa and the U.S. Georgi
 a Sea Islands in a dialogue about landscape, memory and political uplift.
  This project is entitled, 'Making Tropical Africa in the Georgia Sea Isl
 ands.' \n\nSponsors \nUniversity of Toronto Anthropology \n19 Ursula Frank
 lin Street \n\nCategories \n Colloquium Series \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and
  FriendsCommunityFacultyFirst-Year StudentsGraduate StudentsStaffUndergrad
 uate Students
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LOCATION:19 Ursula Franklin Street
SUMMARY:Colloquium Series - The co-production of place and history: a lands
 cape approach to region making
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/events/colloquium-series-
 co-production-place-and-history-landscape-approach-region-making
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