Author: Leland Ferguson File Type: pdf Provides a fascinating and nuanced study of the transformations in religious and social ideals among Moravians as they worked to implement their aspirations in the harsh realities of a North Carolina landscape shaped by racism. Ferguson reveals the intersecting dynamics of religious aspirations, sectarian prejudices, conflicting designs across cultural landscapes, paradoxical divergences of religious ideals and social realities, and the life stories of African Americans working to navigate such contested terrain.Christopher C. Fennell, author of Crossroads and Cosmologies A fascinating examination of the tension of race relations in the antebellum South. Gods Fields unfolds like a murder mystery and is hard to put down.Christopher E. Hendricks, author of The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia The Moravian community of Salem, North Carolina, was founded in 1766, and the townthe hub of nearly 100,000 piedmont acres purchased thirteen years before and named Wachoviaquickly became the focal point for the churchs colonial presence in the South. While the brethren preached the unity of all humans under God, a careful analysis of the birth and growth of their Salem settlement reveals that the group gradually embraced the institutions of slavery and racial segregation in opposition to their religious beliefs. Although Salems still-active community includes one of the oldest African American congregations in the nation, the evidence contained in Gods Fields reveals that during much of the twentieth century, the churchs segregationist past was intentionally concealed. Leland Fergusons work reconstructing this secret history through years of archaeological fieldwork was part of a historical preservation program that helped convince the Moravian Church in North America to formally apologize in 2006 for its participation in slavery and clear a way for racial reconciliation. Leland Ferguson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Uncommon Ground Archaeology and Colonial African America, 16501800, a recipient of the Southern Anthropological Societys James Mooney Award. A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel **

Author: Vanessa Corby File Type: pdf Here is an important new examination of the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant figures in twentieth century art. Using exciting new feminist approaches, and beginning with a close focus on two key works, Corby reveals the way Hesse has been constructed as a woman artist and reveals the absent legacy of the Holocaust and refugee life in her art practice. Considering creativity and the feminine, trauma and historiography, and providing a fascinating reassessment of Hesses relationship with her mother and its impact on her work, the book also confirms the importance of drawing practice within Eva Hesses wider oeuvre. SERIES ANNOUNCEMENTNew Encounters Arts, Cultures, ConceptsSeries Editor Griselda PollockThis timely new series, with eminent art historian and cultural analyst Griselda Pollock as series editor, brings together major international commentators and also introduces a new generation of emerging scholars. Resisting both the rejection of theory and the current displacement of art history in favour of visual culture, New Encounters instead rejuvenate both approaches. Marked out by its critical engagement with and close informed readings of images, texts and cultural events, this series employs new feminist, postcolonial and queer perspectives. New Encounters also showcases exciting new volumes which revisit key figures in twentieth century art through highly original feminist approaches.**