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April 14 | 7pm – 9pm AST
with Christina De León, Miguel Rodríguez López y Rocío Zambrana
Excavations in the Dance Place delves into the travel journals of Jesse Walter Fewkes, a Smithsonian archaeologist sent to Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War to collect Indigenous objects from the new U.S. “possession.” Building on this video, we will discuss the legacy of Fewkes and other foreign researchers in Puerto Rico, the colonial dynamics of collecting, and the personal and emotional implications of research when one seeks traces of one’s own history in the archive.
April 14 | 7pm – 9pm AST
with Christina De León, Miguel Rodríguez López y Rocío Zambrana
Excavations in the Dance Place delves into the travel journals of Jesse Walter Fewkes, a Smithsonian archaeologist sent to Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War to collect Indigenous objects from the new U.S. “possession.” Building on this video, we will discuss the legacy of Fewkes and other foreign researchers in Puerto Rico, the colonial dynamics of collecting, and the personal and emotional implications of research when one seeks traces of one’s own history in the archive.