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Geodæsia: Land and Memory

Wetovick, Kalie Nicole
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303780078

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2011, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
This paper explores issues of land in terms of history and memory while focusing on a specific case study of land in southwestern Ohio in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It not only illuminates how land acquires meaning, but also questions the role of the archive in the research process and the construction of narrative. The paper details the methodology and constraints of putting forth an historical argument in an exhibit format, and provides specific examples of that exhibit. From the perspectives of white settlers, local Native Americans, and people associated with Miami University, the exhibit argues that memory of land is constructed of both distinct and overlapping conceptions of land specific to residents of the land. Images of land and its ownership structure the use of land, which then shapes memory. These memories of land underlie our own modern institutions and conceptions of land.
Andrew R. L. Cayton, PhD (Advisor)
Elena Jackson Albarrán, PhD (Committee Member)
Helen Sheumaker, PhD (Committee Member)
70 p.
American History; Geography; History; Museum Studies; Native Americans
land; memory; image; use; Symmes Purchase; Miami University; Miami Tribe; landscape; meaning; archive; exhibit; Native Americans

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  • Wetovick, K. N. (2011). Geodæsia: Land and Memory [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303780078

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wetovick, Kalie. Geodæsia: Land and Memory. 2011. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303780078.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wetovick, Kalie. "Geodæsia: Land and Memory." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303780078

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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