(Re)visiting (New) Mexico’s Ancient Origins: Ancestral Native Kinship Beyond Classical Civitas
By Kendall Lovely, University of California, Santa Barbara
Coloniality is a key part of constituting classicism, as it defines civilization through its literal and conceptual border-making. I approach this border-making through the influence of the Classical Tradition in its in its simultaneous construction and perpetuation alongside the development of American archeology, where I center the interests of classically-trained early anthropologists in New Mexico and surrounding regions.
Colonization, Imperialism and the Hudson’s Bay Company: The Consequence of Classics on the Indigenous People of North America
By Caitlin Mostaway Parker, Independent Scholar
In the 18th and 19th centuries, British Imperialism was reaching its peak in the New World (Bradley; Buckner). Operating on the territories of what is now collectively known as Canada, the Hudson’s Bay Company was incorporated by English Royal Charter in 1670 ("HBC Royal Charter"), and quickly came to dominate much of the English-controlled Hudson’s Bay drainage basin.
“Good-Bye Aristotle”: A Critical Indigenous Perspective on Aristotle, Colonialism, and Race
By Ashley Lance, University of Cambridge
The Spanish missionary Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote his “Defense of the Indians” in response to the theologian and philosopher Juan Ginés De Sepúlveda’s “On the Just Causes of War against the Indians”. Both Las Casas and Sepúlveda point to Aristotle, among other ancient and Christian scholars, as a source of justification for their arguments.
Punic Silence: Recovering Rural Voices in Augustine’s Africa
By Cassandra M.M. Casias, Duke University
Punic-speaking Africans appear occasionally in the writings of Augustine of Hippo. As a father, he recounts a conversation between himself and his adolescent son, Adeodatus, over the definition of a Punic word. As a bishop, Augustine had to find ways of preaching to the rural communities around the metropolitan center of Hippo who did not speak Latin. Both Adeodatus and the rural Punic speakers of Africa survive in the record under the shadow of the prolific writer and famous theologian.