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1 online resource (291 pages) |
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One World Archaeology, 48 |
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One World Archaeology, 48
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| Contents |
List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: An African re-genesis / Jay B. Haviser and Kevin C. MacDonald; Part I: Heritage and contemporary identities; 2. Contested moments: African-Americans and the commoditization of Ghana's slave castles / Brempong Osei-Tutu; 3. Back to Africa: Issues of hosting "Roots" tourism in West Africa / Fiona J.L. Handley; 4. Cognitive issues related to interpreting the African Caribbean / Jay B. Haviser |
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5. Historiographical issues in the African Diaspora experience in the New World: Re-examining the "Slave Culture" and "Creole-Culture" theses / Joseph-Ernest Aondoffe IyoPart II: Historical and anthropological perspectives; 6. Archaeology and history in the study of African-Americans / Philip D. Morgan; 7. Putting flesh on the bones: History-Anthropology collaboration on the New York City African Burial Ground Project / Allison Blakeley; 8. All the documents are destroyed!: Documenting slavery for St. Eustatius, Netherlands, Antilles / Richard Grant Gilmore III |
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9. Identity and the mirage of ethnicity: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua's journey in the Americas / Paul E. Lovejoy10. Banya: A Suriname slave play that survived / G.M. Martinus-Guda; 11. Constructing identity through Inter-Caribbean interactions: The Curaçao-Cuban migration revisited / Rose Mary Allen; Part III: Archaeology and living communities; 12. The Cane River African Diaspora Archaeological Project: Prospectus and initial results / Kevin C. MacDonald, David W. Morgan, and Fiona J.L. Handley |
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13. East End maritime traders: The emergence of a Creole community on St. John, Danish West Indies / Douglas V. Armstrong14. Hawking your wares: Determining the scale of informal economy through the distribution of local coarse earthenware in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Mark W. Hauser; 15. African community identity at the cemetery / John P. McCarthy; 16. The archaeological study of the African Diaspora in Brazil: Some ethnic issues / Pedro Paulo A. Funari; 17. The other side of freedom: The Maroon trail in Suriname / E. Kofi Agorsah |
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18. Bantu elements in Palenque (Colombia): Anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic evidence / Armin Schwegler19. Medium vessels and the Longue Dureé: The endurance of ritual ceramics and the archaeology of the African Diaspora / Kenneth G. Kelly and Neil L. Norman; Part IV: Slavery in Africa: Other Diasporas; 20. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade and local traditions of slavery in the West African Hinterlands: The Tivland example / Caleb A. Folorunso |
| Summary |
An exploration of the archaeology of the African diaspora |
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21. Toward an archaeology of the other African Diaspora: The slave trade and dispersed Africans in the western Indian Ocean / Jonathan R. Walz and Steven A. Brandt |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
African diaspora.
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Slavery -- Africa
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African diaspora
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Civilization
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Slavery
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001534
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Africa -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001556
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
MacDonald, Kevin C
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| ISBN |
9781598747805 |
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1598747800 |
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9781598742176 |
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1598742175 |
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