Research Catalog

Title

African re-genesis : confronting social issues in the diaspora / edited by Jay B. Haviser and Kevin C. MacDonald.

Publication

Abingdon : UCL, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haviser, Jay B.
• MacDonald, Kevin C.

Description

xiii, 275 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

One world archaeology ; 23 [i.e. 48]

Uniform Title

One world archaeology ; 48.

Subjects

• African diaspora
• Africa > Civilization
• National characteristics, African
• Africans > Foreign countries > Social conditions

Note

• Correct series no. from publisher's website.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: an African re-genesis / Jay B. Haviser and Kevin C. MacDonald -- Pt 1: Heritage and contemporary identities -- Contested monuments: African-Americans and the commoditization of Ghana's slave castles / Brempong Osei-Tutu -- Back to Africa: issues of hosting "Roots" tourism in West Africa / Fiona J. L. Handley -- Cognitive issues related to interpreting the African Caribbean / Jay B. Haviser -- Historiographical issues in the African Diaspora experience in the new world: re-examining the "slave culture" and "Creole culture" theses / Joseph-Ernest Aondofe Iyo -- Pt 2: Historical and anthropological perspectives -- Archaeology and history in the study of African-Americans / Philip D. Morgan -- Putting flesh on the bones: history-anthropology collaboration on the New York City African Burial Ground Project / Allison Blakely -- All the documents are destroyed!: documenting slavery for St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles / Richard Grant Gilmore III -- Identity and the mirage of ethnicity: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua's journey in the Americas / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Banya: a Suriname slave play that survived / G. M. Martinus-Guda -- Constructing identity through inter-Caribbean interactions: the Curaçao-Cuban migration revisited / Rose Mary Allen -- Pt 3: Archaeology and living communities -- The Cane River African diaspora archaeological project: prospectus and initial results / Kevin C. MacDonald, David W. Morgan and Fiona J. L. Handley -- East End maritime traders: the emergence of a Creole community on St. John, Danish West Indies / Douglas V. Armstrong -- Hawking your wares: determining the scale of informal economy through the distribution of local coarse earthenware in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Mark W. Hauser -- African community identity at the cemetery / John P. McCarthy -- The archaeological study of the African diaspora in Brazil: some ethnic issues / Pedro Paulo A. Funari -- The other side of freedom: the maroon trail in Suriname / E. Kofi Agorsah -- Bantu elements in Palenque (Colombia): anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic evidence / Armin Schwegler -- 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 -- Pt 4: Slavery in Africa: other diasporas -- The Trans-Atlantic slave trade and local traditions of slavery in the West African Hinterlands: the Tivland example / Caleb A. Folorunso -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 08-1397

ISBN

• 9781844721399 (hbk.)
• 1844721396 (hbk.)
• 1844721388 (pbk.)
• 9781844721382 (pbk.)
• 1598742175
• 9781598742176

OCLC

62344817

Title

African re-genesis : confronting social issues in the diaspora / edited by Jay B. Haviser and Kevin C. MacDonald.

Imprint

Abingdon : UCL, 2006.

Series

One world archaeology ; 23 [i.e. 48]

One world archaeology ; 48.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Haviser, Jay B.

MacDonald, Kevin C.

Research Call Number

JFE 08-1397

Sc E 08-731