Greetings!
The March 2006 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In March's newsletter, we feature articles and essays by Carol McDavid,
Kelley Deetz, and Matthew Reeves, a compiled list of 2006 fieldschools
addressing African diaspora subjects, news reports, announcements, and
book reviews. A table of contents is set out below.
Please contact me if you have essays, analysis papers, book reviews,
project reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to
contribute to the African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter.
Cheers,
Chris
March 2006 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
The Power of a Name -- Freedmen's Town, Houston, by Carol McDavid
Gender and Resistance at North Bend Plantation, by Kelley Deetz
Montpelier Archaeology Progress Report, 2004-2005, by Matthew Reeves
** News and Announcements **
2006 Fieldschools Addressing African Diaspora Subjects, by Christopher
Fennell
New Book: "Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital"
New Book: "Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas"
New Book: "Diasporic Africa: A Reader"
Final Report: New York's African Burial Ground
Students Researching into Techiman Ancient Remains, by GNA News Service
New Law to Protect Morocco Antiquities, by Morocco Times
African Burial Ground in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by Emily Aronson
Evidence of Earliest African Slaves in the New World, by Terry Devitt
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
"Voices from Within the Veil" Conference
SEA and OIEAHC Joint Conference
"International Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade"
"Material Reflections of Georgia's African-American Past"
"Slavery, Enlightenment, and Revolution in Brazil and Spanish America"
"Race and Pedagogy" Conference
"Transformations: The Atlantic World in the Late Seventeenth Century"
Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Gilder Lehrman Center
** Book Reviews **
Editor's Note on Book Reviews
Review of "A Colony of Citizens"
Review of "Writing African History"
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Christopher C. Fennell
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148, 607 S. Mathews Ave.
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
phone: (217) 244-7309 fax: (217) 244-3490
http://www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/cfennell
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