Greetings!
The June 2007 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In June's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Leland Ferguson,
J. W. Joseph, Natalie Adams, Neil Norman, Patrice Jeppson, Alaba Simpson,
and Mary Bullard; a compiled list of graduate programs in African diaspora
archaeology; news reports and announcements; and book reviews by Anya
Zilberstein, Jacqueline Pitts, and David Morris. 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.
This Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and
December. We serve an expanding readership of over 4,000 per Newsletter
issue.
Cheers,
Chris
June 2007 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
Early African-American Pottery in South Carolina: A Complicated Plainware,
by Leland Ferguson
One More Look Into the Water -- Colonoware in South Carolina Rivers and
Charleston's Market Economy, by J. W. Joseph
The "Cymbee" Water Spirits of St. John's Berkeley, by Natalie P. Adams
A Preliminary Report on Survey, Ethnohistory, and Excavation in the Savi
Townscape and Hinterland, by Neil L. Norman
The Archaeology of Freedom and Slavery at the President's House,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Patrice L. Jeppson
The Politics of Culture and Diaspora Settlement in Lagos: Ethnographic
Presentation of the African Brazilian Fanti/Caretta Carnival, by Alaba
Simpson
Ned Simmons, American Slave: The Role of Imagination in Narrative History,
by Mary R. Bullard
** News and Announcements **
Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology, by Christopher Fennell
Nate Harrison Archaeology Project
New International Slavery Museum
Expanded Mission for School of American Research
New Books: Archaeology and Culture History in the Central Niger Delta; A
Social History of Afro-Curaçaoans, 1863-1917; and African Culture and
Civilization
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
International Conference on the Benin/Edo Diaspora
Atlantic Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1868
The History of Racism, Slavery and their Aftermath
** Book Reviews **
Editor's Note
Review of "Inhuman Bondage," by Anya Zilberstein
Review of "Plantation without Pillars," by Jacqueline Pitts
Review of "African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction," by David Morris
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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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