Greetings!
The March 2009 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In March's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Charles Goode,
Danielle Cathcart, Elizabeth Clites, Kolawole Adekola, Jackline Nyiracyiza,
Edward Salo, Alaba Simpson, Mary R. Bullard, Tracy Moxhay Castle, and Bula
Sirika; news reports and announcements; a compiled list of archaeology
fieldschools in African diaspora subjects; and book reviews by Beatriz G.
Mamigonian, Neil L. Norman, James G. Gibb, Holly Norton, Jeffrey Lanier Jones,
and Sara Mandel. 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.
Cheers,
Chris
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March 2009 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
Gizzard Stones or Game Pieces?, by Charles Goode
Identity and Place Making: A Study of Colonoware at Fairfield Plantation, by
Danielle Cathcart
Quarters in Comparison: The Fairfield Quarter in a Temporal and Geographical
Context, by Elizabeth Clites
Early Urban Centres in West Africa, by Kolawole Adekola
Archeology Collections of the Uganda National Museum: Preservation and
Commemoration of Our Cultural Heritage, by Jackline Nyiracyiza
They Can Run the Boat, But Not Ride: Slavery, Segregation and Ferries, by
Edward Salo
Local Memoirs of a Slave Field Culture: The Socio-Cultural Significance
of 'Frijol,' the African-Brazilian Easter Food Heritage in Lagos, by Alaba Simpson
Frau Doktor Nancy Stafford of Georgia: From Slave to Physician, by Mary R.
Bullard and Tracy Moxhay Castle
Socio-economic Status of Handicraft Women among Macca Oromo of West
Wallaga, Southwest Ethiopia, by Bula Sirika
** News and Announcements **
2009 Fieldschools Addressing African Diaspora Subjects, by Christopher Fennell
Pioneering Historian John Hope Franklin Dies, by Associated Press
Six Finalists Vie to Design Black History Museum, by Jacqueline Trescott
Archaeological Dig Finds 3,000 Artifacts from Historically Black Latta University
in Raleigh, NC, by Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Du Bois Papers to Be Digitized
New Books, Exhibit, and Film: Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial
Reparations; Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave;
Yesteryear in Umu-Akha: History and Evolution of an Igbo Community; African
Diaspora Archaeology; Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery; Voice of the
Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba; Changing Worlds of Atlantic
Africa: Essays in Honor of Robin Law; Afro-Iranian Lives (DVD); No Roads Lead
to Buxton (Exhibit)
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
94th Annual ASALH Convention
Charting New Courses in the History of Slavery and Emancipation
Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long Eighteenth
Century
Tales of Slavery: Narratives of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Enslavement in
Africa
Freedom Trails at the Crossroads: Paths to Telling the Underground Railroad
Story through History, Teaching, and Technology
Unfree Labor and the Atlantic Empires
Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds
** Book Reviews **
Review of "Africa and the Americas Interconnections during the Slave Trade,"
by Beatriz G. Mamigonian
Review of "The Silence of Great Zimbabwe Contested Landscapes and the
Power of Heritage," by Neil L. Norman
Review of "Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach,"
by James G. Gibb
Review of "Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory," by Holly Norton
Review of "Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation
Household," by Jeffrey Lanier Jones
Review of "Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic
Manifestations of Diaspora and History," by Sara Mandel
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Christopher C. Fennell
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148
607 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
www.anthro.illinois.edu/faculty/cfennell
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