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If interested in submitting a paper for this symposium, please
send an e-mail (no later than August 7) briefly introducing
yourself, along with a brief abstract. Submissions from both
graduate students and senior scholars welcome. Papers in
Spanish or French also welcome.
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Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting
April 26-30, 2006
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Call for Papers for Proposed Symposium:
"Smuggling in the Atlantic World"
Organizers: Alexandra Hartnett and Shannon Lee Dawdy,
University of Chicago
SESSION ABSTRACT
How would a serious archaeological study of smuggling
transform our understanding of the Atlantic World and of
colonial economies in general? How do we approach the
archaeology of illicit economies? In the last 30 years,
historians and archaeologists have done much to trace the
economic outlines of the 'world system' of the Atlantic World
between the 16th and 19th centuries. What is often mentioned
in passing, in both scholarly works and the documentary
record, is how the dominant outlines of this system were
in-filled with multiple smaller circuits of trade, many of
them technically illegal according to mercantilist law and
wartime trade embargoes. While the importance of smuggling
has been readily acknowledged for one area of the Atlantic –
the Caribbean – serious scholarly attention to the topic has
been rare, due both to the difficulty of finding a paper trail
for an illicit activity, and to the mist of romance that
surrounds pirates and contrabandistas. Archaeology may
provide the best (and in many cases the only) source of
evidence for important undercurrents of the Atlantic system.
These undercurrents appear to have created significant social
networks and fomented major political movements. This
symposium aims to bring together scholars from dispersed
countries and institutions in order to: explore the
methodological and theoretical issues raised by the
archaeology of smuggling; evaluate our current state of
knowledge of smuggling in historic period; and create our own
exchange network for potential collaborations on this topic.
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Shannon Lee Dawdy
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
773-834-0829
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