Greetings!
The March 2007 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In March's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Jerome S.
Handler, Christopher Espenshade, Leland Ferguson, Amy C. Kowal, Aline
Vieira de Carvalho, Christopher I. Sperling, James L. Sweeney, Giovanni
Savino, Alaba Simpson, and Traore Moussa; a compiled list of
archaeological fieldschools focusing on African diaspora subjects; news
reports and announcements; and book reviews by Kevin C. MacDonald, Carol
McDavid, Madia Thomson, and Sylvia I. Bergh. 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 a readership of over 2,000 per Newsletter issue.
Cheers,
Chris
March 2007 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
From Cambay in India to Barbados in the Caribbean: Two Unique Beads from a
Plantation Slave Cemetery, by Jerome S. Handler
A River of Doubt: Marked Colonoware, Underwater Sampling, and Questions of
Inference, by Christopher Espenshade
Comments on Espenshade's "A River of Doubt: Marked Colonoware, Underwater
Sampling, and Questions of Inference," by Leland Ferguson
Autonomous, but Shackled: A Community Model of Slave Life and its
Archaeological Testing, by Amy C. Kowal
Archeological Perspectives of Palmares: A Maroon Settlement in 17th
century Brazil, by Aline Vieira de Carvalho
Agriculture and Slavery in Prince George's County, Maryland, by
Christopher I. Sperling
Caribs, Maroons, Jacobins, Brigands, and Sugar Barons: The Last Stand of
the Black Caribs on St. Vincent, by James L. Sweeney
"Misterios:" The Making of a Documentary as a Way of Exploring One's Own
Faith, by Giovanni Savino
Oral Tradition and the Slave Trade in Nigeria, Ghana, and Benin, by Alaba
Simpson
Teaching Martin R. Delany's "Blake or the Huts of America," by Traore
Moussa
** News and Announcements **
2007 Fieldschools Addressing African Diaspora Subjects, by Christopher
Fennell
Updates to Atlantic Slave Trade Website, by Jerome S. Handler
Teaching with Historic Places: Lesson Plan on New Philadelphia, Illinois
Virginia Apologizes for Role in Slavery, by Larry O'Dell
U.S. House Passes Bill to Preserve Family Records of African Americans
New Exhibit: "Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa"
New Book: "A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad"
Society for Historical Archaeology's Cotter Award
Slavery and Justice Program at Brown University
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
ASWAD Fourth Conference, 2007
From Slavery to Freedom: Africans in the Americas, 2007
Atlantic Emancipations, 2008
Seventh International Crossroads Conference, 2008
** Book Reviews **
Editor's Note
Review of "Archaeology, Language, and the African Past," by Kevin C.
MacDonald
Review of "Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories about the Past," by Carol
McDavid
Review of "Cloth in West African History," by Madia Thomson
Review of "Frantz Fanon: A Portrait," by Sylvia I. Bergh
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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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