I´m interested in the symposium.
Daniel Schavelzon
Director
Centre for Urban Archaeology
University of Buenos Aires
Argentina
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From: "Amy C. Kowal" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 10:56 AM
Subject: SHA 2007 Session Proposal
> I am proposing a session for the 2007 SHA conference in Williamsburg,
Virginia entitled "African Autonomy in the Atlantic World." This idea
coincides well with the conference theme "Old World/New World: Culture in
Transformation." I would like to enlist participants with studies that vary
geographically thus suit the conference theme. The preliminary session
abstract is:
>
> Whether enslaved or not, people of African descent faced difficulties in
attaining autonomy in historic times. Impacted by many outside pressures
African descendants managed through cultural developments and continuities
to maintain their cultural identities. Many were not independent, but their
communities thrived in the face of slavery, persecution, and prejudice.
Their power was wielded in their kinship practices, ideology, culinary
traditions, and landscape and settlement patterns. Archaeology in
conjunction with other disciplines enlightens modern researchers on the
experience of African descendants throughout the Atlantic world and the
levels of autonomy they were capable of achieving despite the pressures they
faced.
>
> If you are interested in participating or know someone who is, please
contact me at [log in to unmask] I expect the call for papers to be
sometime in June, but would like to get those interested in taking part
organized at this time. For your information, I am a Ph.D. student at
Florida State University specializing in historic archaeology, African
American studies, biological anthropology, and museum studies, and scheduled
to graduate this year.
>
> Amy Kowal
>
>
> Amy C. Kowal, RPA
> Department of Anthropology
> Florida State University
> Tallahassee, FL 32306-7772
> (850) 644-4281
> [log in to unmask]
>
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