Greetings!
The December 2006 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In December's newsletter, we feature articles and essays by Jerome
Handler, Marsha Robinson, Madia Thomson, Daniel McNeil, Sarah Croucher,
Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Lisette Roura Alvarez, Alicia B. Valentino, and
Jillian E. Galle, an excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston, news reports,
conference announcements, calls for papers, and book reviews. A table of
contents is set out below.
Please contact me if you have essays, articles, analysis papers, book
reviews, project reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like
to contribute to the African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter.
The newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and
December, and has an expanding readership of over 2000 per issue.
Cheers,
Chris
December Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
On the Transportation of Material Goods by Enslaved Africans During the
Middle Passage: Preliminary Findings from Documentary Sources, by Jerome
S. Handler
From Microscope to the Marriage Contract of Castile's Trastamara Dynasts
Isabel and Fernando: Evidence of African Berber and Germanic Cultural
Fusion, by Marsha Robinson
Tikettin yat familia/Once upon a Family: Family Origins and Slave
Histories in Southern Morocco, by Madia Thomson
American Demands, African Treasures, Mixed Possibilities, by Daniel McNeil
Slave Routes in Western Tanzania: A Preliminary Report on Survey in Tabora
and Ujiji, by Sarah Croucher and Stephanie Wynne-Jones
From Huts to Barracons in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Plantations, by Lisette
Roura Alvarez
Dissertation Abstract: The Dynamics of Industry as Seen from Van Winkle's
Mill, Arkansas, by Alicia B. Valentino
Dissertation Abstract: Archaeological Evidence for Costly Signaling in the
18th-Century Chesapeake, by Jillian E. Galle
Seventy Years Ago in Jamaica, excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston
** News and Announcements **
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, by U.N. Secretary-General
Caribbean Grave Site Illuminates Slavery, by Mat Probasco
Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past, by Nick Tattersall
In Search of Skeletons, by Elizabeth Redden
Museum Developments in 2006
Archaeological Field School at Elmina, Ghana
Field School in Historical Archaeology at Falmouth, Jamaica
New Journal of African and Black Diaspora Studies
New Books: Cloth in West African History; Women and Religion in the
African Diaspora; Archaeology, Language, and the African Past; Crossing
Waters, Crossing Worlds
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Society for Historical Archaeology 2007 Conference
ASWAD Fourth Conference, 2007
Journal of Pan African Studies Special Issue
Revisiting the Olaudah Equiano Legacy
Caribbean Studies Association 32nd Annual Conference
Commemorating Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
** Book Reviews **
Editor's Note on Book Reviews
Review of Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora, by Ty M. Reese
Review of Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia, by Gloria Chuku
Review of Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave
Trade, by Jelmer Vos
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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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