Congrats on the new book Chris!!!!

Patti

At 07:00 AM 9/16/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Please pardon a self-interested announcement; university presses ask authors
>to do whatever they can to help get the word out on new publications --
>
>New book
>
>"Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World"
>by Christopher Fennell.
>
>192 pages, Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3141-5, 2007; with a foreword by
>Robert Farris Thompson; part of the Cultural Heritage Studies Series 
>published
>by the University Press of Florida, http://www.upf.com.
>
>"Crossroads" offers a fresh perspective on ways that the earliest enslaved
>Africans preserved vital aspects of their traditions and identities in the 
>New
>World. This study also explores similar developments among European
>immigrants and the interactions of both groups with Native Americans.
>Focusing on extant artifacts left by displaced Africans, the author finds 
>that
>material culture and religious ritual contributed to a variety of modes of
>survival in mainland North America as well as in the Caribbean and Brazil. 
>Over
>time, new symbols of culture led to further changes in individual customs and
>beliefs as well as the creation of new social groups and new expressions of
>identity.
>
>Publisher's description, table of contents, reviewer comments, and 
>illustration
>are available online at:
>http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0907/news0907.html#16