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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
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