Greetings!
The December 2008 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In December's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Mark P. Leone,
John Michael Vlach, Christopher N. Mathews, J. O. Aleru, K. Adekola, and
Charlotte King; news reports and announcements; and book reviews by Liza
Gijanto, Kevin M. Bartoy, Kenneth G. Kelly, Deb Rotman, and Jessica Zimmer. 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, December, and December.
Cheers,
Chris
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December 2008 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
A Unique, Early Artifact of African Worship Uncovered in Annapolis, by Mark P.
Leone
Documentary Images and Devotional Acts: Plantation Painting as Propaganda,
by John Michael Vlach
Archaeology, Obama, and the Long Civil Rights Movement, by Christopher N.
Mathews
Exploring Frontiers of Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management: Untold
Stories of the Esie Stone Figurines, by J. O. Aleru and K. Adekola
New Philadelphia Archaeology, Heritage, and National Historic Landmark
Status, by Charlotte King
** News and Announcements **
Society for Historical Archaeology's 2009 Harrington and Cotter Awards to
ADAN Members Schuyler and Fennell
Victor Turner Prize to "Travels with Tooy" by ADAN Member Richard Price
Frederick Douglass Award to Stephanie Smallwood's "Saltwater Slavery"
National Book Award for Nonfiction to Annette Gordon-Reed's "The Hemingses
of Monticello"
Launch of Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
New Internet Archive on Slavery and Abolition in the United States
Conference Papers on Slavery and the Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean and
Arab Worlds: Global Connections and Disconnections
Virginia Emigrants to Liberia Internet Archive and Database Published
New Books: Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking; Archaeology of Black
Markets; Extending the Frontiers; Grass Roots: African Origins of an American
Art; Children of Africa in the Colonies; The Reaper's Garden; Unfinished
Business; Traces of the Trade
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2009 Conference on Historical and
Underwater Archaeology
The Archaeology of the Recent African American Past, South Carolina Institute
of Archaeology and Anthropology
Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Ninety-Fourth
Annual Conference
Aspects of the Foreign Relations of the Benin Empire in History
New England Beyond Black and White
Society for Caribbean Studies (UK), Thirty-Third Annual Conference
Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1500–1700
Constructions of Race and Identity in Diasporic Communities, Sixth Annual
Herman C. Hudson Symposium
Edited Volume on Memory, Public History and Representations of the Past:
Africa and Its Diasporas
Liberating Sojourn 2: Transatlantic Abolitionists 1845-1860
** Book Reviews **
Review of "Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic
Manifestations of Diaspora and History," by Liza Gijanto
Review of "Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the
New World," by Kevin M. Bartoy
Review of "The Garden of the World: A Historical Archaeology of Sugar
Landscapes in the Eastern Caribbean," by Kenneth G. Kelly
Review of "Historical Archaeology: Why the Past Matters," by Deb Rotman
Review of "Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery
and Freedom," by Jessica Zimmer
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Christopher C. Fennell
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148
607 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/cfennell
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