Dear colleagues,
We decided to extend the deadline until October 15. Please, feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Best,
Rui
Postdoctoral Associate
Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS)
Department of Art History
Rutgers University
Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
P. +1-848-932-7041
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56th International Congress of Americanists
Salamanca, Spain, 15-20 July 2018
http://ica2018.es/ <http://ica2018.es/>
Call for Papers
African Diaspora Archaeology in the Americas.
Contemporary Debates and Challenges
Archaeological research about communities of African descent in the Americas has been dominated by two main subjects: 1) Slavery system, represented by plantations, farms and some urban contexts; 2) Maroons, materialized in Palenques, Quilombos, Mocambos, and/or Cumbes. We can find three important research contexts in the geneaology of these subjects: The United States since the 1960s, Jamaica and Cuba throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and Brazil since the 1980s. Researchers in countries such as Argentina, Colombia and Suriname have also started to research the African diaspora since the 2000s. These works reveal at least three issues: First, national debates on civil rights and ethnicity; Second, questions about the ways archaeologists have dealt with the materialities of communities of African descent; Third, power relations in which academic knowledge is produced, mainly by academics that are not of African descent. We invite contributors to explore these issues and present theoretical papers, as well as case studies. With this session we wish to delineate a broad outlook of archaeology of the African diaspora in the Americas, and point out future research perspectives.
Organization:
Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros
Research Assistant
Department of Latin American History
University of Cologne, Germany
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Rui Gomes Coelho
Postdoctoral Associate
Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies
Rutgers University, USA
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Discussants:
Theresa Singleton
Department of Anthropology
Syracuse University, USA
Cheryl White
Department of History
Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Suriname
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