African re-genesis : confronting social issues in the diaspora /

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Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labour, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and has re-emerged; changed by contacts with new cultures and environments,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haviser, Jay B., MacDonald, Kevin C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2010.
Colección:One world archaeology.
Temas:
African diaspora.
Africans > Foreign countries > Social conditions.
National characteristics, African.
Social sciences.
History.
Africans.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
Africains.
Sciences sociales.
Histoire.
social sciences.
history (discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Africans
African diaspora
Civilization
History
National characteristics, African
Social sciences
Africa > Civilization.
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: An African re-genesis / Jay B. Haviser and Kevin C. MacDonald
  • Part I: Heritage and contemporary identities
  • Contested moments: African-Americans and the commoditization of Ghana's slave castles / Brempong Osei-Tutu
  • Back to Africa: Issues of hosting "Roots" tourism in West Africa / Fiona J.L. Handley
  • Cognitive issues related to interpreting the African Caribbean / Jay B. Haviser.
  • Historiographical issues in the African Diaspora experience in the New World: Re-examining the "Slave Culture" and "Creole-Culture" theses / Joseph-Ernest Aondoffe Iyo
  • Part Ii: Historical and anthropological perspectives
  • Archaeology and history in the study of African-Americans / Philip D. Morgan
  • Putting flesh on the bones: History-Anthropology collaboration on the New York City African Burial Ground Project / Allison Blakeley
  • All the documents are destroyed!: Documenting slavery for St. Eustatius, Netherlands, Antilles / Richard Grant Gilmore Iii.
  • Identity and the mirage of ethnicity: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua's journey in the Americas / Paul E. Lovejoy
  • Banya: A Suriname slave play that survived / G.M. Martinus-Guda
  • Constructing identity through Inter-Caribbean interactions: The Curaçao-Cuban migration revisited / Rose Mary Allen
  • Part Iii: Archaeology and living communities
  • The Cane River African Diaspora Archaeological Project: Prospectus and initial results / Kevin C. MacDonald, David W. Morgan, and Fiona J.L. Handley.
  • East End maritime traders: The emergence of a Creole community on St. John, Danish West Indies / Douglas V. Armstrong
  • Hawking your wares: Determining the scale of informal economy through the distribution of local coarse earthenware in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Mark W. Hauser
  • African community identity at the cemetery / John P. McCarthy
  • The archaeological study of the African Diaspora in Brazil: Some ethnic issues / Pedro Paulo A. Funari
  • The other side of freedom: The Maroon trail in Suriname / E. Kofi Agorsah.
  • Bantu elements in Palenque (Colombia): Anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic evidence / Armin Schwegler
  • Medium vessels and the Longue Dureé: The endurance of ritual ceramics and the archaeology of the African Diaspora / Kenneth G. Kelly and Neil L. Norman
  • Part Iv: Slavery in Africa: Other Diasporas
  • The Trans-Atlantic slave trade and local traditions of slavery in the West African Hinterlands: The Tivland example / Caleb A. Folorunso.
  • Toward an archaeology of the other African Diaspora: The slave trade and dispersed Africans in the western Indian Ocean / Jonathan R. Walz and Steven A. Brandt.

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