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Informationen zum Autor Jay B. Haviser is the Archaeologist for the Netherlands Antilles Government since 1982. He received his Doctorate in Archaeology from Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 1987, and his publications include African Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean. Dr. Haviser is the President of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology; Senior Regional Representative for the Caribbean and Central America of the World Archaeological Congress; and past President of the Museums Association of the Caribbean. Kevin C. MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in African Archaeology at University College London. He received his Doctorate in Archaeology from Cambridge University, U.K., in 1994. A veteran West African field researcher in both prehistoric and historic Archaeology, his publications include The Origins and Development of African Livestock (with Roger Blench). His research interests include the archaeology and history of African states and agriculture, as well as the African Diaspora in French Colonial North America. Klappentext Emphasizes the interdisciplinary temporal and geographic comparative research of Archaeology! Anthropology! History and Linguistics to allow us to form different perspectives on broader trends in the transformation and (re-) emergence of African Diaspora cultures. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the archaeology of the African diaspora. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Heritage and Contemporary Identities; Contested Monuments: African-Americans and the Commoditisation of Ghana's Slave Castles; Back-to-Africa; Cognitive Issues Related to Interpreting the African Caribbean; Historiographical Issues in the African Diaspora Experience in the New World; Part II. Historical and Anthropological Perspectives; Archaeology and History in the Study of African-Americans; History-Anthropology Collaboration on the New York City African Burial Ground Project; Documenting Slavery for St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles; Mohammah Gardo Baquaqua's Journey in the Americas; Banya: A Suriname Slave Play that Survived; Constructing Identity through Inter-Caribbean Interactions; Part III. Archaeology and Living Communities; The Cane River African Diaspora Archaeological Project; The Emergence of a Creole Community on St. John, Danish West Indies; Determining the Scale of Informal Economy through the Distribution of Local Coarse Earthenware in Eighteenth Century Jamaica; African Community Identity at the Cemetery: The Archaeological Study of the African Diaspora in Brazil; The Maroon Trail in Suriname; Archaeological, Anthropological and Linguistic Evidence for Kongo Influences; Medium Vessles and the Longue Dure: the Endurance of Ritual Ceramics and the Archaeology of the African Diaspora; Part IV: Slavery in Africa: Other diasporas; Impacts of Trans-Atlantic Slave trade on the West African Hinterlands; Toward an Archaeology of the Other African Diaspora....
