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Informationen zum Autor edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran, Toyin Falola Klappentext Through interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, the dynamics of a comparative transatlantic archaeology is developed. Zusammenfassung Dealing with the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic, this title highlights the importance of archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world's Africans. It presents a picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface Part 1. Introduction 1. Pathways in the Archaeology of Transatlantic AfricaAkinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola Part 2. Atlantic Africa 2. Entangled Lives: The Archaeology of Daily Life in the Gold Coast Hinterlands, AD 1400-1900Ann Brower Stahl 3. Living in the Shadow of the Atlantic World: History and Material Life in a Yoruba-Edo Hinterland, ca. 1600-1750Akinwumi Ogundiran 4. Dahomey and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeology and Political Order on the Bight of BeninJ. Cameron Monroe 5. Enslavement in the Middle Senegal Valley: Historical and Archaeological PerspectivesAlioune Déme and Ndeye Sokhna Guèye 6. The Landscape and Society of Northern Yorubaland during the Era of the Atlantic Slave TradeAribidesi Usman 7. The Collapse of Coastal City-States of East AfricaChapurukha M. Kusimba 8. Ghana's "Slave Castles," Tourism, and the Social Memory of the Atlantic Slave TradeBrempong Osei-Tutu Part 3. African Diaspora 9. BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Representation in the AmericasChristopher C. Fennell 10. "In This Here Place": Interpreting Enslaved HomeplacesWhitney L. Battle-Baptiste 11. Bringing the Out Kitchen In? The Experiential Landscapes of Black and White New EnglandAlexandra A. Chan 12. African Metallurgy in the Atlantic WorldCandice L. Goucher 13. Between Urban and Rural: Organization and Distribution of Local Pottery in Eighteenth-Century JamaicaMark W. Hauser 14. Allies, Adversaries, and Kin in the African Seminole Communities of Florida: Archaeology at PilaklikahaTerrance Weik 15. Scars of Brutality: Archaeology of the Maroons in the CaribbeanE. Kofi Agorsah 16. The Archaeological Study of the African Diaspora in BrazilPedro P. Funari 17. The Vanishing People: Archaeology of the African Population in Buenos AiresDaniel Schávelzon 18. Maritime Archaeology and the African DiasporaFred L. McGhee 19. Archaeology of the African Meeting House on NantucketMary C. Beaudry and Ellen P. Berkland 20. Practicing African American Archaeology in the Atlantic WorldAnna S. Agbe-Davies References List of Contributors Index ...
