Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America

This edited volume aims at exploring a most relevant but somewhat neglected subject in archaeological studies, especially within Latin America: maroons and runaway settlements. Scholarship on runaways is well established and prolific in ethnology, anthropology and history, but it is still in its inf...

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Other Authors: Funari, Pedro Paulo A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Orser Jr., Charles E. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Archaeology,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1264-3
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Archaeology, Slavery and Maroonage: A Complex Relationship Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Charles E. Orser, Jr.
  • Chapter 2. Maroon and Leftist Praxis in Historical Archaeology Daniel O. Sayers
  • Chapter 3. Archaeology of Slavery in the Province of Neiva, Columbia María Angélica Suaza Español
  • Chapter 4. The Archaeology of Slave Branding in Cuba Lúcio Menezes Ferreira and Gabino La Rosa Corzo
  • Chapter 5. Slavery, Conflicts and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil Carlos Magno Guimarães, Camila Fernandes de Morais, and Luísa de Assis Roedel
  • Chapter 6. When All Bases Are Flat: Central Africans and Situated Practices in Eighteenth-Century Brazil Marcos André Torres de Souza
  • Chapter 7. Cultural Creativity, Rebellions, and Comparative Questions for Afro-Brazilian Archaeology Christopher C. Fennell
  • Chapter 8. Marronage and the Dialectics of Spatial Sovereignty in Colonial Jamaica Kristen R. Fellows and James A. Delle.