Greetings!
The September 2007 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In September's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Nigel Sadler, Jerome Handler, Neil Norman, Chris Espenshade, Matthew D. Cochran, Lisa Kraus, Mark P. Leone, Lydia Wilson, Beatrice R. Cox, Gustavo Acioli Lopes, and Patrice L. Jeppson; a compiled list of recent dissertations in African diaspora archaeology and history; news reports and announcements; and a book commentary and reviews by John McCarthy, Yvonne Brink, and Antonio Santamaria Garcia. A table of contents is set out below.
Please contact me if you have essays, analysis papers, book reviews, project reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to contribute to the African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter. This Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December. We serve an expanding readership of over 4,000 per Newsletter issue.
Cheers,
Chris
September 2007 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
The Trouvadore Project: The Legacy of a Sunken Slave Ship, by Nigel Sadler
From West Africa to Barbados: A Rare Pipe from a Plantation Slave Cemetery, by Jerome Handler and Neil Norman
Building on Joseph's Model of Market-Bound Colonoware Pottery, by Chris Espenshade
Wye House Archaeology, by Matthew D. Cochran, Lisa Kraus, and Mark P. Leone
Economic Organization and Cultural Cohesion in the Coastal Hinterland of 19th-Century Kenya: An Archaeology of Fugitive Slave Communities, by Lydia Wilson
The Archaeology of the Allensworth Hotel: Negotiating the System in Jim Crow America, by Beatrice R. Cox
Pernambuco's Slave Trade from Costa da Mina and Transatlantic Competitions in the Early Eighteenth Century, by Gustavo Acioli Lopes
Digging up the Past: An Exhibit Review, by Patrice L. Jeppson
** News and Announcements **
Recent Dissertations on Archaeology and History
MoAD's "I've Known Rivers"
New Forum on "Lowcountry" Archaeology
Aerial Thermal Study of New Philadelphia Town Site, by Christopher Fennell
Should AP Add African-American History? by Scott Jaschik
Mayor Says London Shares Blame for Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, by Associated Press
New Books: Reclaiming Heritage in West Africa; Crossroads and Cosmologies in the New World
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
UNESCO Remembrance of the Slave Trade
ASWAD Fourth Conference, 2007
Legacies of Jamaica in the Atlantic World, 2007
Alcohol in the Atlantic World, 2007
Obeah and Other Powers, 2008
Closing of the Slave Trades: Transatlantic Perspectives, 2008
** Book Reviews **
Editor's Note
Commentary on "African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora," by John P. McCarthy
Review of "Archaeology of Colonial Identity," by Yvonne Brink
Review of "Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba," by Antonio Santamaria Garcia
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