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Please pardon a self-interested announcement; university presses ask authors to do whatever they can to help get the word out on new publications -- New book "Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World" by Christopher Fennell. 192 pages, Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3141-5, 2007; with a foreword by Robert Farris Thompson; part of the Cultural Heritage Studies Series published by the University Press of Florida, http://www.upf.com. "Crossroads" offers a fresh perspective on ways that the earliest enslaved Africans preserved vital aspects of their traditions and identities in the New World. This study also explores similar developments among European immigrants and the interactions of both groups with Native Americans. Focusing on extant artifacts left by displaced Africans, the author finds that material culture and religious ritual contributed to a variety of modes of survival in mainland North America as well as in the Caribbean and Brazil. Over time, new symbols of culture led to further changes in individual customs and beliefs as well as the creation of new social groups and new expressions of identity. Publisher's description, table of contents, reviewer comments, and illustration are available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0907/news0907.html#16 -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- For CHAT meetings see: http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/events/chat.html --------------------------