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56th International Congress of Americanists Salamanca, Spain, 15-20 July 2018 http://ica2018.es/ <http://ica2018.es/> Call for Papers African Diaspora Archaeology in the Americas. Contemporary Debates and Challenges Archaeological research about communities of African descent in the Americas has been dominated by two main subjects: 1) Slavery system, represented by plantations, farms and some urban contexts; 2) Maroons, materialized in Palenques, Quilombos, Mocambos, and/or Cumbes. We can find three important research contexts in the geneaology of these subjects: The United States since the 1960s, Jamaica and Cuba throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and Brazil since the 1980s. Researchers in countries such as Argentina, Colombia and Suriname have also started to research the African diaspora since the 2000s. These works reveal at least three issues: First, national debates on civil rights and ethnicity; Second, questions about the ways archaeologists have dealt with the materialities of communities of African descent; Third, power relations in which academic knowledge is produced, mainly by academics that are not of African descent. We invite contributors to explore these issues and present theoretical papers, as well as case studies. With this session we wish to delineate a broad outlook of archaeology of the African diaspora in the Americas, and point out future research perspectives. Organization: Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros Research Assistant Department of Latin American History University of Cologne, Germany [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Rui Gomes Coelho Postdoctoral Associate Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies Rutgers University, USA [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Discussants: Theresa Singleton Department of Anthropology Syracuse University, USA Cheryl White Department of History Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Suriname Deadline to submit a proposal to organizers: 1 October 2017 Postdoctoral Associate Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS) Department of Art History Rutgers University Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton St. New Brunswick, NJ 08901 P. +1-848-932-7041 -------------------------- 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 ------- Visit the CHAT website for more information and for future meeting dates: http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk --------------------------