Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Funari, Pedro Paulo A. (Editor), Orser Jr., Charles E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Heritage.

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...