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...

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.