Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora

by Ogundiran, Akinwumi

• ISBN13: 9780253221759
• ISBN10: 0253221757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-15
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

This is the first book devoted to the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic; it highlights the importance of archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world's Africans. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora presents a diverse, richly textured picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and offers the most comprehensive explanation of how African lives became entangled with the creation of the modern world. Through interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, the dynamics of a comparative transatlantic archaeology is developed.

Author Biography

Akinwumi Ogundiran is Chair of the Africana Studies Department and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is editor (with Matt D. Childs) of The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (IUP, 2005).

Table of Contents

Figures	p. vii
Tables	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction
Pathways in the Archaeology of Transatlantic Africa	p. 3
Atlantic Africa
Entangled Lives: The Archaeology of Daily Life in the Gold Coast Hinterlands, AD 1400-1900	p. 49
Living in the Shadow of the Atlantic World: History and Material Life in a Yoruba-Edo Hinterland, ca. 1600-1750	p. 77
Dahomey and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeology and Political Order on the Bight of Benin	p. 100
Enslavement in the Middle Senegal Valley: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives	p. 122
The Landscape and Society of Northern Yorubaland during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade	p. 140
The Collapse of Coastal City-States of East Africa	p. 160
Ghana's "Slave Castles," Tourism, and the Social Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade	p. 185
African Diaspora
BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Expression in the Americas	p. 199
"In This Here Place": Interpreting Enslaved Homeplaces	p. 233
Bringing the Out Kitchen In? The Experiential Landscapes of Black and White New England	p. 249
African Metallurgy in the Atlantic World	p. 277
Between Urban and Rural: Organization and Distribution of Local Pottery in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica	p. 292
Allies, Adversaries, and Kin in the African Seminole Communities of Florida: Archaeology at Pilaklikaha	p. 311
Scars of Brutality: Archaeology of the Maroons in the Caribbean	p. 332
The Archaeological Study of the African Diaspora in Brazil	p. 355
The Vanishing People: Archaeology of the African Population in Buenos Aires	p. 372
Maritime Archaeology and the African Diaspora	p. 384
Archaeology of the African Meeting House on Nantucket	p. 395
Practicing African American Archaeology in the Atlantic World	p. 413
References	p. 427
Contributors	p. 493
Index	p. 499
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