African re-genesis : confronting social issues in the diaspora / edited by Jay B. Haviser and Kevin C. MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haviser, Jay B., editor.

MacDonald, Kevin C., editor.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

One world archaeology

One World Archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Africans--Foreign countries--Social conditions.

Africans.

National characteristics, African.

Africa--Civilization.

Africa.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge (Publisher), 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and has re-emerged; changed by contacts with new cultures and environments, but still part of the continuum of African tradition: an African Re-Genesis. This is the first volume in its field to emphasize the interdisciplinary temporal and geographic comparative research of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Linguistics to allow us to form unique perspectives on broader trends in the transformation and (re-) emergence of African Diaspora cultures. African Re-Genesis confirms that regardless of discipline, from continental Africa to Europe, the Western Hemisphere and Indian Ocean, all Diaspora research requires a relevance to modern communities and sensitivity to the interplay with contemporary cultural identities. Matters concerning race and cultural diversity, though ostensibly de-fused by the vocabulary of political correctness, remain contentious. Indeed, the topic of racial relations has become to the twenty-first century what sex was to the nineteenth century - something best not discussed in public, and better talked around than confronted directly. African Re-Genesis strikes at the nerve of urgency that the past, present and future globalization of African cultures, is a cornerstone of the entire human experience, and it thus deserves recognition as such.

Contents:

1. Introduction: An African re-genesis

2. Contested monuments: African-Americans and the commoditization of Ghana's slave castles

3. Back to Africa: Issues of hosting 'Roots' tourism in West Africa

4. Cognitive issues related to interpreting the African Caribbean

5. Historiographical issues in the African Diaspora experience in the New World: Re-examining the 'Slave Culture' and 'Creole Culture' theses

6. Archaeology and history in the study of African-Americans

7. Putting flesh on the bones: History-Anthropology collaboration on the New York City African Burial Ground Project

8. All the documents are destroyed!: Documenting slavery for St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles

9. Identity and the mirage of ethnicity: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua's journey in the Americas

10. Banya: A Suriname slave play that survived

11. Constructing identity through Inter-Caribbean interactions: The Curacao-Cuban migration revisited

12. The Cane River African Diaspora Archaeological Project: Prospectus and initial results

13. East End maritime traders: The emergence of a Creole community on St John, Danish West Indies

14. Hawking your wares: Determining the scale of informal economy through the distribution of local coarse earthenware in eighteenth-century Jamaica

15. African community identity at the cemetery

16. The archaeological study of the African Diaspora in Brazil: Some ethnic issues

17. The other side of freedom: The Maroon trail in Suriname

18. Bantu elements in Palenque (Colombia): Anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic evidence

19. Medium vessels and the Longue Duree: The endurance of ritual ceramics and the archaeology of the African Diaspora

20. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade and local traditions of slavery in the West African Hinterlands: The Tivland example

21. Toward an archaeology of the other African diaspora: The slave trade and dispersed Africans in the Western Indian Ocean.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

First published 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

OCLC:

956466542

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.