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Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America

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Editors:
  1. Pedro Paulo A. Funari

    1. Depto. Historia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas Inst. Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Campinas, Brazil

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  2. Charles E. Orser Jr.

    1. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

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  • Gathers some of the most relevant maroon archaeologists working in Latin America in a single volume
  • Offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive analysis of runaway slave archaeology worldwide
  • Fosters further archaeology research on maroon settlements
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology (BRIEFSARCHAE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Archaeology, Slavery, and Marronage: A Complex Relationship

    • Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Charles E. Orser
    Pages 1-4
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  3. Maroon and Leftist Praxis in Historical Archaeology

    • Daniel O. Sayers
    Pages 5-21
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  4. Archaeology of Slavery in the Province of Neiva, Colombia

    • María Angélica Suaza Español
    Pages 23-44
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  5. The Archeology of Slave Branding in Cuba

    • Lúcio Menezes Ferreira, Gabino La Rosa
    Pages 45-59
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  6. Slavery, Conflicts, and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil

    • Carlos Magno Guimarães, Camila Fernandes de Morais, Luísa de Assis Roedel
    Pages 61-76
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  7. When All Bases Are Flat: Central Africans and Situated Practices in the Eighteenth-Century Brazil

    • Marcos André T. Souza
    Pages 77-97
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  8. Cultural Creativity, Rebellions, and Comparative Questions for Afro-Brazilian Archaeology

    • Christopher C. Fennell
    Pages 99-115
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  9. Marronage and the Dialectics of Spatial Sovereignty in Colonial Jamaica

    • Kristen R. Fellows, James A. Delle
    Pages 117-132
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  10. Back Matter

    Pages 133-135
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About this book

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 infancy in archaeology. A small body of archaeological literature on maroons exists for other regions, but no single volume discusses the subject in depth, including diverse eras and geographical areas within Latin American contexts. Thus, a central aim of the volume is to gather together some of the most active, Latin American maroon archaeologists in a single volume. This volume will thus become an important reference book on the subject and will also foster further archaeology research on maroon settlements. The introduction and comments by senior scholars provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive analysis of runaway archaeology that will help to indicate the global importance of this research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Depto. Historia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas Inst. Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Campinas, Brazil

    Pedro Paulo A. Funari

  • Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

    Charles E. Orser Jr.

About the editors

Pedro Paulo A. Funari is professor of historical archaeology at the University of Campinas, Brazil, former World Archaeological Congress secretary, author and editor of several books, such as Historical archaeology, back from the edge (London, Routledge, 1999), Global Archaeological Theory (New York, Springer, 2005), Memories from Darkness, the archaeology of repression and resistance in Latin America (New York, Springer, 2009), with fieldwork in Brazil, England, Wales, Spain and Italy (several in each country). Funari is member of the editorial boards of several journals, notably the International Journal of Historical Archaeology (New York), Journal of Material Culture (London), Public Archaeology (London, UCL) and is referee in several other journals, like Current Anthropology. Funari has published papers in most prestigious journals, such as Historical Archaeology, Current Anthropology, Archaeologies, Révue Archéologique, Antiquity, American Antiquity, American Journal of Archaeology and has edited archaeological encyclopedias.

Charles E. Orser, Jr is currently a Research Professor at Vanderbilt University. He is an anthropologically trained historical archaeologist who works in post-Columbian history, “modern-world archaeology.” His primary research interests lie in social theory, the archaeological analysis of social inequality and the material conditions of modernity. His research activities concentrate on the dispossessed and overlooked in history and to date he has investigated Native American (American Plains and Midwest) African (American South and Brazil) and Irish material conditions (Republic of Ireland). He is the founder and editor of International Journal of Historical Archaeology and the author of several books on historical archaeology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America

  • Editors: Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Charles E. Orser Jr.

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1264-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1263-6Published: 10 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1264-3Published: 10 November 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1861-6623

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-4910

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 135

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology, Cultural Heritage

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