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.
Akinwumi Ogundiran is Chair of the Africana Studies Department and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is author of Archaeology and History in the Ilare District, 1200-1900.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
ContentsPrefacePart 1. Introduction1. Pathways in the Archaeology of Transatlantic AfricaAkinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola Part 2. Atlantic Africa2. Entangled Lives: The Archaeology of Daily Life in the Gold Coast Hinterlands, AD 1400-1900Ann Brower Stahl3. Living in the Shadow of the Atlantic World: History and Material Life in a Yoruba-Edo Hinterland, ca. 1600-1750Akinwumi Ogundiran4. Dahomey and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeology and Political Order on the Bight of BeninJ. Cameron Monroe5. Enslavement in the Middle Senegal Valley: Historical and Archaeological PerspectivesAlioune Déme and Ndeye Sokhna Guèye6. The Landscape and Society of Northern Yorubaland during the Era of the Atlantic Slave TradeAribidesi Usman7. The Collapse of Coastal City-States of East AfricaChapurukha M. Kusimba8. Ghana's "Slave Castles," Tourism, and the Social Memory of the Atlantic Slave TradeBrempong Osei-TutuPart 3. African Diaspora9. BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Representation in the AmericasChristopher C. Fennell10. "In This Here Place": Interpreting Enslaved HomeplacesWhitney L. Battle-Baptiste11. Bringing the Out Kitchen In? The Experiential Landscapes of Black and White New EnglandAlexandra A. Chan12. African Metallurgy in the Atlantic WorldCandice L. Goucher13. Between Urban and Rural: Organization and Distribution of Local Pottery in Eighteenth-Century JamaicaMark W. Hauser14. Allies, Adversaries, and Kin in the African Seminole Communities of Florida: Archaeology at PilaklikahaTerrance Weik15. Scars of Brutality: Archaeology of the Maroons in the CaribbeanE. Kofi Agorsah16. The Archaeological Study of the African Diaspora in BrazilPedro P. Funari17. The Vanishing People: Archaeology of the African Population in Buenos AiresDaniel Schávelzon18. Maritime Archaeology and the African DiasporaFred L. McGhee19. Archaeology of the African Meeting House on NantucketMary C. Beaudry and Ellen P. Berkland20. Practicing African American Archaeology in the Atlantic WorldAnna S. Agbe-DaviesReferencesList of ContributorsIndex
