Greetings!

The March 2007 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html

In March's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Jerome S.
Handler, Christopher Espenshade, Leland Ferguson, Amy C. Kowal, Aline
Vieira de Carvalho, Christopher I. Sperling, James L. Sweeney,
Giovanni Savino, Alaba Simpson, and Traore Moussa; a compiled list of
archaeological fieldschools focusing on African diaspora subjects;
news reports and announcements; and book reviews by Kevin C.
MacDonald, Carol McDavid, Madia Thomson, and Sylvia I. Bergh. A table
of contents is set out below.

Please contact me if you have essays, analysis papers, book reviews,
project reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to
contribute to the African Diaspora Archaeology Network and
Newsletter. This Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June,
September, and December. We serve a readership of over 2,000 per
Newsletter issue.

Cheers,
Chris


March 2007 Newsletter


** Articles, Essays, and Reports **


From Cambay in India to Barbados in the Caribbean: Two Unique Beads
from a Plantation Slave Cemetery, by Jerome S. Handler

A River of Doubt: Marked Colonoware, Underwater Sampling, and
Questions of Inference, by Christopher Espenshade

Comments on Espenshade's "A River of Doubt: Marked Colonoware,
Underwater Sampling, and Questions of Inference," by Leland Ferguson

Autonomous, but Shackled: A Community Model of Slave Life and its
Archaeological Testing, by Amy C. Kowal

Archeological Perspectives of Palmares: A Maroon Settlement in 17th
century Brazil, by Aline Vieira de Carvalho

Agriculture and Slavery in Prince George's County, Maryland, by
Christopher I. Sperling

Caribs, Maroons, Jacobins, Brigands, and Sugar Barons: The Last Stand
of the Black Caribs on St. Vincent, by James L. Sweeney

"Misterios:" The Making of a Documentary as a Way of Exploring One's
Own Faith, by Giovanni Savino

Oral Tradition and the Slave Trade in Nigeria, Ghana, and Benin, by
Alaba Simpson

Teaching Martin R. Delany's "Blake or the Huts of America," by Traore
Moussa


** News and Announcements **


2007 Fieldschools Addressing African Diaspora Subjects, by
Christopher Fennell

Updates to Atlantic Slave Trade Website, by Jerome S. Handler

Teaching with Historic Places: Lesson Plan on New Philadelphia,
Illinois

Virginia Apologizes for Role in Slavery, by Larry O'Dell

U.S. House Passes Bill to Preserve Family Records of African
Americans

New Exhibit: "Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa"

New Book: "A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad"

Society for Historical Archaeology's Cotter Award

Slavery and Justice Program at Brown University


** Conferences and Calls for Papers **


ASWAD Fourth Conference, 2007

From Slavery to Freedom: Africans in the Americas, 2007

Atlantic Emancipations, 2008

Seventh International Crossroads Conference, 2008


** Book Reviews **


Editor's Note

Review of "Archaeology, Language, and the African Past," by Kevin C.
MacDonald

Review of "Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories about the Past," by
Carol McDavid

Review of "Cloth in West African History," by Madia Thomson

Review of "Frantz Fanon: A Portrait," by Sylvia I. Bergh


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Christopher C. Fennell
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148, 607 S. Mathews Ave.
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
phone: (217) 244-7309 fax: (217) 244-3490
http://www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/cfennell