Overview
Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slaving has occurred. The Archaeology of Slavery: A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion, edited by Lydia Wilson Marshall, investigates slavery in diverse settings and offers a broad framework for the interpretation of slaving. Essays cover the potential material representations of slavery, slave owners’ strategies of coercion and enslaved people’s methods of resisting this coercion, and the legacies of slavery as confronted by formerly enslaved people and their descendants. Among the peoples, sites, and periods examined are a late nineteenth-century Chinese laborer population in Carlin, Nevada; a castle slave habitation at San Domingo and a more elite trading center at nearby Juffure in the Gambia; two eighteenth-century plantations in Dominica; the Hueda Kingdom (Benin) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; plantations in Zanzibar; and three fugitive slave sites on Mauritius—an underground lava tunnel, a mountain, and a karst cave.
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Author: Lydia Wilson Marshall ,
Nathaniel Rivers ,
Associate Professor Clay Spinuzzi, PhD (University of Texas, Austin) ,
Carl G Herndl
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9780809333936
ISBN 10: 0809333937
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 20 April 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This intelligent, timely, diversely focused, diversely assembled, and at times playful collection of essays provides readers with ways of thinking about, and thinking through, Latour and various dimensions of his work in relation to current issues and concerns in rhetoric and composition studies. This is a collection that will be used both widely and frequently, one sure to generate a lot of discussion. --Jody Shipka, author of Toward a Composition Made Whole
This intelligent, timely, diversely focused, diversely assembled, and at times playful collection of essays provides readers with ways of thinking about, and thinking through, Latour and various dimensions of his work in relation to current issues and concerns in rhetoric and composition studies. This is a collection that will be used both widely and frequently, one sure to generate a lot of discussion. Jody Shipka, author of <i>Toward a Composition Made Whole </i>
Author Information
Lydia Wilson Marshall is an assistant professor of anthropology at DePauw University, USA. She has published essays in the Journal of African Archaeology, African Archaeological Review, and Kenya Past and Present.
