September 2009
Articles, Essays, and Reports
Landscapes of Cultivation: Inland Rice Fields
as Landscapes and Archaeological Sites
Andrew Agha and Charles F. Philips Jr.
A New Approach to Identifying the African Origins of Enslaved Laborers Using Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Skeletal Remains
Hannes Schroeder and Kristrina Shuler
“Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places”: Stories of African Diaspora Relocation to the South
Maggi M. Morehouse
News and Announcements
Historian Digs for Stories of Black Settlement and Its Massacre
Audra D.S. Burch
Announcements
Recent Dissertations on Archaeology and History
Christopher Fennell
New Books
African Identity in Asia: Cultural Effects of Forced Migration
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World
Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks
Nago Grandma and White Papa:
Candomble and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity
Beatriz Gois Dantas
Conferences
Call for Papers
Book Reviews
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Llewellyn Smith, Vincent Brown, and Christine Herbes-Sommers
From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century
Linda A. Newson, Susie A. Michin, and Tobias Green