March 2009
Articles, Essays, and Reports
Gizzard Stones or Game Pieces?
Charles Goode
Quarters in Comparison:
The Fairfield Quarter in a Temporal and Geographical Context
Elizabeth Clites
Early Urban Centres in West Africa
Kolawole Adekola
Archeology Collections of the Uganda National Museum: Preservation and Commemoration of Our Cultural Heritage
Jackline Nyiracyiza
Frau Doktor Nancy Stafford of Georgia:
From Slave to Physician
Mary R. Bullard and Tracy Moxhay Castle
Socio-economic Status of Handicraft Women among
Macca Oromo of West Wallaga, Southwest Ethiopia
Bula Sirika (Wayessa)
News and Announcements
Six Finalists Vie to Design Black History Museum
Jacqueline Trescott
Announcements
2009 Archaeological Fieldschools
Addressing African Diaspora Subjects
Christopher Fennell
New Books
Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations
Charles P. Henry
African Diaspora Archaeology
Christopher C. Fennell
Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery
Celeste-Marie Bernier and Judie Newman
Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba
Ivor L. Miller
The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays in Honor of Robin Law
Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs
Afro-Iranian Lives
Behnaz A. Mirzai
Conferences
Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds
American Historical Association Meeting
Call for Papers
Book Reviews
Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade
Jose C. Curto, Renee Soulodre-LaFrance, and Beatriz G. Mamigonian
The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage
Joost Fontein and Neil L. Norman
Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach
Dwight W. Read and James
Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory
Charles Stewart and Holly K. Norton
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Thavolia Glymph and Jeffrey Lanier Jones
Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History
Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, David D. Trotman, and Sara Mandel