March 2007
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From Cambay in India to Barbados in the Caribbean: Two Unique Beads from a Plantation Slave Cemetery
(2007-03-01) Handler, Jerome S.
A River of Doubt: Marked Colonoware, Underwater Sampling, and Questions of Inference
(2007-03-01) Espenshade, Christopher
Comments on Espenshade's A River of Doubt: Marked Colonoware,
Underwater Sampling, and Questions of Inference
(2007-03-01) Ferguson, Leland
Autonomous, but Shackled: A Community Model of Slave Life and its Archaeological Testing
(2007-03-01) Kowal, Amy C.
Kowal's dissertation, entitled The Affinities and Disparities within: Community and Status of the African American Slave Population at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (Department of Anthropology, Florida State University) investigates how patterns of consumption reflect internal patterns of social hierarchy among the enslaved plantation community and what were the degrees of resistance and accommodation of those enslaved and their structure in relation to white plantation owners. Family, community, customs and practices, religion, and settlement patterns are the factors used to interpret the African American presence at Charles Pinckney’s Snee Farm in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina and to perform a regional comparison with similar plantations of the period. This study utilizes ethnological, archaeological, historical, and physical resources to determine status differences within this slave community. Its strength is the use of a holistic and interdisciplinary approach along with the integration of anthropological and archaeological theories of agency and consumption. To determine how enslaved Africans defined their community and daily lives utilizing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary method is necessary. Analysis of consumption patterns through archaeological evidence reveals interactions between slaves and other peoples defining the ranges and boundaries of the enslaved community and its elements of resistance. Agency and consumer theories provide an explanation of how individuals possess the ownership of choice and the ability of anthropologists to characterize populations in terms of their own community through the factors deemed most important by the members’ own standards in the face of outside pressures.
Archeological Perspectives of Palmares: A Maroon Settlement in 17th century Brazil
(2007-03-01) de Carvalho, Aline Vieira
The goal of the current paper is to analyze several interpretations made by analysts with the human sciences, especially by historical archeologist, about the Palmares Quilombo, a maroon settlement in 17th century Brazil. Presented with a multiplicity of views of this quilombo, one can conclude that there is no consensus in historical studies of this past community and culture, and, most importantly, that choosing and celebrating one of the historical accounts over others entails certain political positions.