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SpringerBriefs in Archaeology Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/10186 Pedro Paulo A. Funari • Charles E. Orser Jr. Editors Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America 2123 Editors PedroPauloA.Funari CharlesE.OrserJr. Depto.Historia VanderbiltUniversity UniversidadeEstadualdeCampinasInst. Nashville FilosofiaeCiênciasHumanas Tennessee Campinas USA SãoPaulo Brazil ISSN1861-6623 ISSN2192-4910(electronic) ISBN978-1-4939-1263-6 ISBN978-1-4939-1264-3(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-1-4939-1264-3 SpringerNewYorkHeidelbergDordrechtLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2014950417 © TheAuthor(s)2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthe materialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfromthislegalreservationarebriefexcerptsinconnection withreviewsorscholarlyanalysisormaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeingenteredand executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. 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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Acknowledgments Inthefirstplace,wewouldliketothankallthecontributorsofthisbookfortheirvery valuableandinstrumentalideasandresearch.SpecialthankstoMarinaFontolanfor helpingtheeditorswiththemanuscripts. WearegratefultoTeresaKrauss,SpringerSeniorEditor,ArchaeologyandAnthro- pology,andwealsoacknowledgethebookproposalreviewersfortheirsuggestions backwhenthisbookwasonlyaproject. We would also like to thank Hana Nagdimov for assisting us in the manuscript submissionprocess. WemustalsomentiontheinstitutionalsupportfromtheUniversitiesofCampinas and Vanderbilt, the Brazilian National Science Foundation (CNPq), and the São PauloScienceFoundation(FAPESP).Theresponsibilityforthevolumeisourown andwearesolelyresponsibleforit. v Contents 1 Archaeology,Slavery,andMarronage:AComplexRelationship ..... 1 PedroPauloA.FunariandCharlesE.Orser 2 MaroonandLeftistPraxisinHistoricalArchaeology............... 5 DanielO.Sayers 3 ArchaeologyofSlaveryintheProvinceofNeiva,Colombia.......... 23 MaríaAngélicaSuazaEspañol 4 TheArcheologyofSlaveBrandinginCuba........................ 45 LúcioMenezesFerreiraandGabinoLaRosa 5 Slavery, Conflicts, andArchaeologyinEighteenth-CenturyMinas Gerais,Brazil.................................................. 61 CarlosMagnoGuimarães,CamilaFernandesdeMoraisandLuísade AssisRoedel 6 WhenAllBasesAreFlat:CentralAfricansandSituatedPractices intheEighteenth-CenturyBrazil................................. 77 MarcosAndréT.Souza 7 CulturalCreativity,Rebellions,andComparativeQuestions forAfro-BrazilianArchaeology .................................. 99 ChristopherC.Fennell 8 MarronageandtheDialecticsofSpatialSovereignty inColonialJamaica ............................................ 117 KristenR.FellowsandJamesA.Delle Index ............................................................ 133 vii Contributors MarcosAndréT.Souza DepartmentofAnthropologyandArchaeology,Universi- dadeFederaldeMinasGerais,BeloHorizonte,Brazil GabinoLaRosa UniversityofHavana,Havana,Cuba UnióndeEscritoiresyArtistasdeCuba,Havana,Cuba AcademiadelaHistoriandeCuba,Havana,Cuba JamesA.Delle CollegeofArtsandSciences,ShippensburgUniversityofPennsyl- vania,Shippensburg,PA,USA Kristen R. Fellows Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Dakota StateUniversity,Fargo,ND,USA Christopher C. Fennell Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana,IL,USA Lúcio Menezes Ferreira Department ofAnthropology andArchaeology, Federal UniversityofPelotas,RioGrandedoSul,Brazil HumanSciencesInstitute,FederalUniversityofPelotas,RioGrandedoSul,Brazil BrazilianCouncilforScientificandTechnologicalResearch,CNPq,Brasilia,Brazil Pedro Paulo A. Funari Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais—NEPAM, UniversidadeEstadualdeCampinas—Unicamp,Campinas,SP,Brazil CarlosMagnoGuimarães DepartmentofAnthropologyandArchaeology,Labo- ratóriodeArqueologiadaFaculdadedeFilosofiaeCiênciasHumanas,Universidade FederaldeMinasGerais,BeloHorizonte,Brazil Camila Fernandes de Morais Laboratório de Arqueologia da Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte,Brazil CharlesE.Orser DepartmentofAnthropology,VanderbiltUniversity, Nashville, TN,USA ix x Contributors Luísa de Assis Roedel Laboratório de Arqueologia da Faculdade de Filosofia e CiênciasHumanas,UniversidadeFederaldeMinasGerais,BeloHorizonte,Brazil DanielO.Sayers DepartmentofAnthropology,AmericanUniversity,Washington, DC,USA María Angélica Suaza Español Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH),CiudaddeMéxico,México About the Editors PedroPauloA.Funari isprofessorofhistoricalarchaeologyattheUniversityof Campinas,Brazil,formerWorldArchaeologicalCongresssecretary,authoranded- itorofseveralbooks,suchasHistoricalArchaeology,BackfromtheEdge(London, Routledge, 1999), GlobalArchaeologicalTheory(NewYork, Springer, 2005), and MemoriesfromDarkness:ArchaeologyofRepressionandResistanceinLatinAmer- ica (NewYork, Springer, 2009), with fieldwork in Brazil, England, Wales, Spain, and Italy (several in each country). Funari is a member of the editorial boards of severaljournals,notablytheInternationalJournalofHistoricalArchaeology(New York), JournalofMaterialCulture(London), PublicArchaeology (London, UCL) andisrefereeinseveralotherjournals,likeCurrentAnthropology.Funarihaspub- lishedpapersinmostprestigiousjournals,suchasHistoricalArchaeology,Current Anthropology,Archaeologies,RévueArchéologique,Antiquity,AmericanAntiquity, andAmericanJournalofArchaeology,andhaseditedarchaeologicalencyclopedias. CharlesE.OrserJr. iscurrentlyaresearchprofessoratVanderbiltUniversity.Heis ananthropologicallytrainedhistoricalarchaeologistwhoworksinpost-Columbian history, “modern-world archaeology.” His primary research interests lie in social theory,thearchaeologicalanalysisofsocialinequality,andthematerialconditions ofmodernity.Hisresearchactivitiesconcentrateonthedispossessedandoverlooked in history and to date he has investigated NativeAmerican (American Plains and Midwest),African(AmericanSouthandBrazil),andIrishmaterialconditions(Re- publicofIreland).HeisthefounderandeditorofInternationalJournalofHistorical Archaeologyandtheauthorofseveralbooksonhistoricalarchaeology. xi Chapter 1 Archaeology, Slavery, and Marronage: A Complex Relationship PedroPauloA.FunariandCharlesE.Orser Sinceitsinceptioninthenineteenthcentury,archaeologyhasbeenassociatedwith nationalistandimperialistendeavors.Itspractitioners,bothprofessionalandavoca- tional,havebeenpronetotakepartintheeulogyoftheelites.Archaeologywasborn inanenvironmentinwhichtheancientartworksofantiquitywerevaluedfortheir beautyanduniqueness.Thecollectionofrareworksofarthasbeenanaristocratic activitysincetheRenaissance.Formanyyears,archaeologistswerehappytosupply museumgalleriesandthehomesofthewealthywithbeautifulobjectsfromthepast. Inthewakeofthedevelopmentofthemodernuniversitysystem,withitsspecial- ized, enlightenedfaculty, manyofwhomhadawillingnessanddesiretoservethe newbourgeoisnation-state,archaeologywasasideeffectofphilologyandhistory. Archaeologistsservedthestateinthesearchfortheancientrootsofnewlyestablished nations,insideandoutsideofitsterritory,howeverdefined.Napoleonisperhapsthe best expression of this early phase, inventing the French heritage inside the coun- try(theGauls)andoutside(startingwiththeancientEgyptians). Champollionisa goodexampleofarchaeology’searlyassociationwithnationalism,imperialism,and philology. In deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, he supported the imperial conquestofEgyptandhelpedappropriateanancientcivilizationforFrenchimperial power. In the quest to use archaeology in the service of the state, excavators and re- searchersignoredthevastmajorityofpeoplewhohadlivedinthepast.Castingtheir eyesonlyontheelitesofsociety,theyhadnoroomforthe“lowerorders,”suchas theslavebuildersofthepyramids. P.P.A.Funari((cid:2)) NúcleodeEstudosePesquisasAmbientais—NEPAM,UniversidadeEstadualde Campinas—Unicamp,RuadosFlamboyants,155CidadeUniversitáriaZeferinoVaz, Campinas,SP13083-867,Brazil e-mail:[email protected] C.E.Orser DepartmentofAnthropology,VanderbiltUniversity,VUStationB#356050, 2301VanderbiltPlace,Nashville,TN37235,USA e-mail:[email protected] ©TheAuthor(s)2015 1 P.P.A.Funari,C.E.OrserJr.(eds.),CurrentPerspectivesontheArchaeology ofAfricanSlaveryinLatinAmerica,SpringerBriefsinArchaeology, DOI10.1007/978-1-4939-1264-3_1
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