Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America

This edited volume aims at exploring a most relevant but somewhat neglected subject in archaeological studies, especially within Latin America: maroons and runaway settlements. Scholarship on runaways is well established and prolific in ethnology, anthrop

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Pedro Paulo A. Funari • Charles E. Orser Jr. Editors

Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America

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Editors Pedro Paulo A. Funari Depto. Historia Universidade Estadual de Campinas Inst. Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas São Paulo Brazil

Charles E. Orser Jr. Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee USA

ISSN 1861-6623 ISSN 2192-4910 (electronic) ISBN 978-1-4939-1263-6 ISBN 978-1-4939-1264-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-1264-3 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014950417 © The Author(s) 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Acknowledgments

In the first place, we would like to thank all the contributors of this book for their very valuable and instrumental ideas and research. Special thanks to Marina Fontolan for helping the editors with the manuscripts. We are grateful to Teresa Krauss, Springer Senior Editor, Archaeology andAnthropology, and we also acknowledge the book proposal reviewers for their suggestions back when this book was only a project. We would also like to thank Hana Nagdimov for assisting us in the manuscript submission process. We must also mention the institutional support from th