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Kevin A. Yelvington (ed.), Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: anthropology in the diaspora.(Book review)
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Africa
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Bonacci, Giulia
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KEVIN A. YELVINGTON (ed.), Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: anthropology in the diaspora. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press (pb $34.95--978 19306 1846 6). Oxford: James Currey (pb 18.95 [pounds sterling]--978 08525 5978 9). 2006, 502 pp.
Afro-Atlantic Dialogues will remain a landmark in the fields of research related to the African diaspora. This book emerges from a seminar convened by Kevin A. Yelvington, 'From Africa to the Americas: new directions in Afro-American anthropology' (1999). The finished volume presents twelve articles which dialogue with one another, giving an overall sense of great coherence. In the introduction, Yelvington sets the stage for the ...