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Crossroads and cosmologies : diasporas and ethnogenesis in the New World

by Christopher C. Fennell, Robert Farris Thompson, Paul A. Shackel

This study explores how enslaved Africans and European immigrants preserved and adapted their identities in the Americas. Drawing on archaeology, history, and anthropology, it analyses material culture and religious rituals over four centuries.

Accession 19505 ISBN 9780813034966 Publisher University Press of Florida
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