123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Blood as Metaphor and Substance in the Transatlantic World

Blood as Metaphor and Substance in the Transatlantic World

AHA Session 144
Conference on Latin American History 31

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Concourse E (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Donald J. Cosentino, University of California at Los Angeles

Papers:

Blood, Race, and Nativeness: Conjuring Identities in Colonial Eastern Cuba
María Elena Díaz, University of California at Santa Cruz

The Blood of Mothers: Women, Money, and Markets in Black Atlantic Perspective
Andrew Apter, University of California at Los Angeles

Abandoned Fetishes, Spectral Terrors, and the Historical Imagination in Cuba
Kenneth Routon, Wesleyan University

Swallow the Leader: Cannibalism, Sorcery, and the Other on Hispaniola
Lauren Derby, University of California at Los Angeles

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