123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Discussing History and Representation: Remembering and Reconstructing the Experiences of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 2: Reconstructing Memories and Representations of Slavery in Brazil and the Bight of Benin

Discussing History and Representation: Remembering and Reconstructing the Experiences of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 2: Reconstructing Memories and Representations of Slavery in Brazil and the Bight of Benin

AHA Session 54

Saturday, January 3, 2009: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Beekman Parlor (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Linda M. Heywood, Boston University

Papers:

Images, Artifacts, and Myths: Reconstructing the Connections between Brazil and the Bight of Benin
Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University

“Our grandparents had bought people”: The Tchamba Cult in Togo and Bénin
Alessandra Brivio, University of Milano-Biccoca

Marcelina da Silva: Reconstructing Orixá Religion in Brazil
Lisa Earl Castillo, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Comment:

Martin Klein, University of Toronto

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