Objects past, objects present: materials, resistance and memory from the Le Morne Old Cemetery, Mauritius.

Summary

This presentation centres on two distinct material assemblages, both representing resistance, but in markedly different ways and at different times. It also introduces a new regional comparative of African religious syncretism, longanis, a belief system that developed within slave communities, and offers both insightful similarities to Atlantic counterparts, as well a unique features in its own right. The article, undertaking a first such appraisal for the Indian Ocean, applies an archaeological viewpoint to African burial and African belief practice, to both ancient and modern assemblages, in order to better assess the role that materials have played in serving as proxies for African toolkits and memory.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Archaeologies of Colonialism and Everyday Life in the Indian Ocean World

Keywords

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