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Author(s): Pascale Boucicaut
Year: 2025
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This is an abstract from the "Exercising Freedoms: Historical Archaeology of the African Diaspora in Latin America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
During the summer 2018 I conducted ethnographic research with activists and community members in Panama’s movimiento afrodescendiente. That year, preparations were being made for the capital city’s quincentennial celebrations, including the fashioning of new landmarks and museums. Responding to concerns that the local and national government would overlook contributions of enslaved Africans and their descendants within the events, I distributed disposable cameras and began a three-month long collaborative “photovoice” project. In this paper I share findings from that project, as well as the contributions of my collaborators to the fields of folkloristics, heritage studies, and both historical and contemporary archaeologies.
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"100% afrodescendiente": (Counter) mapping Heritage in la Ciudad Panamá. Pascale Boucicaut. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 510389)
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Abstract Id(s): 52040