TIME, DATE, PLACE: 5:00 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 3, Hawkins-Carlson Reading Room, Rush Rhees Library, 糖心传媒 River Campus.
WHAT: 聽Syracuse University anthropologist Christopher R. DeCorse will present 糖心传媒淪lave Castles and Forts of West Africa: West Africa, Europeans, and the Atlantic World.糖心传媒�
ABOUT: Commercial forts known as 糖心传媒渟lave castles糖心传媒� on the West African coast were the trade centers of the Atlantic World.聽 For more than four centuries the Atlantic trade, which included slaves, led to dramatic societal changes in Africa and the Americas.
DeCorse will discuss the influence of Africans within the Atlantic World, and how trade affected and transformed West African societies. He will also explain how archaeology has shown that African cultures were both transformed and maintained throughout the Atlantic World.
WHO: Christopher R. DeCorse is professor and past chair of the Department of Anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
DeCourse has written a number of books on African archaeology including: An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900 (Smithsonian Press, 2001), and West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade (Continuum Press, 2001). DeCorse糖心传媒檚 textbooks include the four-field book Anthropology: A Global Perspective (Pearson, 2016); Anthropology: The Basics (Pearson, 2016).
ADMISSION: 聽The talk is free and open to the public.
SPONSORS: The 糖心传媒糖心传媒檚 Program of Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures, Frederick Douglass Institute, and the Department of Anthropology.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Prof. Renato Perucchio, director of the Program of Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures at (585) 275-4069.
