Reimagining the African-Atlantic Archive
Method, Concept, Epistemology, Ontology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James H Sweet (0009-0000-3167-855X, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-159 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853714000061 |
| OpenAlex | W2162549301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 48 |
For many scholars, the history of Africans in the Atlantic world only becomes visible at the juncture of the history of ‘the slave’. However, the sources upon which most of these studies are based, and the organization of the colonial archive more generally operate as something of a trap, inviting researchers to see how African slaves embraced or manipulated colonial institutions and ideas for their own purposes. This article focuses on methodological and conceptual meta questions that challenge how historians conduct African-Atlantic history, arguing that sources of the African past exist in the Americas, if only we are open to seeing them
Ancient history · Archaeology · Atlantic World · Colonialism · Epistemology · History of Africa · Ontology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy
Amassing Global History
Palmeiras Africanas em Solos Brasileiros
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
De La Guaira a la Nueva España
Tomás y Tomás Francisco y sus amuletos
Why Rara Burns Judas during Lent
Amplifying the Archive
Palmeiras Africanas em Solos Brasileiros
African Voices From the Congo Coast
Research Note
Slave sacrifices in the Upemba Depression? Reinterpreting Classic Kisalian graves in the light of new linguistic evidence
Slavery in Africa
The Field and the Work
Arroz, protagonismo africano e a transformação ecológica das Américas
Vashambadzi
Paths in the rainforests
The Formation of Candomblé
The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra
Recreating Africa
Central Africa During the Era of the Slave Trade, c. 1490s–1850s
Avengers of the New World
Avengers of the New World
Generations of Captivity
The Masters and the Slaves
The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade
The Kongolese Saint Anthony
People of Faith
The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World
Rebecca's Revival
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
Protection, Political Exile, and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Was there an Amerindian Atlantic? Reflections on the limits of a historiographical concept
The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Shrines of the Slave Trade
Prelude to the Atlantic Trade
Lineage Structure, Marriage and the Family Amongst the Central Bantu
The Red Atlantic
Past and Presentism
The End of Prehistory? An Africanist Comment
Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves
Diasporic Africa
O Milagre da crioulização
Mutual Misunderstandings
Histoire des populations mahi
Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the African Character of the Haitian Revolution
The Social and Economic Role of the Convent
| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |