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CATEGORIES:Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
SUMMARY:Sociality of Merchant Capital and Archaeology of E
 arly Modernity in Atlantic Africa - Akin Ogundiran
  (UNC Charlotte)
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DESCRIPTION:Atlantic Africa was an integral part of the object
 -centered world of early modernity. It was a world
  powered by merchant capital\, which financed slav
 ery\, genocide\, and various colonial projects dur
 ing the seventeenth through early nineteenth centu
 ries. Yet\, merchant capital was also integrated i
 nto everyday lives. Generations of people around t
 he world were socialized into its networks of symb
 ols. This presentation draws from archaeological c
 ontexts and eye-witness accounts to share (1) what
  merchant capital reveals about the logics of earl
 y African modernity\; (2) how global objects were 
 domesticated and re-composed into new symbols and 
 signs\; and (3) the agentive roles of merchant cap
 ital in creating new ideas\, imagination\, and con
 sciousness about self\, community\, and the world.
  The talk will demonstrate what materiality contri
 butes to a more inclusive intellectual and cultura
 l history of early modernity. \n\nZoom registratio
 n link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register
 /tJUlcuqppj0rGtJ0Glazqf9jPySTLrJxvapu
LOCATION:Zoom
CONTACT:Lydia Clough
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