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Objects, Materiality, and Persistance in the Black Atlantic - Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic Matthew Francis Rarey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 225. $99.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478017158); $26.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781478019855); ebook (ISBN: 9781478024422).

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Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic Matthew Francis Rarey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. 225. $99.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478017158); $26.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781478019855); ebook (ISBN: 9781478024422).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2024

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Hermann W. von Hesse*
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West AfricaCentral AfricaAtlantic WorldAfrican Diasporamaterial cultureslaveryarchives
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The Journal of African History , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , March 2024 , pp. 140 - 143
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1 For examples of the biographical and cultural turn see Sweet, James, Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011)Google Scholar; Candido, Mariana, An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Ipsen, Pernille, Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.