Archive, Language, and the “Terrain of History”

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2024.e103762

Keywords:

Palmares, Archive, Language

Abstract

This review addresses the book Palmares & Cucaú through recent works on the content and various forms of the slavery “archive” and on historical linguistics carried out by Africanist historians.

Author Biography

Marc Hertzman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Marc Hertzman is Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Chair in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work, which focuses on the African diaspora in Brazil and Latin America, has received awards from the Brazilian Studies Association, Latin American Studies Association, the Conference on Latin American History, among others. He has published articles in diverse journals, including American Historical ReviewHispanic American Historical ReviewJournal of Latin American Studies, and Revista Mundos do Trabalho, among others. He is the author of three books. The first was translated into Portuguese as De onde vem o samba by 7Letras in 2023. In 2024, Duke University Press published his most recent book, After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi.

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Published

2024-12-03

How to Cite

HERTZMAN, Marc. Archive, Language, and the “Terrain of History”. Revista Mundos do Trabalho, Florianópolis, v. 16, p. 1–8, 2024. DOI: 10.5007/1984-9222.2024.e103762. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/103762. Acesso em: 13 mar. 2025.

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Debates around "Palmares and Cucaú" by Silvia Hunold Lara.

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