2010-12-31 / Appel à contribution (revue, ouvrage) / Convocatoria / Amérique du Nord
Contributors are needed for assignments for thought-provoking entries for an encyclopedia of material slave life co-edited by Martha Katz-Hyman and Kym Rice and to be published by Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, Inc. Scheduled to appear in 2010, this two-volume encyclopedia will focus on the material culture of American slave life through the end of the Civil War and is aimed at general audiences as well as high school and college students. More than 200 alphabetically arranged entries on all areas of the material culture of enslaved African Americans will be included.
Topic areas include tools, transportation, cooking equipment, personal objects, agriculture, architecture, furnishings, religion, food and mechanisms of control. (see attached document for remaining topics)
Contributors must be able to write to specification for a general audience and adhere to deadlines; a modest honorarium is available.
Please send CV for consideration to : worldofaslave@gmail.com. Replies only to qualified candidates.
- Martha Katz-Hyman, Independent Curator ,
- Kym Rice, Director, Museum Studies Program George Washington University
Source : Liste de distribution de l'Association francaise d'études américaines
http://www.afea.fr
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