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SUMMARY:Sociality of Merchant Capital and Archaeology of Early Modernity i
 n Atlantic Africa - Akin Ogundiran (UNC Charlotte)
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CONTACT:Lydia Clough
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic Africa was an integral part of the object-centered wo
 rld of early modernity. It was a world powered by merchant capital\, which
  financed slavery\, genocide\, and various colonial projects during the se
 venteenth through early nineteenth centuries. Yet\, merchant capital was a
 lso integrated into everyday lives. Generations of people around the world
  were socialized into its networks of symbols. This presentation draws fro
 m archaeological contexts and eye-witness accounts to share (1) what merch
 ant capital reveals about the logics of early African modernity\; (2) how 
 global objects were domesticated and re-composed into new symbols and sign
 s\; and (3) the agentive roles of merchant capital in creating new ideas\,
  imagination\, and consciousness about self\, community\, and the world. T
 he talk will demonstrate what materiality contributes to a more inclusive 
 intellectual and cultural history of early modernity. \n\nZoom registratio
 n link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlcuqppj0rGtJ0Glazqf9
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LOCATION:Zoom
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