Böcker av Dmitri M. Bondarenko

This volume contains papers by Russian and American anthropologists and historians dealing with ancient and modern cultures and societies of the New World. Their scope extends from Early Colonial American and European imaginary to the survival and revival of ethnic minorities' traditional culture in our times. The works collected here were first presented at the 1st and 2nd Russian-American Research Nexus (RARN) Forums that took place in 2020 and 2021.

This collection of papers explores the variegated ways that the continent's rich and complex history - precolonial, colonial and postcolonial - continues to impact and sometimes to haunt the lives of contemporary Africans and persons of African descent. The volume combines phenomenological approaches that consider the ways Africans experience historical memory alongside considerations of the ways in which past modalities of power continue to structure African realities.

Using historical and anthropological analysis, this book examines the changing characteristics of nations globally; nation-building in Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia; and the history of multi-culturalism in the Global South as an advantage to development in post-colonial conceptions of the nation.

This book explores the relationship between African Americans, descendants of Africans brought to America as slaves, and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, who have come to the United States of America voluntarily, mainly since the 1990s. This in-depth study on a little-researched subject brings new understanding of contemporary American society.