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      Race, culture, and history: Charles Wagley and the anthropology of the African Diaspora in the Americas Translated title: Raça, cultura e história: Charles Wagley e a antropologia da diáspora africana nas Américas

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          When I came to the University of Florida in 1981, I was informed that Charles Wagley was not accepting new graduate students. After my first class with Wagley, he agreed to be my advisor and mentor and I became the last student he accepted. Though better known for his sensitive and pioneering ethnography of indigenous and peasant populations and his influential anthropological/historical overviews of Brazil and Latin America, Wagley and his students' contributions to the study of Afro-American cultures and race relations in the Americas are considerable. Among the important concepts that Wagley articulated were 'social race', 'Plantation America', and the 'amorphous and weakly organized local community without clear boundaries in space or membership'. Wagley guided my dissertation research in Haiti. In it I developed his concept by proposing 'cultural amorphousness' as a 'total cultural style' (following Kroeber) of African Diaspora cultures in the Plantation American cultural sphere: a primary organizing principle that has proved to be an effective adaptation to plantation and its successor societies.

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          Quando cheguei à Universidade da Flórida, em 1981, fui informado de que Charles Wagley não estava aceitando novos estudantes de pós-graduação. Após minha primeira aula com Wagley, ele concordou em ser meu orientador e me tornei o último estudante que aceitou. Apesar de ser mais conhecido por sua sensível e pioneira etnografia das populações indígenas e camponesas, e por seus influentes panoramas antropológicos/históricos do Brasil e da América Latina, são consideráveis as contribuições de Wagley e de seus estudantes para o estudo das culturas afro-americanas e das relações raciais nas Américas. Entre os importantes conceitos articulados por Wagley, estão os de 'raça social', 'Plantation America' e 'comunidades locais amorfas e fracamente organizadas, sem limites claros no espaço ou pertencimento'. Wagley orientou minha pesquisa de doutorado no Haiti, na qual desenvolvi o seu conceito, propondo o de 'amorfismo cultural' enquanto 'estilo cultural global' (conforme Kroeber) das culturas da diáspora africana na esfera cultural da Plantation America: um princípio organizador fundamental que provou ser uma adaptação efetiva à plantation e às suas sociedades sucessoras.

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                bgoeldi
                Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
                Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Ciênc. hum.
                MCTI/Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Belém )
                2178-2547
                December 2014
                : 9
                : 3
                : 695-705
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                [1 ] Appalachian State University United States
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                S1981-81222014000300010
                10.1590/1981-81222014000300010
                823fd66d-8927-441f-b5fc-7fdfc44b2355

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                Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=1981-8122&lng=en
                Categories
                ANTHROPOLOGY
                ARCHAEOLOGY

                Archaeology,Anthropology
                African Diaspora,Afro-America,Plantation America,Race relations,Diáspora africana,Afro-América,Relações raciais

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