Trading Tones: Exploring the Soundscape of Human Trafficking in Spanish Colonial Panama (2022)
Felipe Gaitán Ammann (Author)
Historical Archaeology
Volume: 56
Issue: 2
Pages: 199-216
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
Set in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Old Panama (1519–1671), the House of the Genoese––Slavery Memorial Museum project brings together the lessons of over a decade of archaeological and archival research concentrating on the ruins of one of the largest centers of human trafficking to have operated in Spanish America in the late 1600s. Building upon a growing body of literature addressing phenomenological approaches in historical archaeology and museum studies, this article explores how an object-based reenactment of the soundscape of Old Panama’s slave market can allow the rethinking of its remains as a powerful lieu de mémoire, critically showcasing the difficult legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. Moving beyond traditional visual cues tending to essentialize the experience of both slavers and the enslaved in the New World, this preliminary work examines the acoustic dimensions of the slave trade as a relevant field of memorialization.
...MoreArticle Karen Bescherer Metheny (2022) Connecting Archaeological Practice with the Senses and Past Bodily Experience: Introduction to “Sensory Engagement in Historical Archaeology”. Historical Archaeology (pp. 172-183).
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