An ancestral encounter in my grandmother’s cooking: archaeological reflections on the preparation of okra as a mediator of afrodiasporic relations

Abstract

This paper is about returning. I return to my grandmother when I transfer what I learned from her to others, celebrating and revering her intellectuality. I return to archaeology when I dedicate myself to reflecting on the paths that preceded me, trying to intertwine them with other knowledge that can broaden the horizons of what this field can be. Understanding archaeology as a means of constructing narratives based on our relations with materials, I believe that the field can offer interesting reflections to broaden our thinking of materialities as mediating agents in afrodiasporic contexts.