ISBN:
9780759109650
,
9780759109643
,
0759109656
,
0759109648
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 316 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
Series Statement:
The African archaeology series
DDC:
960/.1
Keywords:
Archaeology and history
;
Africa Antiquities
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Archäologie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Issues of representation, social memory, and oral traditions -- Questions that count : Africa and beyond -- Oral traditions and archaeology : first perspectives -- Critical historical archaeologies and historical representations / with Jonathan Walz -- Social memory, mnemonics, and historical archaeology -- Tropes, space, and historical archaeology -- Moving historical archaeology to symbolic space -- Historical archaeology and representations of iron technology in Africa -- The politics of history making and historical representation of indigenous production -- Historical representations of the Cwezi "dynasty" : how oral traditions and historical archaeology came to support a historical "House of Cards" -- The Cwezi myth of statehood : its resurrection and demise / with Kharyssa Rhodes -- Foreigners or endogenous development in the Horn of Africa? new representations from historical archaeology
Description / Table of Contents:
Issues of representation, social memory, and oral traditionsQuestions that count : Africa and beyond -- Oral traditions and archaeology : first perspectives -- Critical historical archaeologies and historical representations / with Jonathan Walz -- Social memory, mnemonics, and historical archaeology -- Tropes, space, and historical archaeology -- Moving historical archaeology to symbolic space -- Historical archaeology and representations of iron technology in Africa -- The politics of history making and historical representation of indigenous production -- Historical representations of the Cwezi "dynasty" : how oral traditions and historical archaeology came to support a historical "House of Cards" -- The Cwezi myth of statehood : its resurrection and demise / with Kharyssa Rhodes -- Foreigners or endogenous development in the Horn of Africa? new representations from historical archaeology.
Description / Table of Contents:
Questions that count : Africa and beyond -- Oral traditions and archaeology : first perspectives -- Critical historical archaeologies and historical representations / with Jonathan Walz -- Social memory, mnemonics, and historical archaeology -- Tropes, space, and historical archaeology -- Moving historical archaeology to symbolic space -- Historical archaeology and representations of iron technology in Africa -- The politics of history making and historical representation of indigenous production -- Historical representations of the Cwezi "dynasty" : how oral traditions and historical archaeology came to support a historical "House of Cards" -- The Cwezi myth of statehood : its resurrection and demise / with Kharyssa Rhodes -- Foreigners of endogenous development in the Horn of Africa? new representations from historical archaeology
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13105
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f3s6-aa
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