ISBN:
9027979200
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 636 S
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graph. Darst., Kt., Taf., Tab
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25 cm
Series Statement:
World anthropology
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. West African Culture Dynamics
DDC:
966
Keywords:
Africa, West
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History
;
Africa, West
;
Antiquities
;
Ethnology
;
Africa, West
;
Africa, West
;
Social conditions
;
Westafrika
;
Kulturwandel
Abstract:
Some formulations on the prehistory of West Africa / B.K. Swartz, Jr. -- Processes of coastal evolution in West Africa during the Quaternary / Bassey W. Andah -- The status of Guinea coast paleoarchaeological knowledge as seen from Legon / B.K. Swartz, Jr. -- Excavations at Rim, north-central Upper Volta : a paleoecological study / Bassey W. Andah -- The origins and domestication of yams in Africa / D.G. Coursey -- The Kintampo culture and its place in the economic prehistory of West Africa / Colin Flight -- Archaeological data on the origins of cultivation in the southwestern Sahara and their implications for West Africa / Patrick J. Munson -- Comments on the advent of plant cultivation in West Africa / David V. Ellis -- History of crops and peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900 / Nicholas David -- The Sahara as a center of ceramic dispersion in northern Africa / T.R. Hays -- Archaeology east of the Niger : a review of cultural-historical developments / Donald D. Hartle -- The Ntereso culture in Ghana / Oliver Davies -- The emergence of iron technology in West Africa, with special emphasis on the Nok culture of Nigeria / John A. Rustad -- The geographic distribution of footed bowls in the Upper and Middle Niger region / R.M.A. Bedaux -- Speculations on functions of some prehistoric archaeological materials from Sierra Leone / John H. Atherton -- Research trends in West African history / Raymond E. Dumett -- Prolegomena to the study of the culture history of the Igbo-speaking peoples of Nigeria / A.E. Afigbo -- An ethnohistorical reconstruction of traditional Igbo society / S.J.S. Cookey -- Old Akyem and the origins of Akyems Abuakwa and Kotuku 1675-1775 / Ronald R. Atkinson -- Administration and trade in the Akwamu empire, 1681-1730 / Ray A. Kea -- The dynamics and symbolism of Idoma kingship / Robert G. Armstrong -- Gao and the Almoravids : a hypothesis / J.O. Hunwick -- Timbuktu : a case study of the role of legend in history / Eugenia Herbert -- The Julas in western Sudanese history : long-distance traders and developers of resources / B. Marie Perinbam -- Slave acquisition and delivery in precolonial Hausaland / Jan S. Hogendorn -- Accommodation and assimilation in the landlord-stranger relationship / Bruce L. Mouser -- Some paradoxes of pacification : Senegal and France in the 1850's and 1860's / Leland C. Barrows -- Changing perspectives on African resistance movements and the case of the Baule peoples / Timothy C. Weiskel -- Nation building, ethnicity, and the new imperialism : dilemmas of political development in Liberia / Henry S. Wilson -- Long-term structural change in the economy of Central Niger / Stephen Baier
Note:
Contains in part papers presented at the Ninth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
,
Enth. Bibliogr. und Index
,
Some formulations on the prehistory of West Africa / B.K. Swartz, Jr.
,
Processes of coastal evolution in West Africa during the Quaternary / Bassey W. Andah
,
The status of Guinea coast paleoarchaeological knowledge as seen from Legon / B.K. Swartz, Jr.
,
Excavations at Rim, north-central Upper Volta : a paleoecological study / Bassey W. Andah
,
The origins and domestication of yams in Africa / D.G. Coursey
,
The Kintampo culture and its place in the economic prehistory of West Africa / Colin Flight
,
Archaeological data on the origins of cultivation in the southwestern Sahara and their implications for West Africa / Patrick J. Munson
,
Comments on the advent of plant cultivation in West Africa / David V. Ellis
,
History of crops and peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900 / Nicholas David
,
The Sahara as a center of ceramic dispersion in northern Africa / T.R. Hays
,
Archaeology east of the Niger : a review of cultural-historical developments / Donald D. Hartle
,
The Ntereso culture in Ghana / Oliver Davies
,
The emergence of iron technology in West Africa, with special emphasis on the Nok culture of Nigeria / John A. Rustad
,
The geographic distribution of footed bowls in the Upper and Middle Niger region / R.M.A. Bedaux
,
Speculations on functions of some prehistoric archaeological materials from Sierra Leone / John H. Atherton
,
Research trends in West African history / Raymond E. Dumett
,
Prolegomena to the study of the culture history of the Igbo-speaking peoples of Nigeria / A.E. Afigbo
,
An ethnohistorical reconstruction of traditional Igbo society / S.J.S. Cookey
,
Old Akyem and the origins of Akyems Abuakwa and Kotuku 1675-1775 / Ronald R. Atkinson
,
Administration and trade in the Akwamu empire, 1681-1730 / Ray A. Kea
,
The dynamics and symbolism of Idoma kingship / Robert G. Armstrong
,
Gao and the Almoravids : a hypothesis / J.O. Hunwick
,
Timbuktu : a case study of the role of legend in history / Eugenia Herbert
,
The Julas in western Sudanese history : long-distance traders and developers of resources / B. Marie Perinbam
,
Slave acquisition and delivery in precolonial Hausaland / Jan S. Hogendorn
,
Accommodation and assimilation in the landlord-stranger relationship / Bruce L. Mouser
,
Some paradoxes of pacification : Senegal and France in the 1850's and 1860's / Leland C. Barrows
,
Changing perspectives on African resistance movements and the case of the Baule peoples / Timothy C. Weiskel
,
Nation building, ethnicity, and the new imperialism : dilemmas of political development in Liberia / Henry S. Wilson
,
Long-term structural change in the economy of Central Niger / Stephen Baier.
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