ISBN:
9781315429014
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1315429012
,
9781315428994
,
1315428997
,
1315428989
,
9781315428987
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (296 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Keywords:
Ethnoarchaeology / Africa
;
Africans / Ethnic identity / History
;
Indigenous peoples / Material culture / Africa
;
Africa / Civilization
;
Ethnoarchéologie / Afrique
;
Africains / Identité ethnique / Histoire
;
Indigenous peoples / Material culture
;
Civilization
;
Ethnoarchaeology
;
Africa
;
History
Abstract:
The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous dimensions. Is ethnicity a useful analytic? What can archaeology say about the kinds of deeper time questions which scholars have asked of identities in Africa? Eleven authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging, and difference in Africa were made and unmade. They examine how these intersect with other salient domains of social experience: states, landscapes, discou
Description / Table of Contents:
1. From invention to ambiguity : the persistence of ethnicity in Africa / François G. Richard and Kevin C. MacDonald -- 2. Shapen signs : pottery techniques, indexicality, and ethnic identity in the Saalum, Senegambia (ca. 1700-1950) / Cameron Gokee -- 3. 'The very embodiment of the black peasant?' : archaeology, history, and the making of the Seereer of Siin (Senegal) / François G. Richard -- 4. 'A chacun son Bambara," encore une fois : history, archaeology and Bamana origins / Kevin C. MacDonald -- 5. The uses of the past : indigenous ethnography, archaeology and ethnicity in Nigeria / Roger Blench -- 6. What was the Wandala State and who are the Wandala? / Scott MacEachern -- 7. Who's who? : the case of the Luba / Pierre de Maret and Alexandre Livingstone Smith -- 8. Political and theoretical problems for the archaeological identification of precolonial Twa, Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda / John Giblin -- 9. Ethnicity, archaeological ceramics and changing paradigms in East African archaeology / Paul J. Lane -- 10. Ethnic ambiguity : a cultural evolutionary perspective / Stephen J. Shennan
Note:
Originally published 2015 by Left Coast Press, Inc
DOI:
10.4324/9781315429014
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315429014
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