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Publisher : Mark Anderson
ISBN 13 : 0956142702
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Marothodi: The Historical Archaeology of an African Capital written by and published by Mark Anderson. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Steven Anderson
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ISBN 13 : 9780956142764
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Marothodi written by Mark Steven Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the heart of southern Africa, the ruins of a colossal stone walled town bear silent testimony to an African way of life almost forgotten ... Undisturbed since it was abandoned nearly two centuries ago, Marothodi was the royal capital of a Tlokwa chiefdom, the metal-producing ancestors of a community still living in South Africa and Botswana. Using an interdisciplinary combination of archaeology, history, ethnography and oral tradition, the remarkable legacy of Marothodi and its people can now be explored. Filled with the results of recent research and over 170 maps, plans, photographs and illustrations, this book introduces the historical archaeology of one of the great Iron Age Tswana towns of South Africa, and tells a fascinating story of pre-colonial African achievement.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199569886
Total Pages : 1077 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology written by Peter Mitchell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.
Author : Rachel King
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030184129
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa written by Rachel King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rachel King uses excavated material, rock art, archival texts, and object collections to explore different facets of how disorderly figures were shaped through impressions of places and material culture as much as actual transgression. Addressing themes from mobility to wilderness, historiography to violence, resistance to development, King details the world that raiders made over the last two centuries in southern Africa while also critiquing scholars’ tools for describing this world. Offering inter-disciplinary perspectives on the past in Africa’s southernmost mountains, this book grapples with concepts relevant to those interested in rule-breakers and rule-makers, both in Africa and the wider world.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100932473X
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Southern Africa written by Peter Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than 3 million years.
Author : Peter R. Schmidt
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759114153
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Historical Archaeology in Africa written by Peter R. Schmidt and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into the questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons beyond the ethnocentrism of archaeology, as it is defined and practiced in North America. Confronting topics of oral traditions, our orientation to archaeology, and the misrepresentation of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology.
Author : Andrew M. Reid
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1441988637
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book African Historical Archaeologies written by Andrew M. Reid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. Written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, this book represents the first consideration of historical archaeology over the African continent as a whole. This seminal volume also explores Africa's place in global systems of thought and economic development and is of interest to historical archaeologists and historians.
Author : Natalie Swanepoel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776142284
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Five Hundred Years Rediscovered written by Natalie Swanepoel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. This period is one the most formative in relation to southern Africa’s past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours of the sub-continent took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalise and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the region’s expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africa’s colonial past.
Author : François G. Richard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1493926330
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Materializing Colonial Encounters written by François G. Richard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the material production and expression of colonial experiences in Africa. It combines archaeological, historical, and ethnographic sources to explore the diverse pathways, practices, and projects constructed by Africans in their engagement with the forces of colonial modernity and capitalism. This volume is situated in ongoing debates in archaeological and anthropological approaches to materiality. In this respect, it seeks to target archaeologists interested in the conceptual issues provoked by colonial enfoldments. It is also concerned with increasing the visibility of relevant African archaeological literature to scholars of colonialism and imperialism laboring in other fields. This book brings together an array of junior and senior scholars, whose contributions represent a rich sample of the vibrant archaeological research conducted in Africa today, blending conceptual inspiration with robust fieldwork. The chapters target a variety of cultural, historical, and colonial settings. They are driven by a plurality of perspectives, but they are bound by a shared commitment to postcolonial, critical, and material culture theories. While this book focuses on western and southern Africa – the sub-regions that boast the deepest traditions of historical archaeological research in the continent – attention was also placed on including case-studies from traditionally less well-represented areas (East African and Swahili coasts, Madagascar), whose material pasts are nevertheless essential to a wider comprehension of variability and comparability of ‘modern’ colonial conditions. Consequently, this volume lends a unique wide-ranging look at African experiences across the tangle of imperial geographies on the continent, with case-studies focusing on Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch-speaking contexts. This volume is an exciting opportunity to present this work to wider audiences and foster conversations with a wide community of scholars about the material fashioning of colonial life, relations, and configurations of power.
Author : Martin Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134695454
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Archaeology and the Modern World written by Martin Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology and the Modern World advances a new controversial theory of historical archaeology. Using new case studies, Martin Hall evaluates the major theoretical traditions in historical archaeology while contributing significantly to the debate. In this study the author places an emphasis on material culture and the recent past to bring to light a picture of an unstable and violent early colonial world in which material culture played a crucial mediating role.
Author : Martin Hall
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0852557353
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Archaeology Africa written by Martin Hall and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Hall explains how archaeologists find sites, design an excavation, date finds, and write history. The reader is given an outline of the history of the African continent, from the early hominids to the present. South Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books
Author : Peter Robertshaw
Publisher : James Currey (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A History of African Archaeology written by Peter Robertshaw and published by James Currey (GB). This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009391
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa written by J. Cameron Monroe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a briad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature and structures of African political and social relations changed across regions in this period. This is only the second volume in a decade to focus on the archeology of this period in West Africa, and the first volume in sub-Saharan Africanist archeology to be focused in the recent past in oue sub-region of the continent from a coherent methodological and theoretical standpoint"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Merrick Posnansky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857710087
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Africa and Archaeology written by Merrick Posnansky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stimulating account of his life's experiences, Africanist archaeologist Merrick Posnansky takes his readers on an unusual journey across the world, from his origins in a small Jewish community in Manchester to his adventures on archaeological sites in the villages of Africa before finally settling down to teach in Los Angeles. A Jewish British expatriate in an African social world, Posnansky struggled to establish his racial identity in the British colonial world where Jewish communities were rare. He crossed racial and religious boundaries by marrying a Christian woman from Uganda, a highly unusual step at that time. Written in a candid style, these memoirs provide a fascinating glimpse into the changes taking place in modern Africa.
Author : Peter Ridgway Schmidt
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0837198496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Historical Archaeology written by Peter Ridgway Schmidt and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1978-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher R. DeCorse
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780718502478
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade written by Christopher R. DeCorse and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys archaeological data from West Africa, examining sites from the Senegambia to the Cameroon. The focus is on the archaeological record of the past 500 years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social systems, as well as the consequences of European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trave, and the expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. While historians have examined many aspects of this period, the written record provides only limited insight into the history and development of many areas. Archaeology has the potential to provide unique information not accessible through documentary records or oral traditions. Thus, the material record offers the most valuable means of evaluating both change and continuity in African societies over the past 500 years.The geographical and topical scope of this volume is extremely timely. Historical archaeology, particularly aspects dealing with European interactions with indigenous populations, is an area that has received increasing attention over the past decade. There has also been a growing interest in studies of Africa and the African diaspora. This volume, the first to draw together archaeological syntheses of various parts of West Africa, will be an important resource for West Africanists and all researchers interested in the indigenous response to European expansion, as well as for those examining African continuitites in the Americas.>
Author : Kit W. Wesler
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historical Archaeology in Nigeria written by Kit W. Wesler and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical archaeology is experiencing a surge of interest in West Africa, after decades of relative obscurity. The papers in this volume represent the most recent findings by scholars who are committed to melding written history, oral tradition, and archaeological data into a dynamic understanding of the recent centuries in Nigeria. These papers demonstrate that historical archaeology will make a critical contribution to exploring the heritage of modern West Africa from pre-colonial states and empires, through the years of European trade and colonization, into the modern era.
