Ethnic Ambiguity and the African Past
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2nd Millennium
African archaeology
anthropological theory
archaeological perspectives on ethnicity
Cape Verde Peninsula
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Colonial Administrations
Conducted Test Excavations
cultural memory studies
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Fuuta Tooro
historical ethnography
identity formation
Indigenous Ethnography
Ivory Coast
Luba Kasai
Luba State
Mandara Mountains
Material Culture Patterning
Niger Benue Confluence
Oriental Distribution
ORU
Pre-colonial Rwanda
Precolonial Rwanda
Red Slip
Sample Additional Sites
Seereer Groups
Segou Region
Semiotic Ideologies
Si Te
sociopolitical structures
Twisted Cord Roulette
Van Noten
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781629580074
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and power. The various chapters cover broad geographic and temporal ground, following an arc across Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and East Africa, spanning from prehistory to the colonial period.
Francois G Richard, Kevin C MacDonald
