A History of African Archaeology
Author : Peter Robertshaw
Publisher : James Currey (GB)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Peter Robertshaw
Publisher : James Currey (GB)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Ann Brower Stahl
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781405137126
A landmark introduction to the archaeology of Africa that challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims. Provides an unprecedented and exciting introduction to the archaeology of AfricaChallenges misconceptions & claims about Africa's past and teaches students how to evaluate these claims Includes a thoughtful introduction that explores the contexts that have shaped archaeological knowledge of Africa's past Lays out research questions that have shaped the contours of African archaeology Comprised of chapters specifically written for thi.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1077 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199569886
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 : R. Blench
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780759104662
Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa
Author : Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : History
ISBN :
Through interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, the dynamics of a comparative transatlantic archaeology is developed.
Author : John Edward Philips
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580462563
A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history. Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as a reference for professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants to understand how African history is written. Africa in Time Perspective was written in the 1960s, when African history was a new field of research. This new book reflects the development of African history since then. It opens with a comprehensive introduction by Daniel McCall, followed by a chapter by the editor explainingwhat African history is [and is not] in the context of historical theory and the development of historical narrative, the humanities, and social sciences. The first half of the book focuses on sources of historical data while thesecond half examines different perspectives on history. The editor's final chapter explains how to combine various sorts of evidence into a coherent account of African history. Writing African History will become the most important guide to African history for the 21st century. Contributors: Bala Achi, Isaac Olawale Albert, Diedre L. Badéjo, Dorothea Bedigian, Barbara M. Cooper, Henry John Drewal, Christopher Ehret, Toyin Falola, David Henige, Joseph E. Holloway, John Hunwick, S. O. Y. Keita, William G. Martin, Daniel McCall, Susan Keech McIntosh, Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu, Kathleen Sheldon, John Thornton, and Masao Yoshida. John Edwards Philips is professor of international society, Hirosaki University, and author of Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria [Madison, University of Wisconsin African Studies Center, 2000].
Author : Peter Ridgway Schmidt
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759109650
Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory, and historical misrepresentations of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology. Allowing Africa to speak for itself without colonial interpreters, Historical Archaeology in Africa will be of interest not only to historians and archaeologists, but to all concerned with Africa's past and present.
Author : Andrew M. Reid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441988637
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 : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521633895
This book provides an archaeological synthesis of Southern Africa.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759102590
From the exodus of early modern humans to the growth of African diasporas, Africa has had a long and complex relationship with the outside world. More than a passive vessel manipulated by external empires, the African experience has been a complex mix of internal geographic, environmental, sociopolitical and economic factors, and regular interaction with outsiders. Peter Mitchell attempts to outline these factors over the long period of modern human history, to find their commonalities and development over time. He examines African interconnections through Egypt and Nubia with the Near East, through multiple Indian Ocean trading systems, through the trans-Saharan trade, and through more recent incursion of Europeans. The African diaspora is also explored for continuities and resistance to foreign domination. Commonalities abound in the African experience, as do complexities of each individual period and interrelationship. Mitchell's sweeping analysis of African connections place the continent in context of global prehistory and history. The book should be of interest not only to Africanists, but to many other archaeologists, historians, geographers, linguists, social scientists and their students.