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Author : R. Blench
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0759104662
Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa
Author : Kathryn M. de Luna,Jeffrey B. Fleisher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319910369
This volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data. The introduction lays out the supplemental approach, situating it in the broader context of similar interdisciplinary research methods in other world regions. Reflecting the arguments of the volume and its goal to document the process rather than the outcome of interdisciplinary collaboration, the volume is organized into two two-chapter case studies. Within each case study, the non-specialist develops an historical interpretation using their own research findings and published data from the other discipline.This chapter is followed by critical commentary from the specialist, a dialogue clarifying the commentary and specialists’ methods, and a second short historical interpretation that deploys insights from the supplemental approach. The conclusion reflects on the challenges of disciplinary conventions to interdisciplinary research and the contribution of the supplemental approach to efforts to know the history of oral societies in Africa and beyond
Author : Francois G Richard,Kevin C MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315428994
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.
Author : Ahmed G. Fahmy,Stefanie Kahlheber,A. Catherine D'Andrea
Publisher : Africa Magna Verlag
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783937248325
Archaeobotany has significantly increased our knowledge of the relationships between humans and plants throughout the ages. As is amply illustrated in this volume, botanical remains preserved in archaeological contexts have great potential to inform us about past environments and the various methods used by ancient peoples to exploit and cultivate plants. This volume presents the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on African Archaeobotany (IWAA) held at Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt, on 13-15 June 2009. Studies presented herein clearly illustrate that African archaeobotany is a dynamic field, with many advances in techniques and important case studies presented since the first meeting of IWAA held in 1994. Authors have employed classical and new archaeobotanical techniques, in addition to linguistics and ethnoarchaeology to increase our knowledge about the role of plants in ancient African societies. This book covers a wide range of African countries including Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria, South Africa, and the Canary Islands. It is of interest to archaeobotanists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, agronomists, and plant ecologists.
Author : Ann Brower Stahl
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1405101555
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 Africa Challenges 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 this volume by prominent archaeologists with regional and topical expertise
Author : Christopher Ehret,Merrick Posnansky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520314740
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Author : Andrew M. Reid,Paul J. Lane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306479960
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 Ridgway Schmidt
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0759109656
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 : Peter Robertshaw
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0435080415
This is the first history of the development of the subject which is the major source of information on Africa's past. Archaeologists have excavated in the continent for two hundred years. The pace of this research has quickened over the last half-century. The contributors place the subject within a broader political, social, and economic context.
Author : Rainer Vossen,Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199609895
Une source inconnue indique : "This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It covers a wide range of topics, from grammatical sketches of individual languages to sociocultural and extralinguistic issues."
Author : Roger Blench,Matthew Spriggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134816248
Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.
Author : Gilbert Pwiti,Marie de Chantal Radimilahy,Felix Chami
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132835773
Author : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802484
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Author : Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191626159
Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date 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. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.
Author : Cynthia Kros,Helen Ludlow,Geoffrey Blundell,Jan Boeyens,Amanda Esterhuysen,Rachel King,Lize Kriel,Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi,Grant McNulty,Hlonipha Mokoena,Fred Morton,Muchaparara Musemwa,Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu,Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu,Himal Ramji,Justine Wintjes
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781776147274
Archives of Times Past' explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa's time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: 'How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?'0The essays by well-known historians, archaeologists and researchers engage these questions from a range of perspectives and in illuminating ways. Written from personal experience, they capture how these experts encountered their archives of knowledge beyond the textbook.0The essays are written at a time when public discussion about the history of southern Africa before the colonial era is taking place more openly than at any other time in the last hundred years They will appeal to students, academics, educationists, teachers, archivists, and heritage, museum practitioners and the general public.