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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132649455
Author : Gavin Lucas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306485398
The book explores three key groups: The Dutch East India Company, the free settlers, and the slaves, through a number of archaeological sites and contexts. With the archaeological evidence, the book examines how these different groups were enmeshed within racial, sexual, and class ideologies in the broader context of capitalism and colonialism, and draws extensively on current social theory, in particular post-colonialism, feminism, and Marxism.
Author : Natalie Swanepoel,Amanda Esterhuysen,Phil Bonner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776142286
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 : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009324731
This revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than 3 million years.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009324762
Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition. Building on its rich rock art heritage, archaeologists have developed theoretical work that continues to influence rock art studies worldwide, with the relationship between archaeological and anthropological data central to understanding past hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, and farmer communities alike. New work on pre-colonial states contests models that previously explained their emergence via external trade, while the transformations wrought by European colonialism are being rewritten to emphasise Indigenous agency, feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline itself. Inhabited by humans longer than almost anywhere else and with an unusually varied, complex past, southern Africa thus has much to contribute to archaeology worldwide. In this revised and updated edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive and extensively illustrated synthesis of its archaeology over more than three million years.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-03
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : 0521533848
Some of the earliest human populations lived in Southern Africa, and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and on the emergence of modern humans.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : IND:30000122780962
Author : David Whitley,Johannes Loubser,Gavin Whitelaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351654395
Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural models to understand symbolism and belief. How does an archaeologist interpret the past? Which theories are relevant, what kinds of data must be acquired, and how can interpretations be derived? One interpretive approach, developed in southern Africa in the 1980s, has been particularly successful even if still not widely known globally. With an expressed commitment to scientific method, it has resulted in deeper, well-tested understandings of belief, ritual, settlement patterns and social systems. This volume brings together a series of papers that demonstrate and illustrate this approach to archaeological interpretation, including contributions from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, in the process highlighting innovative methodological and substantive research that improves our understanding of the human past. Professional archaeological researchers would be the primary audience of this book. Because of its theoretical and methodological emphasis, it will also be relevant to method and theory courses and postgraduate students.
Author : South African Archaeological Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : IND:30000126797772
Author : Nick Shepherd
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781868427055
An important and original contribution to the study of the archive, The Mirror in the Ground approaches the discipline of archaeology in South Africa from the perspective of an interest in visualities. Author Nick Shepherd argues that it makes sense to talk about an archaeological aesthetics. The book explores the part a specifically archaeological concern with material cultures, objectified bodies and sites on the landscape has played in a local history of looking. Drawing from the archive of the South African archaeologist John Goodwin (1900-1959), the book interrogates the role of photography in the making of a disciplinary project in archaeology. JM Coetzee describes the book as 'a fresh way of looking at the photographic archive, with a commentary as moving and compassionate as it is unsettling.' Nick Shepherd is Associate Professor of Archaeology and African Studies at the University of Cape Town, where he convenes a graduate programme on Public Culture and Heritage. The Mirror in the Ground is the first volume in the relaunched Series in Visual Histories, produced by the Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA) at the University of Cape Town.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : IND:30000107288262
Author : James Denbow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107040700
This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.
Author : Clavil Garth Sampson
Publisher : New York : Academic Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008874300
Author : Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1077 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199569885
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 : H. J. Deacon,Janette Deacon
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0761990860
Specialists in Stone Age archaeology in South Africa present the results of nearly 150 years of research that follows the development of humans from their early beginnings to the late 19th century. They offer evidence that the roots of South African society stretch back into the Stone Age. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR