Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa : Archaeological Perspectives
J. Cameron. Monroe
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (412 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; POWER AND LANDSCAPE IN ATLANTIC WEST AFRICA; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Preface; NOTE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Contributors; 1: Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa; INTRODUCTION; WEST AFRICA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD: MATERIAL NARRATIVES OF CULTURAL ENTANGLEMENT; ARCHAEOLOGIES OF POWER AND LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPES OF POWER IN ATLANTIC WEST AFRICA; CONCLUDING REMARKS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; PART I: FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES. - 2: Atlantic Impacts on Inland Senegambia: French Penetration and African Initiatives in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Gajaaga and Bundu (Upper Senegal River)INTRODUCTION; THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH; TYPES OF HISTORICAL SITE; SETTLEMENT DYNAMICS; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 3: Political Transformations and Cultural Landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic Era: An Alternative View from the Siin (Senegal)?; INTRODUCTION: MINDING POLITICAL LANDSCAPES; ATLANTIC TURBULENCES AND SENEGAMBIAN HISTORY; WRITING THE SIIN FROM THE MARGINS OF HISTORY. - CONCLUSIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 5: From the Shadow of an Atlantic Citadel:An Archaeology of the Huedan Countryside; INTRODUCTION; ATLANTIC CITADELS AND THEIR COUNTRYSIDES; THE SAVI COUNTRYSIDE FROM THE CITADEL LOOKING OUT; FROM THE SAVI COUNTRYSIDE LOOKING INTO THE CITADEL; SMOKE AND ASHES; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; PART II: STATE-GENERATED LANDSCAPES; 6: Segou, Slavery, and Sifinso; INTRODUCTION; SEGOU 2005-2010; SLAVERY AND SEGOU'S SETTLEMENT SYSTEM; Marka towns and the "eternal landscape"; The state-generated landscape: Fadugu, Dendugu, and Cikebugu. - Ceramics as indicator of Oyo colonization at Ede-Ile. - SifinsoDISCUSSION: SETTLEMENT TYPE AND SETTLEMENT SIZE; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 7: Building the State in Dahomey: Power and Landscape on the Bight of Benin; INTRODUCTION; ROYAL PALACES AND POLITICAL POWER IN DAHOMEY; The seventeenth century; The eighteenth century; The nineteenth century; NINETEENTH-CENTURY PALACE CENTERS AS BUREAUCRATIC CENTRAL PLACES; CONCLUSION; AKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; 8: The Formation of an Oyo Imperial Colony during the Atlantic Age; INTRODUCTION; COLONIZATION AND COLONY IN EMPIRE STUDIES; ARCHAEOLOGY OF OYO COLONIZATION AT EDE-ILE. - THE SIIN LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT: METHOD AND EVIDENTIAL ARCHIVESATLANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS: SETTLEMENT LANDSCAPES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN SIIN (1400-1900); "ROOTED IN THE SOIL": MAKING ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES OF SENEGAMBIA'S PAST?; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; 4: The Eguafo Polity: Between the Traders and Raiders; INTRODUCTION; CHARTING TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE; EQUAFO; ARCHAEOLOGY AT EGUAFO; Period one: Pre-contact to the sixteenth century; Period two: Seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century; Period three: The nineteenth century; DISCUSSION. - This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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| Emner | Landscape archaeology - Africa, West
Political culture - History - Africa, West Social structure - History - Africa, West Africa, West -- Commerce -- Political aspects -- History. Vis mer... Africa, West -- Commerce -- Social aspects -- History.
Africa, West -- History -- To 1864. Political culture -- Africa, West -- History. Social structure -- Africa, West -- History. Afrika Arkeologi Handel History & Archaeology Landskapsarkeologi Regions & Countries - Africa Samfunn Sosiale strukturer Vest-Afrika |
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| ISBN | 9781107009394
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