Peter R. Schmidt

Historical Archaeology in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759114159
• Artikelnr.: 39550873

Autorenporträt

Peter R. Schmidt is professor of anthropology at the University of Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I: Issues of Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Questions that Count: Africa and Beyond
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Oral Traditions and Archaeology: First Perspectives
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Critical Hisotrical Archaeologies and Historical
Representations
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Social Memory, Mnemonics, and Historical Archaeology
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Tropes, Space, and Historical Archaeology
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Moving Historical Archaeology to Symbolic Space
Part 9 Part II: Historical Archaeology and Representation
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Historical Archaeology and Representations of Iron
Technology in Africa
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: The Politics of History Making and Historical
Representation of Indigenous Production
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Historical Representations of the Cwezi 'Dynasty':
How Oral Traditions and Historical Archaeology Came to Support an
Historical 'House of Cards'
Chapter 13 Chapter 10: The Cwezi Myth of Statehood: Its Resurrection and
Demise
Chapter 14 Chapter 11: Foreigners of Endogenous Development in the Horn of
Africa? New Representations from Historical Archaeology
Chapter 15 References