Peter R. Schmidt

Historical Archaeology in Africa

Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into the questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons beyond the ethnocentrism of archaeology, as it is defined and practiced in North America. Confronting topics of oral traditions, our orientation to archaeology, and the misrepresentation of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology.

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Produktdetails

• African Archaeology Series
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780759109650
• ISBN-10: 0759109656
• Artikelnr.: 20975953

Autorenporträt

By Peter R. Schmidt

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