Anne Haour

Outsiders and Strangers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Asking what archaeology can bring to the debate on liminal peoples in West African societies, and drawing together for the first time the extensive literature on the subject of outsiders, this volume looks in detail at the role outsiders played in the past 1000 years of the West African past, in particular in the construction of great empires.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780199697748
• ISBN-10: 0199697744
• Artikelnr.: 37604248

Autorenporträt

Anne Haour is a Reader in the Arts & Archaeology of Africa at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. An archaeologist with a background in anthropology, she has written widely on the West African past and developed theoretical questions in several publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
1: Introduction
2: Rulers from Afar
3: Strangers, Traders
4: Craft Specialists
5: Empires
6: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index