Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa (eBook, PDF)

Archaeological Perspectives
Redaktion: Monroe, J. Cameron

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. The essays examine how social and political transformations occurred at the regional level by exploring regional economic networks, population shifts, cultural values and ideologies. The book demonstrates the importance of anthropological insights not only to the broad political history of West Africa, but also to an understanding of political culture as a form of meaningful social practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139211307
• Artikelnr.: 38278443

Inhaltsangabe

Forward Merrick Posnansky; 1. Introduction: the politics of landscape in
Atlantic West Africa J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran; 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) Ibrahima Thiaw; 3. Political
transformations and cultural landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic
era: an alternative view from the Siin (Senegal)? François Richard; 4. The
Eguafo polity: between the traders and raiders Sam Spiers; 5. From the
shadow of an Atlantic citadel: an archaeology of the Huedan countryside
Neil L. Norman; Part II. State-Generated Landscapes: 6. Segou, slavery, and
sifinso Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara; 7. Building the state in
Dahomey: power and landscape on the Bight of Benin J. Cameron Monroe; 8.
The formation of an Oyo imperial colonial enclave during the Atlantic Age
Akinwumi Ogundiran; Part III. Internal Frontier Landscapes: 9. The rise of
the Bassar Chiefdom in the context of Africa's internal frontier Philip de
Barros; 10. Fortified towns of the Koinadugu Plateau: northern Sierra Leone
in the pre-Atlantic and Atlantic worlds Christopher R. DeCorse; 11.
Rethinking the Mandara political landscape: cultural developments, climate,
and an entry into history in the second millennium AD Scott MacEachern;
Part IV. Conclusion: 12. The local and the global: historiographical
reflections on West Africa and the Atlantic Age Ray A. Kea.