Historical archaeology in Africa : representation, social memory, and oral traditions
| 1. Verfasser: |
Schmidt, Peter R. (Peter Ridgway), 1942-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Lanham, MD :
AltaMira Press,
2006.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xi, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
African archaeology series
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| ISBN: | 0-7591-0964-8 0-7591-0965-6 978-0-7591-0965-0 9780759109643 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Africa |
| Online-Zugang: |
Table of contents only Book review (H-Net) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Questions that count : Africa and beyond
- Oral traditions and archaeology : first perspectives
- Critical historical archaeologies and historical representations / with Jonathan Walz
- Social memory, mnemonics, and historical archaeology
- Tropes, space, and historical archaeology
- Moving historical archaeology to symbolic space
- Historical archaeology and representations of iron technology in Africa
- The politics of history making and historical representation of indigenous production
- Historical representations of the Cwezi "dynasty" : how oral traditions and historical archaeology came to support a historical "House of Cards"
- The Cwezi myth of statehood : its resurrection and demise / with Kharyssa Rhodes
- Foreigners of endogenous development in the Horn of Africa? new representations from historical archaeology.
