Historical archaeology in Africa representation, social memory, and oral traditions

Issues of representation, social memory, and oral traditionsQuestions 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 archaeolog...

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1. Verfasser: Schmidt, Peter Ridgway (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Schmidt, Peter R. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Lanham, Md. u.a. AltaMira Press c 2006
Schriftenreihe:The African archaeology series
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Zusammenfassung:Issues of representation, social memory, and oral traditionsQuestions 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 or endogenous development in the Horn of Africa? new representations from historical archaeology.
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
Issues of representation, social memory, and oral traditions -- 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 or endogenous development in the Horn of Africa? new representations from historical archaeology
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 316 S.
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
ISBN:9780759109650
978-0-7591-0965-0
9780759109643
978-0-7591-0964-3
0759109656
0-7591-0965-6
0759109648
0-7591-0964-8