The Archaeology And Ethnography Of Central Africa

Author : James Denbow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040701
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa written by James Denbow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.

Author : James Raymond Denbow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107703070
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa written by James Raymond Denbow and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3,000 years. The archaeological data presented in this volume comes from a pivotal area through which, as linguistic and historical reconstructions have long indicated, Bantu-speaking peoples expanded before reaching eastern and southern Africa. Despite its historical importance, the prehistory of the Atlantic coastal regions of west-central Africa has until now remained almost unknown. James Denbow offers an imaginative approach to this subject, integrating the scientific side of fieldwork with the interplay of history, ethnography, politics, economics, and personalities. The resulting 'anthropology of archaeology' highlights the connections between past and present, change and modernity, in one of the most inaccessible and poorly known regions of west-central and southern Africa.

Author : Gerry Wait
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784919950
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology and Ethnography Along the Loango Coast in the South West of the Republic of Congo written by Gerry Wait and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) project in the southwest region of the Republic of the Congo, undertaken to identify and evaluate cultural resources which might need further investigation. The study also reports on ethnographic surveys considering intangible cultural heritage.

Author : Francis L. van Noten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Central Africa written by Francis L. van Noten and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Whitley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135165439X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Archaeology written by David Whitley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural models to understand symbolism and belief. How does an archaeologist interpret the past? Which theories are relevant, what kinds of data must be acquired, and how can interpretations be derived? One interpretive approach, developed in southern Africa in the 1980s, has been particularly successful even if still not widely known globally. With an expressed commitment to scientific method, it has resulted in deeper, well-tested understandings of belief, ritual, settlement patterns and social systems. This volume brings together a series of papers that demonstrate and illustrate this approach to archaeological interpretation, including contributions from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, in the process highlighting innovative methodological and substantive research that improves our understanding of the human past. Professional archaeological researchers would be the primary audience of this book. Because of its theoretical and methodological emphasis, it will also be relevant to method and theory courses and postgraduate students.

Author : Joseph O. Vogel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135506736
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Zimbabwe written by Joseph O. Vogel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. This research guide was written as a comprehensive, though by no means exhaustive, survey of the literature pertinent to studying the indigenous complex societies of south central Africa. Although the paramount focus of the compilation was the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe, the author has drawn from a broad geographical area and a wider period of time than that usually associated with Zimbabwean culture in order to demonstrate the cultural background for the growth of monumental trading towns in south central Africa.

Author : Graham Connah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316462412
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Civilizations written by Graham Connah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent. Graham Connah focuses upon the archaeological research of two key aspects of complexity, urbanism and state formation, in ten main areas of Africa: Egypt, North Africa, Nubia, Ethiopia, the West African savanna, the West African forest, the East African coast and islands, the Zimbabwe Plateau, parts of Central Africa and South Africa. The book's main concern is to review the available evidence in its varied environmental settings, and to consider possible explanations of the developments that gave rise to it. Extensively illustrated, including new maps and plans, and offering an extended list of references, this is essential reading for students of archaeology, anthropology, African history, black studies and social geography.

Author : Daryll Forde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138232174
Total Pages : 6036 pages
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Download or read book Ethnographic Survey of Africa written by Daryll Forde and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 6036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as ethnographic research which, in 1945, had only just begun. Each volume in the Ethnographic Survey of Africa contains sections as follows: Physical Environment, Linguistic Data, Demography, History & Traditions of Origi, Nomenclature, Grouping, Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial, Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice, Economy & Trade, Domestic Architecture. Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, in print or ebook formats and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, which will be available to view on https://www.routledge.com/ or available as pdfs from the publishers.

Author : Daryll Forde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book Ethnographic Survey of Africa written by Daryll Forde and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Saidi
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463274
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa written by Christine Saidi and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical reassessment of the importance of women in East-Central African society during the precolonial period.