Materializing Colonial Encounters Archaeologies of African Experience /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Richard, François G. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2015.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Heritage.

Materializing Colonial Encounters: Archaeologies of African Experience investigates the material production and expression of colonial experiences in Africa. It combines archaeological, historical, and ethnographic sources to explore the diverse pathways, practices, and projects constructed by Afric...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction François Richard
• Part 1: Circulations: Scale, Value, Entanglement
• Chapter 1: The devolution of a currency: Cowries as ‘entangled objects’ in the Northern Territories of colonial Ghana Natalie Swanepoel
• Chapter 2: Circulations through ‘worlds apart’: Predation and wealth in the Atlantic era Ann B. Stahl
• Part 2: Mediations: Things, Texts, Oral Traditions
• Chapter 3: Language and historical archaeology: Colonial writing at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795 Yvonne Brink
• Chapter 4: The signs of mission: Rethinking archaeologies of representation Zoe Crossland
• Part 3: Memory: Imagining and Remembering Colonial Worlds
• Chapter 5: Remembering and reworking the Swahili Diwanate: The role of objects and places at Vumba Kuu Stephanie Wynne-Jones
• Chapter 6: Margins of difference: A study of the collapse and restoration of the Kekana chiefdom under the rule of chief Mugombane  Amanda Esterhuysen
• Part 4: Power: Politics, Capitalism, and the Making of Colonial Worlds
• Chapter 7: The ‘dirty’ business of state building in central Madagascar:  From indigenous state to indigenous colonial power to external colonial imposition Susan Kus and Victor Raharijaona
• Chapter 8: The politics of absence: The longue durée of state-peasant interactions in the Siin (Senegal), 1850s-1930s François G. Richard
• Chapter 9: Colonial encounters in the South African diamond fields: Exploring the materiality of finance capital Lindsay Weiss
• Part 5: Discussion
• Chapter 10: On Materializing Colonial Encounters: A commentary Ibrahima Thiaw
• Chapter 11: African archaeologies in transition: Hybrid knowledges of colonial pasts Michael Rowlands.    .