Ulteriori informazioni
Informationen zum Autor Peter R. Schmidt is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Florida and Extraordinary Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is author or editor of fifteen books on African history, oral traditions, heritage, and archaeology--many with a focus on the Haya. Klappentext Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into the questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons beyond the ethnocentrism of archaeology, as it is defined and practiced in North America. Confronting topics of oral traditions, our orientation to archaeology, and the misrepresentation of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology. Zusammenfassung Presents an inquiry into the questions that count! proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Confronting topics of oral traditions! our orientation to archaeology! and the misrepresentation of various cultures! this title calls for a pathway to a more nuanced! and more inclusive historical archaeology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Part 2 Part I: Issues of Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Questions that Count: Africa and Beyond Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Oral Traditions and Archaeology: First Perspectives Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Critical Hisotrical Archaeologies and Historical Representations Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Social Memory, Mnemonics, and Historical Archaeology Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Tropes, Space, and Historical Archaeology Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Moving Historical Archaeology to Symbolic Space Part 9 Part II: Historical Archaeology and Representation Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Historical Archaeology and Representations of Iron Technology in Africa Chapter 11 Chapter 8: The Politics of History Making and Historical Representation of Indigenous Production Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Historical Representations of the Cwezi 'Dynasty': How Oral Traditions and Historical Archaeology Came to Support an Historical 'House of Cards' Chapter 13 Chapter 10: The Cwezi Myth of Statehood: Its Resurrection and Demise Chapter 14 Chapter 11: Foreigners of Endogenous Development in the Horn of Africa? New Representations from Historical Archaeology Chapter 15 References ...
