Materializing colonial encounters : archaeologies of African experience /: archaeologies of African experience. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: François G. Richard, editor.
• Editors: Richard, François G, 1976-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (350 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 930.1; Social sciences; Archaeology and history -- Africa; HISTORY -- Ancient -- General; Antiquities; Archaeology and history; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Anthropology; Cultural studies; Archaeology; Anthropology; Cultural heritage; Social Science -- Archaeology; Archaeology; Africa -- Antiquities; Africa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781493926336; 1493926330
• Related ISBNs: 9781493926329; 1493926322
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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