Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa : archaeological perspectives / edited by J. Cameron Monroe, Akinwumi Ogundiran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monroe, J. Cameron.

Ogundiran, Akinwumi

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape archaeology.

Commerce.

History.

Social aspects.

Political culture.

Social structure.

Africa, West--History--To 1864.

Africa, West.

Social structure--Africa, West--History.

Political culture--Africa, West--History.

Africa, West--Commerce--Social aspects--History.

Africa, West--Commerce--Political aspects--History.

Landscape archaeology--Africa, West.

West Africa.

Physical Description:

xx, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a briad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature and structures of African political and social relations changed across regions in this period. This is only the second volume in a decade to focus on the archeology of this period in West Africa, and the first volume in sub-Saharan Africanist archeology to be focused in the recent past in oue sub-region of the continent from a coherent methodological and theoretical standpoint"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran

Atlantic impacts on inland Senegambia : French penetration and African initiatives in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gajaaga and Bundu (Upper Senegal River) / Ibrahima Thiaw

Political transformations and cultural landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic era : an alternative view from the Siin (Senegal)? / François Richard

The Eguafo polity : between the traders and raiders / Sam Spiers

From the shadow of an Atlantic citadel : an archaeology of the Huedan countryside / Neil L. Norman

Segou, slavery, and sifinso / Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara

Building the state in Dahomey : power and landscape on the Bight of Benin / J. Cameron Monroe

The formation of an Oyo imperial colonial enclave during the Atlantic age / Akinwumi Ogundiran

The rise of the Bassar chiefdom in the context of Africa's internal frontier / Philip de Barros

Fortified towns of the Koinadugu Plateau : northern Sierra Leone in the pre-Atlantic and Atlantic worlds / Christopher R. DeCorse

Rethinking the Mandara political landscape : cultural developments, climate, and an entry into history in the second millennium AD / Scott MacEachern

The local and the global : historiographical reflections on West Africa and the Atlantic age / Ray A. Kea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107009394

1107009391

OCLC:

726620684