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Title Ethnic ambiguity and the African past : materiality, history, and the shaping of cultural identities / [edited by] François G. Richard, Kevin C. MacDonald
Published Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2014

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Contents From invention to ambiguity : the persistence of ethnicity in Africa / François G. Richard and Kevin C. MacDonald -- Shapen signs : pottery techniques, indexicality, and ethnic identity in the Saalum, Senegambia (c. 1700-1950) / Cameron Gokee -- "The very embodiment of the black peasant?" : archaeology, history, and the making of the Seereer of Siin (senegal) / François G. Richard -- "A chacun son Bambara," encore une fois : history, archaeology and Bamana origins / Kevin C. MacDonald -- The uses of the past : indigenous ethnography, archaeology and ethnicity in Nigeria / Roger Blench -- What was the Wandala State and who are the Wandala? / Scott MacEachern -- Who's who? The case of the Luba / Pierre de Maret and Alexandre Livingstone Smith -- Political and theoretical problems for the archaeological identification of pre-colonial Twa, Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda / John Giblin -- Ethnicity, archaeological ceramics and changing paradigms in East African archaeology / Paul J. Lane -- Ethnic ambiguity : a cultural evolutionary perspective / Stephen J. Shennan
Summary The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous dimensions. Is ethnicity a useful analytic? What can archaeology say about the kinds of deeper time questions which scholars have asked of identities in Africa? Eleven authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging, and difference in Africa were made and unmade. They examine how these intersect with other salient domains of social experience: states, landscapes, discou
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnoarchaeology -- Africa
Africans -- Ethnic identity -- History
Indigenous peoples -- Material culture -- Africa
Indigenous peoples -- Material culture
Civilization
Ethnoarchaeology
SUBJECT Africa -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001534
Subject Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Richard, François G., 1976- editor.
MacDonald, Kevin C., editor
ISBN 1629580090
9781629580098