Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa
Subtitle: archaeological perspectives
By: [edited by] J. Cameron Monroe, Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781107009394
Subjects: Commerce; Political culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology; Social aspects; Political aspects; Landscape archaeology; Social structure; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.