Ethnic ambiguity and the African past
Subtitle: materiality, history, and the shaping of cultural identities
By: edited by François G. Richard, Kevin C. MacDonald
Series: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Publisher: Left Coast Press, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781629580074; 9781629580098; 9781629580104
Subjects: Ethnoarchaeology; Africans; Ethnic identity; History; Indigenous peoples; Material culture; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From invention to ambiguity : the persistence of ethnicity in Africa  -- François G. Richard and Kevin C. MacDonald; title: Shapen signs : pottery techniques, indexicality, and ethnic identity in the Saalum, Senegambia (c. 1700-1950)  -- Cameron Gokee; title: "The very embodiment of the black peasant?" : archaeology, history, and the making of the Seereer of Siin (senegal)  -- François G. Richard; title: "A chacun son Bambara," encore une fois : history, archaeology and Bamana origins  -- Kevin C. MacDonald; title: The uses of the past : indigenous ethnography, archaeology and ethnicity in Nigeria  -- Roger Blench; title: What was the Wandala State and who are the Wandala?  -- Scott MacEachern; title: Who's who? The case of the Luba  -- Pierre de Maret and Alexandre Livingstone Smith; title: Political and theoretical problems for the archaeological identification of pre-colonial Twa, Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda  -- John Giblin; title: Ethnicity, archaeological ceramics and changing paradigms in East African archaeology  -- Paul J. Lane; title: Ethnic ambiguity : a cultural evolutionary perspective -- Stephen J. Shennan.