Historical archaeology in Africa
Subtitle: representation, social memory, and oral traditions
By: Peter R. Schmidt.
Series: The African archaeology series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780759109643; 9780759109650
Subjects: Archaeology and history -- Africa; Africa -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Questions that count : Africa and beyond; title: Oral traditions and archaeology : first perspectives; title: Critical historical archaeologies and historical representations / with Jonathan Walz; title: Social memory, mnemonics, and historical archaeology; title: Tropes, space, and historical archaeology; title: Moving historical archaeology to symbolic space; title: Historical archaeology and representations of iron technology in Africa; title: The politics of history making and historical representation of indigenous production; title: Historical representations of the Cwezi "dynasty" : how oral traditions and historical archaeology came to support a historical "House of Cards"; title: The Cwezi myth of statehood : its resurrection and demise / with Kharyssa Rhodes; title: Foreigners of endogenous development in the Horn of Africa? new representations from historical archaeology.