Innocent Pikirayi

**Innocent Pikirayi** (an haife shi 1963) farfesa ne a fannin ilimin kimiyya na kayan tarihi kuma Shugaban Sashen Nazarin Anthropology da Archaeology a Jami'ar Pretoria. Yana aiki akan jihohi da al'ummomi a kudancin Afirka. Pikirayi na daga cikin 'yan Zimbabwe na farko da suka fara horar da ilmin kimiyya na kayan tarihi bayan 'yancin kaia kasar Zimbabwe.

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Pikirayi a cikin shekarar 1963 kuma ya girma a Zimuto, Masvingo, Zimbabwe. Ya karanta tarihi a Jami'ar Zimbabwe daga shekarun 1983.  Ƙarƙashin tasirin Peter Garlake da Horace Kaisar Roger Vella ya yanke shawarar ɗaukar ilimin archaeology. A cikin shekarar 1988 ya fara karatun digiri na biyu, wanda Paul Sinclair ke kula da shi a Jami'ar Uppsala.

## Sana'a
Ya kammala karatunsa na digiri na uku a cikin shekarar 1993 a Sashen Nazarin Archaeology, Jami'ar Uppsala, wanda ya haifar da wani littafi kan tarihin ilimin kimiyya na tarihi na Jihar Mutapa.  Binciken nasa ya mayar da hankali ne kan al'ummomin jahohin tudun Zimbabuwe, al'adun yumbu na Afirka a cikin shekaru 2000 da suka gabata, da kuma rawar da kayan tarihi na zamani ke takawa.  Pikirayi ya kasance mai ziyartar Commonwealth Fellow kuma masani a Pitt Rivers Museum, Jami'ar Oxford a shekara ta 2000 inda ya karanta kayan Khami-period.  A ƙasar Zimbabwe ya yi aiki a matsayin Dean kuma Babban Malami a fannin ilimin kimiya na kayan tarihi a Jami'ar Jihar Midlands da kuma matsayin malami kuma babban malami a jami'ar Zimbabwe. A cikin shekarar 2009 Jami'ar Uppsala ta naɗa Pikirayi a matsayin Docent a Archaeology.

Yana aiki tare da National Museums and Monuments na Zimbabwe don kafa tsare-tsaren gudanarwa na wuraren tarihi na duniya a Zimbabwe, da kuma jagorantar masu binciken kayan tarihi na asali a Zimbabwe.  Binciken nasa ya mayar da hankali ne kan nazarin yumbu don bincikar al'ummomin noma a kudancin Afirka. *Al'adun [[Zimbabwe]]* (2001) babban rubutu ne da nazarin ƙarni na 2 na Zimbabwe, wanda ya haɗa bayanan archaeological, na baka da na kayan tarihi.

Pikiraryi yana cikin kwamitin zartarwa na Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE).  Ya zauna a kan a matsayin jagoran editoci na *Azania:* *Journal of African Archaeological Research*,  *African Archaeological Review*,   *Antiquity*  da *Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History*.  Yana cikin kwamitin ba da shawarwari na dandalin binciken kayayyakin tarihi na Shanghai.

## Ayyuka da girmamawa
An ba da labarin haɗin gwiwa da lambar yabo ta *Antiquity* a cikin shekarar 2008 don mafi kyawun labarin da aka wallafa a waccan shekarar.  A cikin shekarar 2014 an naɗa shi a Jami'ar Pretoria Humanities Researcher na Shekara.

## Zaɓaɓɓun wallafe-wallafe

*I. Pikirayi 2002. *The Zimbabwe culture: origins and decline of southern Zambezian states*. Rowman Altamira.
*Chirikure, S. & I. Pikirayi. 2008. Inside and outside the dry stone walls: revisiting the material culture of Great Zimbabwe. *Antiquity* 82: 1-18. 
*Pikirayi, I. 2013. Great Zimbabwe in Historical Archaeology: Reconceptualizing Decline, Abandonment, and Reoccupation of an Ancient Polity, A.D. 1450–1900. *Historical Archaeology* 47(1): 26–37. 
*Pikirayi, I. 2015. The future of archaeology in Africa. *Antiquity* 89 (345): 531–541. 
*Pikirayi, I. 2016. Great Zimbabwe as Power-Scape: How the past locates itself in contemporary southern Africa. In Beardsley, J. (eds). *Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa*. Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University Press, 87-115. 
*Schmidt, P. and Pikirayi, I. (eds). 2016. *Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa: Decolonizing Practice*. London and New York: Routledge.

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