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Ethnic ambiguity and the African past : materiality, history, and the shaping of cultural identities

Title
Ethnic ambiguity and the African past : materiality, history, and the shaping of cultural identities / edited by François G. Richard, Kevin C. MacDonald.
Publication
Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Richard, François G., 1976-
  • MacDonald, Kevin C.
Description
296 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Series Statement
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Uniform Title
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Subject
  • Ethnoarchaeology > Africa
  • Africans > Ethnic identity > History
  • Indigenous peoples > Material culture > Africa
  • Africa > Civilization
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 16-531
ISBN
  • 9781629580074
  • 1629580074
  • 9781629580098 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781629580104 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2014030350
  • 40025045789
OCLC
881027364
Title
Ethnic ambiguity and the African past : materiality, history, and the shaping of cultural identities / edited by François G. Richard, Kevin C. MacDonald.
Publisher
Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Richard, François G., 1976- editor.
MacDonald, Kevin C., editor.
Other Standard Identifier
40025045789
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-531
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