Transformations in Africa : essays on Africa's later past
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Transformations in Africa : essays on Africa's later past
Leicester University Press, 1998
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Note
"Ten essays, seven of which are rev. papers of a conference held in the Humanities Research Centre, at the Australian National University, Canberra, in June 1995"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays presented in this volume serve as reminders of the dynamic character of Africa's later past. It offers a series of insights into major elements of change over the past few thousand years and some indication of the interplay of change and continuity during that period. The capacity for adaption shown by hunter-gatherers, the shift to food production, the profound impact of cattle pastoralism, the development of cultural complexity, the growth of precolonial African urbanism, the fundamental role of climactic change, the increasing level of interaction with the outside world, the impact of European expansion are all provided as examples of the many transformations that took place during the later prehistoric and early hisotrical period in Africa.
Table of Contents
- Static image - dynamic reality, Graham Connah
- African hunter-gatherers - history and the politics of ethnicity, Richard B. Lee, Robert K. Hitchcock
- the ecology of food production in West Africa, Joanna Casey
- before the Empire of Ghana - pastoralism and the origins of cultural complexity in the Sahel, K.C. MacDonald
- African urbanism - scale, mobility and transformation, Roland Fletcher
- climate and history in West Africa, George E. Brooks
- iron in Africa - metal from nowhere, James Woodhouse
- pre-colonial trading systems of the East African interior, Henry Muturo
- city states of the East African coast and their maritime contacts, George Abungu
- the Europeans in West Africa - culture contact, continuity and change, Christopher R. DeCorse.
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