Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa : archaeological perspectives

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Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa : archaeological perspectives

edited by J. Cameron Monroe, Akinwumi Ogundiran

Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Summary: "This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a briad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature and structures of African political and social relations changed across regions in this period. This is only the second volume in a decade to focus on the archeology of this period in West Africa, and the first volume in sub-Saharan Africanist archeology to be focused in the recent past in oue sub-region of the continent from a coherent methodological and theoretical standpoint"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. The essays examine how social and political transformations occurred at the regional level by exploring regional economic networks, population shifts, cultural values and ideologies. The book demonstrates the importance of anthropological insights not only to the broad political history of West Africa, but also to an understanding of political culture as a form of meaningful social practice.

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  • Forward Merrick Posnansky
  • 1. Introduction: the politics of landscape in Atlantic West Africa J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran
  • Part I. Fragmented Landscapes: 2. Atlantic impacts on inland Senegambia: French penetration and African initiatives in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gajaaga and Bundu (Upper Senegal River) Ibrahima Thiaw
  • 3. Political transformations and cultural landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic era: an alternative view from the Siin (Senegal)? Francois Richard
  • 4. The Eguafo polity: between the traders and raiders Sam Spiers
  • 5. From the shadow of an Atlantic citadel: an archaeology of the Huedan countryside Neil L. Norman
  • Part II. State-Generated Landscapes: 6. Segou, slavery, and sifinso Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara
  • 7. Building the state in Dahomey: power and landscape on the Bight of Benin J. Cameron Monroe
  • 8. The formation of an Oyo imperial colonial enclave during the Atlantic Age Akinwumi Ogundiran
  • Part III. Internal Frontier Landscapes: 9. The rise of the Bassar Chiefdom in the context of Africa's internal frontier Philip de Barros
  • 10. Fortified towns of the Koinadugu Plateau: northern Sierra Leone in the pre-Atlantic and Atlantic worlds Christopher R. DeCorse
  • 11. Rethinking the Mandara political landscape: cultural developments, climate, and an entry into history in the second millennium AD Scott MacEachern
  • Part IV. Conclusion: 12. The local and the global: historiographical reflections on West Africa and the Atlantic Age Ray A. Kea.

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