The Archaeology of Benin
Author: Graham Connah
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
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Butabu
Author: James Morris
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1568984138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.
Heritage and Identity
Author: Marta Anico
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-11-26
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 113405338X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeritage and Identity explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representation of identities in contemporary societies, providing a comprehensive account of the diverse conceptions of heritage and identity across different continents and cultures. This collection of thought-provoking articles from experts in the field captures the richness and diversity of the interlinked themes of heritage and identity. Heritage is more than a simple legacy from the past, and incorporates all elements, past and present, that have the ability to represent particular identities in the public sphere. The editors introduce and discuss a wide range of interconnected topics, including multiculturalism and globalization, local and regional identity, urban heritage, difficult memories, conceptions of history, ethnic representations, repatriation, ownership, controversy, contestation, and ethics and social responsibility. The volume places empirical data within a theoretical and analytical framework and presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the representation of the past, invaluable for anyone interested in heritage and museum studies.
African Civilizations
Author: Graham Connah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-29
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521596909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition of African Civilizations, first published in 2001, re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa.
Historical Archaeology in Nigeria
Author: Kit W. Wesler
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780865436107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe case studies included in this collection range from the coast of Lagos State, through the Yoruba inland, once dominated by Oyo and Ibadan, to Benin City, seat of the great pre-colonial empire, north to Zungeru, seat of colonial administration under Lord Lugard, and the Jos Plateau, homeland of the Ron; and south again to the Niger Delta, where the Nigerian people first began their historic interaction with Portuguese explorers.
West African Journal of Archaeology
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 710
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-10-16
Total Pages: 819
ISBN-13: 9004376690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Two Thousand Years in Dendi, Northern Benin an international team examines a little-known part of the Niger River valley, West Africa, over the longue durée. This area, known as Dendi, has often been portrayed as the crossroads of major West African medieval empires but this understanding has been based on a small number of very patchy historical sources. Working from the ground up, from the archaeological sites, standing remains, oral traditions and craft industries of Dendi, Haour and her team offer the first in-depth account of the area. Contributors are: Paul Adderley, Mardjoua Barpougouni, Victor Brunfaut, Louis Champion, Annalisa Christie, Barbara Eichhorn, Anne Filippini, Dorian Fuller, Olivier Gosselain, David Kay, Nadia Khalaf, Nestor Labiyi, Raoul Laibi, Richard Lee, Veerle Linseele, Alexandre Livingstone Smith, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Didier N'Dah, Nicolas Nikis, Sam Nixon, Franck N’Po Takpara, Jean-François Pinet, Ronika Power, Caroline Robion-Brunner, Lucie Smolderen, Abubakar Sule Sani, Romuald Tchibozo, Jennifer Wexler, Wim Wouters.
Archaeology of Domestic Architecture and the Human Use of Space
Author: Sharon R Steadman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-16
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1315433966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space. It will be a useful synthesis for scholars and an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in archaeology and architecture.
Archaeology and Language I
Author: Roger Blench
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 1134828764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTackles new ground of looking at linguistics and archaeology together No other book covers this area Attractive to wide range of fields, i.e. from linguistics to primate biology
The Precolonial State in West Africa
Author: J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-09
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1139952536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Bénin, emerged in this period as one of the principal agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an exemplar of West African state formation. Drawing from eight years of ethnohistorical and archaeological fieldwork in the Republic of Bénin, the central thesis of this volume is that Dahomean kings used spatial tactics to project power and mitigate dissent across their territories. J. Cameron Monroe argues that these tactics enabled kings to economically exploit their subjects and to promote a sense of the historical and natural inevitability of royal power.
