Kings, Commoners and Cattle at Zimbabwe Tradition Sites
Author: Carolyn R. Thorp
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
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Cattle and People
Author: Catarina Ginja
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Published: 2022-05-01
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1948488744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fields working on human cattle interactions over time. The contributions in this volume reflect well the breadth of work being undertaken on the ancient relationship between humans and cattle across the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, and from the late Pleistocene to postmedieval period. Almost all involve the study of archaeological cattle remains and use different zooarchaeological methods, but the combination of these approaches with that of ethnography, isotopes and genetics is also featured. Author Interview
The Zimbabwe Culture
Author: Innocent Pikirayi
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2002-07-15
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0585386498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering a unique and original perspective on the rise and fall of indigenous states of southern Zambezia, The Zimbabwe Culture analyzes the long contentious history of the remains of the remarkable cyclopean masonry, ranging from mighty capitals of traditional kings to humble farmsteads. Forming a cornerstone of the geographical lore of Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, debate on the origins, development, and collapse of the Zimbabwe culture has never ceased, and with increasing archaeological research over the twentieth century, has become more complex. Thoroughly examining the growth and decline of pre-colonial states on the entire Zimbabwean Plateau and southern Zambezia, Dr. Pikirayi has contributed tremendously towards the archaeological understanding of this extraordinary culture. The Zimbabwe Culture is essential reading for all students and avocationalists of African archaeology, history, and culture.
Archives, Objects, Places and Landscapes
Author: Manyanga, Munyaradzi
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Published: 2017-04-11
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9956764191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDissatisfaction has matured in Africa and elsewhere around the fact that often, the dominant frameworks for interpreting the continent's past are not rooted on the continent's value system and philosophy. This creates knowledge that does not make sense especially to local communities. The big question therefore is can Africans develop theories that can contribute towards the interpretation of the African past, using their own experiences? Framed within a concept revision substrate, the collection of papers in this thought provoking volume argues for concept revision as a step towards decolonizing knowledge in the post-colony. The various papers powerfully expose that 'cleansed' knowledge is not only locally relevant: it is also locally accessible and globally understandable.
The Origins and Development of African Livestock
Author: Roger Blench
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-01-27
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 1135434166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins of African livestock, placing Africa as one of the world centres for animal domestication. With sections on archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography, this collection contains over twenty contributions from the field's foremost experts and provides fully illustrated, never before published data, and extensive bibliographies.
Memory and Cultural Landscape at the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe
Author: Ashton Sinamai
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-10
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1351022008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on a forgotten place—the Khami World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. It examines how professionally ascribed values and conservation priorities affect the cultural landscape when there is a disjuncture between local community and national interests, and explores the epistemic violence that often accompanied colonial heritage management and archaeology in southern Africa. The central premise is that the history of the modern Zimbabwe nation, in terms of what is officially remembered and celebrated, inevitably determines how that past is managed. It is about how places are experienced and remembered through narratives and how the loss of this heritage memory may mark the un-inheriting of place. Memory and Cultural Landscape at the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe is informed by the author’s experience of living near and working at Great Zimbabwe and Khami as an archaeologist, and uses archives and traditional narratives to build a biography for this lost cultural landscape. Whereas Great Zimbabwe is a resource for the state’s contentious narrative of unity, and a tool for cultural activism among communities whose cultural rights are denied through the nationalisation and globalisation heritage, at Khami, which has lost its historical gravity, there is only silence. Researchers and students of cultural heritage will find this book a much-needed case study on heritage, identity, community and landscape from an African perspective.
Great Zimbabwe
Author: Shadreck Chirikure
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1000260887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe. It combines archaeological knowledge, including recent material from the author’s excavations, with native concepts and philosophies. Working from a large data set has made it possible, for the first time, to develop an archaeology of Great Zimbabwe that is informed by finds and observations from the entire site and wider landscape. In so doing, the book strongly contributes towards decolonising African and world archaeology. Written in an accessible manner, the book is aimed at undergraduate students, graduate students, and practicing archaeologists both in Africa and across the globe. The book will also make contributions to the broader field such as African Studies, African History, and World Archaeology through its emphasis on developing synergies between local ways of knowing and the archaeology.
The Archaeology of Southern Africa
Author: Peter Mitchell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-06-06
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 100932473X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than 3 million years.
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.
African Historical Archaeologies
Author: Andrew M. Reid
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-10-28
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1441988637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. Written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, this book represents the first consideration of historical archaeology over the African continent as a whole. This seminal volume also explores Africa's place in global systems of thought and economic development and is of interest to historical archaeologists and historians.
