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Author: James Denbow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1107040701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years.
Author: Christine Saidi
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1580463274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA radical reassessment of the importance of women in East-Central African society during the precolonial period.
Author: P. Wenzel Geissler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 085745093X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
Author: David Whitley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-28
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 135165439X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural models to understand symbolism and belief. How does an archaeologist interpret the past? Which theories are relevant, what kinds of data must be acquired, and how can interpretations be derived? One interpretive approach, developed in southern Africa in the 1980s, has been particularly successful even if still not widely known globally. With an expressed commitment to scientific method, it has resulted in deeper, well-tested understandings of belief, ritual, settlement patterns and social systems. This volume brings together a series of papers that demonstrate and illustrate this approach to archaeological interpretation, including contributions from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, in the process highlighting innovative methodological and substantive research that improves our understanding of the human past. Professional archaeological researchers would be the primary audience of this book. Because of its theoretical and methodological emphasis, it will also be relevant to method and theory courses and postgraduate students.
Author: Roger Blench
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-01-27
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 1135434158
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.
Author: Sherine Hafez
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-06-05
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0253007615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their interventions in current theory.
Author: R. Blench
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780759104662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa
Author: Gerry Wait
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-09-30
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1784919950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the results of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) project in the southwest region of the Republic of the Congo, undertaken to identify and evaluate cultural resources which might need further investigation. The study also reports on ethnographic surveys considering intangible cultural heritage.
Author: Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Swahili civilization was a fascinating and complex system_a group of advanced cultures with large economic networks, international maritime trade, and urban sophistication. This book documents the growth of Swahili civilization on the eastern coast of Africa, from 100 B.C. to the time of European colonialism in the sixteenth century. Using archaeological, anthropological, and historical information, Chapurukha M. Kusimba describes the origins of this unique and powerful culture, including its Islamic components, architecture, language, and trading systems. Incorporating the results of his own surveys and excavations, Kusimba provides us with a remarkable African-derived study of the rise and collapse of societies on the Swahili Coast.
Author: Dallen J. Timothy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-03-13
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1000834387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa examines the multiple and diverse manifestations of cultural heritage-based tourism in Africa from a regional, social science, and sustainability perspective. This book delivers a comprehensive treatise on the interdependent concepts of cultural heritage and tourism. Heritage is one of the most pervasive tourism assets worldwide and lies at the foundations of tourism in many localities, including Africa. However, despite its salience, there has not been a systematic examination of Africa’s heritage resources, markets, policies, practices, successes, and challenges in a tourism framework, despite the continent’s immense heritage value. This book reviews the different types of heritages that pervade the cultural environment of Africa and comprises its vast heritagescapes. It also examines the increasing potential for the growth of heritage tourism throughout the entire continent. The contributions in this volume delve into current thinking about space and place and their effects on heritage, mobilities, globalization, colonialism and indigeneity, conflict, identity and nation-building, connections with other regions through migration and the slave trade, and a greater emphasis on the ordinary heritage of Africa, which has long been ignored by tourism scholars and industry representatives. The chapters herein are authored by Africa specialists, most being from Africa, offering a truly African perspective. The chapters are conceptually rigorous and empirically rich with examples from all regions of the African continent. This unparalleled interdisciplinary glimpse at cultural heritage and tourism in Africa delivers strong value and is a vital resource for all students and researchers of tourism, cultural studies, heritage studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, and global studies.
