African Historical Archaeologies

Editor:: Andrew M. Reid; Paul J. Lane
Format:: Hardcover

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Short description

Archaeologists from various African countries, Britain, and the US focus on unconventional, non-European historical sources to encourage the development of links between contemporary populations in Africa and their past, which they say conventional archaeology has too often overlooked.

Long description

This volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. The contributions, written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, present the underlying issues such as: the conflict and collaboration in the foundation of modern Africa; African trading communities maintaining their independence from Europe; and the impacts of the Atlantic slave trade. This represents the first consideration of historical archaeology over the African continent as a whole and therefore provides an important review for African archaeologists and historians. This seminal volume also explores Africa's place in global systems of thought and economic development for historical archaeologists and historians alike.

Product details

Publisher:: Springer
ISBN:: 9780306479953
Publication date:: March 2004
Length:: 235mm
Width:: 162mm
Thickness:: 27mm
Weight:: 717g
Pages:: 420
Illustrations:: Illustrated
Illustrated:: Illustrated

Review

Historical archaeology was created through studies of early Americana by James Deetz and several others. Its primary emphasis on written records of 'historical' periods when Europeans encountered Native people bears a distinctly elitist 'Eurocentric hegemony of reference' that Reid, Lane, and their collaborators challenge in this exceptional collection of essays. Highly recommended.
(Social and Behavioral Sciences, 41: 10)

This interesting and varied collection of essays on aspects of historical archaeology in Africa presents recent work all over the continent.
(Carmel Schrire; Journal of Anthropological Research, 60: 2004)

Reid & Lane attempt not only to give Africa a place within historical archaeology but also to redefine the subdiscipline in a way that enables African examples to be better understood. They seek to achieve this through a realisation of the temporality of all archaeology and of the material continuity between the past and the present. Thus the volume reinterprets histoircal archaeology variously, wisely avoiding a generalising definition of the subject matter.
(Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Antiquity)