Materializing colonial encounters : archaeologies of African experience /

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Other Authors: Richard, François G., 1976- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Materializing Colonial pasts: African archaeological perspectives... / François G. Richard
  • Part 1: Circulations: Scale, Value, Entanglement
  • Chapter 2: Small change : Cowries, coins, and the currency transition in the Northern Territories of colonial Ghana / Natalie Swanepoel
  • Chapter 3: Circulations through worlds apart: Georgian and Victorian England in an African mirror / Ann B. Stahl
  • Part 2: Mediations: Things, Texts, Oral Traditions
  • Chapter 4: Historical archaeology, language, and storytelling at the Cape of Good Hope and elsewhere / Yvonne Brink
  • Chapter 5: The signs of mission: Rethinking archaeologies of representation / Zoe Crossland
  • Part 3: Memory: Imagining and Remembering Colonial Worlds
  • Chapter 6: Biographies of practice and the negotiation of Swahili at nineteenth-century Vumba / Stephanie Wynne-Jones
  • Chapter 7: Margins of difference: A study of the collapse and restoration of the Kekana chiefdom under the rule of chief Mugombane / Amanda Esterhuysen
  • Part 4: Power: Politics, Capitalism, and the Making of Colonial Worlds
  • Chapter 8: The 'dirty' material and symbolic work of 'state' building in Madagascar: From indigenous state-crafting to external colonial imposition and indigenous insurrection / Susan Kus and Victor Raharijaona
  • Chapter 9: The politics of absence: The longue durée of state-peasant interactions in the Siin (Senegal), 1850s-1930s / François G. Richard
  • Chapter 10: Modernity's rush: time, space and race in the shadows of the diamond fields / Lindsay Weiss
  • Part 5: Discussion
  • Chapter 11: On Materializing Colonial Encounters: A commentary / Ibrahima Thiaw
  • Chapter 12: African archaeologies in transition: Hybrid knowledges of colonial pasts / Michael Rowland
  • Index.