Archaeology And Ethnography Along The Loango Coast In The South West Of The Republic Of Congo
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Archaeology And Ethnography Along The Loango Coast In The South West Of The Republic Of Congo
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Author : Gerry Wait
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2018-09-30
Archaeology And Ethnography Along The Loango Coast In The South West Of The Republic Of Congo written by Gerry Wait and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-30 with Social Science categories.
This 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.
The Archaeology And Ethnography Of Central Africa
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Author : James Denbow
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014
The Archaeology And Ethnography Of Central Africa written by James Denbow and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
This 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.
The Archaeology And Ethnography Of Central Africa
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Author : James Raymond Denbow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Archaeology And Ethnography Of Central Africa written by James Raymond Denbow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Africa, Central categories.
The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3,000 years. The archaeological data presented in this volume comes from a pivotal area through which, as linguistic and historical reconstructions have long indicated, Bantu-speaking peoples expanded before reaching eastern and southern Africa. Despite its historical importance, the prehistory of the Atlantic coastal regions of west-central Africa has until now remained almost unknown. James Denbow offers an imaginative approach to this subject, integrating the scientific side of fieldwork with the interplay of history, ethnography, politics, economics, and personalities. The resulting 'anthropology of archaeology' highlights the connections between past and present, change and modernity, in one of the most inaccessible and poorly known regions of west-central and southern Africa.
Kongo Power And Majesty
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Author : Alisa LaGamma
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2015-09-16
Kongo Power And Majesty written by Alisa LaGamma and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-16 with Art categories.
A fascinating account of the effects of turbulent history on one of Africa’s most storied kingdoms, Kongo: Power and Majesty presents over 170 works of art from the Kingdom of Kongo (an area that includes present-day Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola). The book covers 400 years of Kongolese culture, from the fifteenth century, when Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants and missionaries brought Christianity to the region, to the nineteenth, when engagement with Europe had turned to colonial incursion and the kingdom dissolved under the pressures of displacement, civil war, and the devastation of the slave trade. The works of art—which range from depictions of European iconography rendered in powerful, indigenous forms to fearsome minkondi, or power figures—serve as an assertion of enduring majesty in the face of upheaval, and richly illustrate the book’s powerful thesis.
Theory In Social And Cultural Anthropology
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Author : R. Jon McGee
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2013-08-28
Theory In Social And Cultural Anthropology written by R. Jon McGee and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-28 with Social Science categories.
Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded so greatly that no single individual can command all of it. Consequently, both advanced students and professionals may be confronted with theoretical positions and names of theorists with whom they are only partially familiar, if they have heard of them at all. Students, in particular, are likely to turn to the web to find quick background information on theorists and theories. However, most web-based information is inaccurate and/or lacks depth. Students and professionals need a source to provide a quick overview of a particular theory and theorist with just the basics—the "who, what, where, how, and why," if you will. In response, SAGE Reference plans to publish the two-volume Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Features & Benefits: Two volumes containing approximately 335 signed entries provide users with the most authoritative and thorough reference resource available on anthropology theory, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage. To ease navigation between and among related entries, a Reader's Guide groups entries thematically and each entry is followed by Cross-References. In the electronic version, the Reader's Guide combines with the Cross-References and a detailed Index to provide robust search-and-browse capabilities. An appendix with a Chronology of Anthropology Theory allows students to easily chart directions and trends in thought and theory from early times to the present. Suggestions for Further Reading at the end of each entry and a Master Bibliography at the end guide readers to sources for more detailed research and discussion.
Une Arch Ologie Des Provinces Septentrionales Du Royaume Kongo
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Author : Bernard Clist
language : fr
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2018-09-11
Une Arch Ologie Des Provinces Septentrionales Du Royaume Kongo written by Bernard Clist and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Social Science categories.
This book presents in detail the results of archaeological research carried out by the KongoKing project in the former northern provinces of the Kongo Kingdom, currently located in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Grey Undercurrent
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Author : Felix Schürmann
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-04-03
The Grey Undercurrent written by Felix Schürmann and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-03 with History categories.
By extending their voyages to all oceans from the 1760s onward, whaling vessels from North America and Europe spanned a novel net of hunting grounds, maritime routes, supply posts, and transport chains across the globe. For obtaining provisions, cutting firewood, recruiting additional men, and transshipping whale products, these highly mobile hunters regularly frequented coastal places and islands along their routes, which were largely determined by the migratory movements of their prey. American-style pelagic whaling thus constituted a significant, though often overlooked factor in connecting people and places between distant world regions during the long nineteenth century. Focusing on Africa, this book investigates side-effects resulting from stopovers by whalers for littoral societies on the economic, social, political, and cultural level. For this purpose it draws on eight local case studies, four from Africa’s west coast and four from its east coast. In the overall picture, the book shows a broad range of effects and side-effects of different forms and strengths, which it figures as a "grey undercurrent" of global history.
The Kongo Kingdom
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Author : Koen Bostoen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-15
The Kongo Kingdom written by Koen Bostoen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-15 with Art categories.
A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
Tradition Archaeological Heritage Protection And Communities In The Limpopo Province Of South Africa
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Author : Innocent Pikirayi
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2011
Tradition Archaeological Heritage Protection And Communities In The Limpopo Province Of South Africa written by Innocent Pikirayi and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
This book captures community voices in matters relating to their relationship with specific archaeological heritage sites and landscapes in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Focusing on the stonewalled archaeological heritage associated with Venda speakers and the reburial in 2008 of human remains excavated by the University of Pretoria from the cultural landscape of Mapungubwe, the book attempts to establish why archaeology and cultural heritage conservation struggle for relevance in South Africa today. In articulating the relevance of archaeology in South Africa in particular and southern Africa in general and in the context of public or community-based archaeology, the book explores how communities and the public interact, use and negotiate with their pasts. The research critiques the notion of archaeological heritage conservation and attempts to understand cultural heritage conservation from the perspectives of descendant communities. The book further exposes the conflict between cultural heritage protection efforts and modern development and questions the role of such efforts, given the challenges of unemployment, social inequality and poverty in democratic South Africa. The book is also about community engagement in archaeology, specifically in matters relating to access to cultural heritage resources. This study suggests that there is scope for community archaeology to take centre stage and drive future directions in archaeology if archaeologists change their approach in dealing with communities. Researchers are challenged in this study to rethink the notion of heritage, to debate the objectives behind cultural heritage conservation and to critically reexamine the relevance of archaeology today. This study suggests that the conflicting positions between heritage managers, archaeologists and descendant communities may be resolved through sharing of 'tradition' with the 'present'.
From Lapita To The Hiri
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Author : Robert John Skelly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
From Lapita To The Hiri written by Robert John Skelly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
The ethnographically-described hiri has long raised questions concerning the history and origins of social interactions along the south coast of Papua New Guinea. A fundamental problem, however, has been a paucity of research chronologically enchaining material traces of the hiri that we have come to know from ethnohistorical sources with the material remains from more ancient periods of time. Such secure chronological seriation is of particular interest in the Gulf of Papua where data are limited. It is also of particular relevance to this region, as here a re-evaluation of the age of previously excavated sites and archaeological materials is overdue. Previous archaeological research has demonstrated that for the past two millennia, people in the Gulf of Papua have been exchanging pottery, and/or ideas about making pottery, along some 500 km of coastline, extending from at least as far east as present-day Port Moresby westward to the Kikori River. In addition, previous research had identified a lull in the arrival of pottery into the Kikori River region between c. 950-500 cal BP. Archaeological investigations presented here test the hypothesis that social and cultural interactions contracted eastward c. 950 cal BP and then expanded again after 500 cal BP when new relationships were established that led ultimately to the ethnographically-described hiri. Connecting the archaeology with the ethnography requires the identification of an unbroken chronological sequence of archaeological data. To achieve this, I have followed two archaeological site surveying strategies. One traces origin migration stories as retold in local oral traditions, in the expectation that known ancestral village sites would contain evidence of 'recent' occupation dating to the past few hundred years. In the other, old beach lines left inland by rapidly prograding coastlines are investigated with the aim of identifying occupation sites located in more ancient beach-fronting locations. Excavations at 13 sites provide a secure AMS radiocarbon chronology for this, the Kouri lowlands in the mid-section of the Gulf of Papua. In doing so, a succession of settlements and ceramic conventions are revealed, beginning with the arrival of Lapita peoples along the Kouri coastline c. 2600 cal BP to ethnographic times. Comparing and contrasting cultural trends on the Kouri lowlands with those from other parts of the south coast of PNG then enables me to contextualise past social relationships at multiple and nested geographical scales, connecting the mid-section of the Gulf of Papua with other parts of the south coast. The journey from Lapita to the hiri is shown to be a human story of long-standing relationships dependant on cultural interactions that at times grew in complexity and diversity along truncated trajectories of expansion and contraction, eventually crossing cultural and linguistic boundaries in an inter-connected sea and land domain that in time came to connect the descendants of incoming Austronesian-speaking Lapita peoples with local populations of the Gulf of Papua by way of the hiri.