Two Thousand Years In Dendi Northern Benin
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Two Thousand Years In Dendi Northern Benin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-10-16
Two Thousand Years In Dendi Northern Benin written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Social Science categories.
In a study of archaeological sites, standing remains, oral traditions and craft industries, Two Thousand Years in Dendi, Northern Benin offers the first account of a West African region often described as a crossroads of medieval empires.
African Cities Through Local Eyes
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Author : Giuseppe Faldi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-16
African Cities Through Local Eyes written by Giuseppe Faldi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-16 with Political Science categories.
This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning experiments. The international and balanced array of the collected contributions explore emerging research concepts for understanding urban and peri-urban processes in Africa, discuss bottom-up planning and design practices, and present inspirational and innovative co-design methods and participatory tools for steering such change through public spaces, sustainable services and infrastructures. The book is intended for students, researchers, decision-makers and practitioners engaged in planning and design for the built environment in Africa and the Global South at large.
Historical Dictionary Of Benin
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Author : Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-03-06
Historical Dictionary Of Benin written by Mathurin C. Houngnikpo and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-06 with History categories.
Historical Dictionary of Benin, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Markets And Exchanges In Pre Modern And Traditional Societies
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Author : Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2021-06-30
Markets And Exchanges In Pre Modern And Traditional Societies written by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-30 with History categories.
Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models imagined an all-encompassing centralized, bureaucratic economy that left practically no place for market transactions, as many surviving documents only described the activities of the royal palace and of huge institutions?mainly temples. Yet scattered references in the sources reveal that markets and traders were crucial actors in the economic life of ancient Egypt. In this perspective, this volume aims to discuss the role of markets, traders and economic interaction (not necessarily organized through markets) and the use of “money” (metals, valuable commodities) in pre-modern societies, based on archaeological, anthropological and historical evidence. Furthermore, it intends to integrate different perspectives about the social organization of transactions and exchanges and the different forms taken by markets, from meeting places where exchanges operated under ritualized procedures and conventions, to markets in which profit-seeking activities were marginal in respect with other practices that stressed, on the contrary, community collaboration. The book also deals with social forms of pre-modern exchanges in which trust and ethnic solidarity guaranteed the validity of commercial operations in the absence of formal codes of laws or accepted authorities over long distances (trade diasporas, guilds, etc.). Finally, the volume analyzes a critical aspect of small-scale trade and markets, such as the commercialization of agricultural household production and its impact on the peasant economic strategies. In all, the book covers a diversity of topics in which recent research in the fields of economic sociology, archaeology, anthropology, economics and history proves invaluable in order to analyze the role of Egyptian trade in a broader perspective, as well as to suggest new venues of comparative research, theoretical reflection and dialogue between Egyptology and social sciences. The book will also address pre-modern social organizations of trade activities in which trust and ethnic solidarity guaranteed the validity of commercial operations in the absence of formal codes of laws or accepted authorities over long distances, particularly trade diasporas, guilds, etc. This book will be the first in the new series from Oxbow, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies.
Divine Consumption
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Author : Stephen A. Dueppen
language : en
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Release Date : 2022-12-31
Divine Consumption written by Stephen A. Dueppen and has been published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-31 with History categories.
Kirikongo is an archaeological site composed of thirteen remarkably well-preserved discrete mounds occupied continually from the early first to the mid second millennium AD. It spans a dynamic era that saw the growth of large settlement communities and regional socio-political formations, development of economic specializations, intensification in interregional commercial networks, and the effects of the Black Death pandemic. The extraordinary preservation of architectural units, activity areas and industrial zones provides a unique opportunity to discern the cultural practices that created stratified mounds (tells) in this part of West Africa. Building from a new detailed zooarchaeological analysis and refinements in stratigraphic precision, this book argues that repeated ritual activity was a significant factor in the accumulation of stratified archaeological deposits. The book details consistencies in form and content of discrete loci containing animal bones, food remains, and broken and unbroken objects and suggests that these are the remnants of sequential ancestor shrines created when domestic spaces were converted to tombs or dedicated mortuary monuments were constructed. Continuities and transformations in ancestral rituals at Kirikongo inform on earlier West African ritual practices from the second millennium BC as well as political and social transformations at the site. More broadly, this case study provides new insights on anthropogenic mound (tell) formation processes, social zooarchaeology, material culture theory, historical ontology, and the analysis of ritual and religion in the archaeological record.
The Thousand Generation Covenant Dutch Reformed Covenant Theology And Group Identity In Colonial South Africa 1652 1814
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Author : Gerstner
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-12-06
The Thousand Generation Covenant Dutch Reformed Covenant Theology And Group Identity In Colonial South Africa 1652 1814 written by Gerstner and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-06 with History categories.
This study presents the religious factor in the development of a separatistic group identity among the forebears of the Afrikaners during the Dutch colonial period of South African history. Dutch Reformed covenant theology and baptism practice rooted in the thousand generation covenant theory helped to shape this self-understanding. It traces the basic developments of covenant theology in the Netherlands during the period and demonstrates how these concepts were conveyed to colonial South Africa. The dominant strain of covenantal thought treated the entire community as redeemed and called to be separate. It was presented through a variety of means through which virtually every colonist was exposed. This study offers a balanced historical approach to the role of theological concepts in the colonial roots of Afrikaner group identity. It answers traditional scholarship in the field which either directly identify the concepts behind the development of apartheid with Calvinist theology or, more recently, deny that the Reformed faith had any role in the development of apartheid ideology until the twentieth century.
African Voices On Slavery And The Slave Trade Volume 1 The Sources
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Author : Alice Bellagamba
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-13
African Voices On Slavery And The Slave Trade Volume 1 The Sources written by Alice Bellagamba 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 2013-05-13 with History categories.
Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and the slave trade.
Mobile Technologies In The Ancient Sahara And Beyond
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Author : C. N. Duckworth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Mobile Technologies In The Ancient Sahara And Beyond written by C. N. Duckworth 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 2020-09-03 with History categories.
Examines key technological innovations, knowledge transfer, connectivity and social meaning in the ancient and Medieval Sahara.
Africa From The Twelfth To The Sixteenth Century
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Author : Djibril Tamsir Niane
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1997
Africa From The Twelfth To The Sixteenth Century written by Djibril Tamsir Niane and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Africa categories.
Essouk Tadmekka
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Author : Sam Nixon
language : en
Publisher: Journal of African Archaeology
Release Date : 2017
Essouk Tadmekka written by Sam Nixon and has been published by Journal of African Archaeology this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with HISTORY categories.
Essouk-Tadmekkapresents the first archaeological exploration of one of the most important market towns on the trans-Saharan camel-caravan routes in the early Islamic period, supplying West African gold, slaves, and ivory to the Mediterranean world. Excavation of Essouk-Tadmekka's ruins - in Saharan West Africa - has enabled Sam Nixon and a team of scholars to better understand this town described by early Arabic geographers, therein providing insights into such wider questions as the origins of trans-Saharan trade, the commerce in gold, and the arrival of Islamic culture in West Africa. This window into the earliest period of trans-Saharan exchange includes illustration of some of the best-preserved ruins along the camel-caravan routes, the earliest-known Arabic writing in West Africa, and rare gold-working remains.Contributors are: Stephanie Black, Sophie Desrosiers, Laure Dussubieux, Thomas Fenn, Dorian Fuller, James Lankton, Kevin MacDonald, Paulo de Moraes Farias, Mary-Anne Murray, Sam Nixon, Thilo Rehren, Peter Robertshaw, Jane Sidell, and Benoit Suzanne.