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Ceramic traditions and technical borrowings in the Senegal Valley
Keramikherstellung - Tradition - Ethnografie - Senegal.
Ceramics and Society
Pottery is the most ubiquitous find in most historical archaeological excavations and serves as the basis for much research in the discipline. But it is not only its frequency that makes it a prime dataset for such research, it is also that pottery embeds many dimensions of the human experience, ranging from the purely technical to the eminently symbolic. The aim of this book is to provide a cutting-edge theoretical and methodological framework, as well as a practical guide, for archaeologists, students and researchers to study ceramic assemblages. As opposed to the conventional typological approach, which focuses on vessel shape and assumed function with the main goal of establishing a chro...
Ethnic Ambiguity and the African Past
Authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging, and difference in ancient Africa were made and unmade in their intersection with other salient domains of social experience: states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and power.
Learning Among Neanderthals and Palaeolithic Modern Humans
This book is based on the research performed for the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Project. The central issue of the project is the investigation of possible differences between the two populations in cognitive ability for learning. The project aims to evaluate a unique working hypothesis, coined as the learning hypothesis, which postulates that differences in learning eventually resulted in the replacement of those populations. The book deals with relevant archaeological records to understand the learning behaviours of Neanderthals and modern humans. Learning behaviours are conditioned by numerous factors including not only cognitive ability but also cultural traditions, soci...
Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001
This book has papers in English and papers in French Section 2 Archaeometry Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001: Colloque/Symposium 2.1
Ressources vivrières et choix alimentaires dans le bassin du lac Tchad
Ce XIe colloque du réseau de recherche pluridisciplinaire Méga-Tchad traite du thème de l’alimentation dans une région très contrastée, tant du point de vue des sociétés qui la composent que des contextes écologiques, économiques et politiques. Au-delà de la prise en compte des besoins vitaux des hommes, cet ouvrage considère à la fois la demande spécifique des populations – goûts, choix et stratégies de subsistance –, les systèmes de productions vivrières et les environnements physiques et humains. Les manières de se nourrir et les relations sociales qui se tissent autour de la nourriture et du repas sont également abordées. La persistance d’un code culinaire très ancien est démontrée, alors même que l’on assiste à une grande diversification et à une évolution importante de la nature des produits utilisés. Les chercheurs, les étudiants, mais aussi les décideurs et les acteurs du développement trouveront ici une source d’informations récentes et rigoureuses, dans un cadre pluridisciplinaire posant les nouvelles problématiques relatives à la question de l’alimentation en Afrique.
Singing with the Dogon Prophet
In the Dogon funeral proceedings, a major song cycle called baja ni is performed in a session of at least seven hours. The texts of the chants are attributed to a legendary figure called Abirɛ, who as a blind singer in the nineteenth century roamed the heartland of the Dogon. The baja ni songs have escaped scholarly attention thus far. Singing with the Dogon Prophet by Walter E.A. van Beek, Oumarou S. Ongoiba, and Atimε D. Saye provides their first publication in English as well as an analysis of these songs. These texts deal with the relations between man and woman, man’s ambivalent dependency on the otherworld, and with life and death; the whole night performance is one of the high points of the funeral. Additionally, Abirɛ is a prophet, and during his life has uttered a great number of prophecies on a wide range of topics, from local issues to the relation of the Dogon with the Fulbe herdsmen, and from the arrival of the colonials to ecological transformation. This book examines how these prophecies with these songs offer an inside view of the way the Dogon construct the present in a continuous dialogue with their past and their projected future.
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Le geste technique
Au sommaire notamment : Geste, mouvement, action : analyse lexicale et sémantique des concepts ; Bernstein et le geste technique ; L'art du violon, aperçu historique d'une pratique raisonnée ; Gestes et technologie : la compensation des incapacités motrices ; L'utilisation des ciseaux chez l'enfant de 5 à 9 ans : développement d'une asymétrie fonctionnelle bimanuelle...
