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Precolonial African Material Culture
Precolonial African Material Culture presents a comprehensive challenge to the long-held myth of the inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in sub-Saharan Africa. It revisits the history of early and late precolonial technology in Africa and explores its impacts on the wider world.
Precolonial African Material Culture
The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious myth in the scholarly and popular imagination. Due to the emergence of the field of African studies and the upsurge in historical and archaeological research, in recent decades the stridency of this myth has weakened, and the overtly racist content of arguments mustered in its defense have tended to disappear. But more important are transformations in social, political, and cultural consciousness, which have worked to reshape conceptualizations of African peoples, their histories, and their cultures. Precolonial African Material Culture offers a thorough challenge to the myth of technological backwardness. V. Tarikhu Farrar revisits the early technology of sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by recent research and reconsiders long-possessed primary historical sources. He then explores the ways that indigenous African technologies have influenced the world beyond the African continent.
Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity
This book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of chapters, the book focuses on different time-periods, geographic regions and cultural and biological aspects of human diversity across the continent. Each chapter summarises current knowledge with perspectives from a varied set of international researchers from diverse areas of expertise. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars interested in evolutionary history and human diversity in Africa. Contributors are Shaun Aron, Ananyo Choudhury, Bernard Clist, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Rosa Fregel, Jackson S. Kimambo, Faye Lander , Marlize Lombard, Fidelis T. Masao, Ezekia Mtetwa, Gilbert Pwiti, Michèle Ramsay, Thembi Russell, Carina Schlebusch, Dhriti Sengupta, Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi, Mário Vicente.
Reframing Africa?
This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in discussions about the future of the African moving image. Reframing Africa? makes a plea for the recognition, preservation and repatriation of the African moving image archive, advancing ideas about how it speaks to contemporary Africans, possessed of the power to elucidate their lived experiences and to reorientate perceptions of the past, present and future. On the basis of this wide-ranging appreciation of the archive, the book charts a way forward for African-inflected film studies as well as other programmes in the humanities and social sciences. Reframing Africa? will appeal to scholars, academics and practitioners across the continent and beyond
Heroines in History
Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces moves beyond stories of individual heroines, taking a thematic, synthesising and global in scope approach to challenge previous understandings of heroines in history. Responding to Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, Katie Pickles explores the idea of a transcultural heroine archetype that recurs through time. Each chapter addresses an archetypal theme important for heroines in history. The volume offers a new consideration of the often-awkward position of women in history and embeds heroines in the context of their times, as well as interpreting and analysing how their stories are told, re-told and represented at different moments. To do so ...
Europejczycy i Afrykanie. Wzajemne odkrycia i pierwsze kontakty
Pragnę zbadać, jak Europejczycy i Afrykanie, ludzie tak różnych kultur, zareagowali na owo nieoczekiwane spotkanie. Jakich doznawali uczuć, czego się bali, co budziło ich podziw, zdziwienie i zaciekawienie? Czym się oburzali? Dlaczego podejmowali ryzyko, by lepiej poznać stronę przeciwną? Jak ze sobą walczyli, jak i dlaczego ginęli? Jak nawiązali pierwsze wzajemne kontakty, jak się porozumiewali i organizowali spotkania? Jak wybierali miejsca takich spotkań? Jak i w jakich dziedzinach rozpoczęli współpracę? Co Europejczycy sądzili o Afrykanach, a co Afrykanie o Europejczykach? Kiedy Europejczycy zorientowali się, że Afrykanie różnią się między sobą, i co uznali za podstawę tych różnic? I podobnie, kiedy do takich wniosków dotyczących Europejczyków doszli Afrykanie? Mam nadzieję, że odpowiedzi na te i inne pytania powstające w czasie analizy źródeł pozwolą na określenie, jakie zmiany w mentalności ludzi z obu stron i w ich światopoglądzie spowodowało spotkanie się Europejczyków z Afrykanami. Fragment wstępu
Dynasties
A vibrant and broad-ranging study of dynastic power in the late medieval and early modern world.
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African Material Culture
"This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -- Archaeological Review "... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -- Come-All-Ye Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.
