Ethnic ambiguity and the African past : materiality, history, and the shaping of cultural identities / [edited by] François G. Richard, Kevin C. MacDonald.

Other author Richard, François G., 1976- editor.
Other author MacDonald, Kevin C. editor.
Format Book
PublicationWalnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2014.
Descriptionpages cm.
Subjects

SeriesPublications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. ^A758524
Contents From invention to ambiguity : the persistence of ethnicity in Africa / François G. Richard and Kevin C. MacDonald -- Shapen signs : pottery techniques, indexicality, and ethnic identity in the Saalum, Senegambia (c. 1700-1950) / Cameron Gokee -- "The very embodiment of the black peasant?" : archaeology, history, and the making of the Seereer of Siin (senegal) / François G. Richard -- "A chacun son Bambara," encore une fois : history, archaeology and Bamana origins / Kevin C. MacDonald -- The uses of the past : indigenous ethnography, archaeology and ethnicity in Nigeria / Roger Blench -- What was the Wandala State and who are the Wandala? / Scott MacEachern -- Who's who? The case of the Luba / Pierre de Maret and Alexandre Livingstone Smith -- Political and theoretical problems for the archaeological identification of pre-colonial Twa, Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda / John Giblin -- Ethnicity, archaeological ceramics and changing paradigms in East African archaeology / Paul J. Lane -- Ethnic ambiguity : a cultural evolutionary perspective / Stephen J. Shennan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2014030350
ISBN9781629580074 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1629580074 (hardback : alk. paper)

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