Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78179-040-3
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1144 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology

The land of Bambuk was an important source of gold for trans-Saharan trade and the imperial polities of Ghana and Mali, yet the non-centralized societies of this region remain largely peripheral in the historiography of West Africa. Drawing on recent archaeological research at the site of Diouboye in eastern Senegal, this book explores social life in medieval Bambuk from the standpoint of a village occupied over several centuries (1000-1400 CE). Material and spatial data from excavations, together with those from survey of the middle Falemme River basin, enable a critical look at how interactions across multiple scales-among neighboring houses, between cultural and craft traditions, and within a much broader political economy-created both possibilities for and challenges to the ongoing production of a local community at Diouboye. By moving back and forth across these scales centered on a single village, Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk outlines a relational archaeology of community applicable to the study of seemingly peripheral societies and processes of pre-modern globalization across Africa and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gokee

Gokee, Cameron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PreliminariesAcknowledgementsChapter 1Village Communities: Rethinking Power and Periphery Chapter 2A Medieval Mosaic Chapter 3In Search of Bambuk Chapter 4Everyday Life in the Land of Gold Chapter 5Materializing Interaction: Architecture and Artifacts Chapter 6Spaces of Interaction: Houses and Quarters Chapter 7Depositional Histories I: The East Quarter Chapter 8Depositional Histories II: The West Quarter and Site Chronology Chapter 9Landscape and Interaction along the Falemme River Chapter 10Assembling the Medieval VillageChapter 11Globalized Communities: Perspectives from Prehistor

Über Autor(innen)

Gokee, Cameron
Cameron Gokee received his doctorate in anthropological archaeology from the University of Michigan. He currently directs fieldwork focusing on the spatial production of social identity among Bedik communities in southeastern Senegal vis-à-vis the structural violence of the Atlantic slave trade and explores Mande political landscapes along the Upper Niger River of eastern Guinea. Dr. Gokee also co-directs the Undocumented Migration Project field school on the contemporary archaeology of space and structural violence in the US-Mexico borderlands.