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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464956503321

Autore

González Ruibal Alfredo

Titolo

Archaeology of resistance : materiality and time in an African borderland / / Alfredo González-Ruibal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4422-3091-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Archaeology in Society

Disciplina

963.3

Soggetti

Indigenous peoples - Ethiopia - Politics and government

Government, Resistance to - Ethiopia

Borderlands - Africa, East

Ethnoarchaeology - Africa, East

Berta (African people)

Gumuz (African people)6

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Outline of the Book; Ch01. Time and Materiality; Ch02. Ecology of a Shatter Zone; Ch03. Direct Action against the State: The Gumuz; Ch04. Between Domination and Resistance: The Bertha; Ch05. Of Mimicry and Mao; Epilogue; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland studies the tactics of resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the borderland between Sudan and Ethiopia.The main objective of the work is to understand the diverse forms of resistance that characterizes the borderland groups, with an emphasis on two essentially archaeological themes, materiality and time, by combining archaeological, political and social theory, ethnographic methods and historical data to examine different processes of resista