West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade : archaeological perspectives / / edited by Christopher DeCorse

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 966/.01
• Soggetto topico: Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa, West; Slave trade - Africa, West
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, West Antiquities
• Persona (resp. second.): DeCorseChristopher R.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1.Introduction / Christopher R. DeCorse -- 2.Tools for Understanding Transformation and Continuity in Senegambian Society: 1500--1900 / I. Thiaw -- 3.Historical Process and the Impact of the Atlantic Trade on Banda, Ghana, c. 1800--1920 / Ann Brower Stahl -- 4.The Effect of the Slave Trade on the Bassar Ironworking Society, Togo / Philip Lynton de Barros -- 5.Change and Continuity in Coastal Benin / Kenneth G. Kelly -- 6.Kanem-Borno: A Brief Summary of the History and Archaeology of an Empire of the Central bilad al-sudan / Detlef Gronenborn -- 7.State Formation and Enslavement in the Southern Lake Chad Basin / Scott MacEachern -- 8.500 Years in the Cameroons: Making Sense of the Archaeological Record / Augustin F. C. Holl -- 9.An Americanist Perspective on African Archaeology: Toward an Archaeology of the Black Atlantic / Theresa A. Singleton.
• Sommario/riassunto: "West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade surveys archaeological data from Senegal to the Cameroon. It focuses on the past 500 years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social systems, as well as the consequences of European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trade, and the expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. The geographical and topical scope of this volume draws together archaeological syntheses of various parts of West Africa and is an important resource for West Africanists and all researchers interested in the indigenous response to European expansion, as well as for those examining African continuities in the Americas."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade
• ISBN: 1-4742-9106-6; 1-4742-9105-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798662003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bloomsbury academic collections. . -History of the transatlantic slave trade.