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The soapstone birds of Great Zimbabwe : archaeological heritage, religion and politics in postcolonial Zimbabwe and the return of cultural property
Häftad, 2011
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At least eight soapstone carvings of birds furnished a shrine, Great Zimbabwe, in the 19th century. This large stonewalled settlement, once a political and urban centre, had been much reduced for four centuries, although the shrine continued to operate as local traditions dictated. The Zimbabwe …
Roman and native : colonialism and the archaeology of rural water management in the Maghreb
Häftad, 2009
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This thesis considers the archaeology of rural water management in the Maghrcb in relation to modern colonialism. An attempt is made to recover the attitudes to people and landscape expressed in the archaeological literature, and to analyse them in a colonial/postcolonial context. The primary focus …
Preserving Impermanence
Häftad, 2009
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This thesis is about the heritage in Vientiane. In an attempt to go beyond a more traditional descriptive approach, the study aims at bringing forward a discussion about the definition, or rather the multiplicity of definitions, of the concept of heritage as such. The unavoidabe tension emanating …
The urban mind : cultural and environmental dynamics
Av Paul J.J. Sinclair, Gullög Nordquist m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
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Interconnections : glass beads and trade in southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean - 7th to 16th centuries AD
Av Marilee Wood
Häftad, 2011
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Glass beads comprise the most frequently found evidence of trade between southern Africa and the greater Indian Ocean between the 7th and 16th centuries AD. In this study beads recovered from southern African archaeological sites are organized into series, based on morphology and chemical …
The past ahead : language, culture, and identity in the Neotropics
Häftad, 2012
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In Andean cognition the embodiment of the past is different from many other ways to spatially relate the position of the body to time. This epistemology is for instance expressed in the Quechua word ñawpa, which signifies that the past is “in front of us;” it is known and can be seen. Seeing and …
Archaeological and historical reconstructions of the foraging and farming communities of the Lower Zambezi : from the mid-Holocene to the second Millennium AD
Häftad, 2015
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New archaeological surveys and excavations combined with historical and ethnographic sources, to construct a long term settlement history and historical ecology of the lower Zambezi River valley and delta region, in Mozambique. In total eight new archaeological sites have been located in …
The resilience of heritage : cultivating a future of the past : essays in honour of Professor Paul J.J. Sinclair
Av Anneli Ekblom, Christian Isendahl m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
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Throughout his career, Paul Sinclair has encouraged students to pursue a concerned archaeology that goes beyond establishing cultural chronologies to formulating critical inquiries fundamental to our world and for our future. This book explores urbanism, resilience and livelihoods, contacts and …
Archaeological Perspectives on Risk and Community Resilience in the Baringo Lowlands, Kenya
Av Nik Petek
Häftad, 2018
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This historical ecological research provides a detailed insight into the risk avoidance and resilience building strategies in the Lake Baringo basin in Kenya through the lens of archaeology. It explores how changes in subsistence, habitation, and landscape shaped each other and how that affected …
Swahili Social Landscapes
Häftad, 2021
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This thesis explores the social and productive landscapes of Tumbatu and Mkokotoni, two neighbouring Swahili sites in the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania, which are dated to the 11th to 15th centuries CE. Emerging on the East African coast around the 7th century CE, the Swahili culture has …
Nqabayo's Nomansland : san rock art and the somatic past
Häftad, 2004
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Although researchers have made advances in understanding the meanings behid southern African San rock art over the past 25 years, there are still many unresolved issues. The most significant of these concerns the manner in which rock paintings can be used in the construcion of San history. As there …
Unguja Ukuu on Zanzibar : an archaeological study of early urbanism
Häftad, 2004
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Privileged places in south central Mozambique : the archaeology of Manyikeni, Niamara, Songo and Degue-Mufa
Häftad, 2006
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Throughout the 20th century, archaeologists in southern Africa have focused upon visible architectural features of stone built Madzimbabwe settlements as indicators of prestige and power. Solange Macamo proposes a concept of “privileged place” based on a wide range of archaeological and …
Changing landscapes
Häftad, 2004
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This study analyses the long-term interactions of social history and biophysical processes in the Chibuene landscape, the coastal plain of southern Mozambique, 400 AD to the present. The changing socio-natural relationships and preactices of environmental management are discussed on the basis of …
