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Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa, archaeological perspectives, edited by J. Cameron Monroe, Akinwumi Ogundiran

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Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa

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edited by J. Cameron Monroe, Akinwumi Ogundiran

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archaeological perspectives

This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. The essays examine how social and political transformations occurred at the regional level by exploring regional economic networks, population shifts, cultural values and ideologies. The book demonstrates the importance of anthropological insights not only to the broad political history of West Africa, but also to an understanding of political culture as a form of meaningful social practice.--, Provided by publisher

Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Atlantic impacts on inland Senegambia : French penetration and African initiatives in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gajaaga and Bundu (Upper Senegal River) / Ibrahima Thiaw -- Political transformations and cultural landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic era : an alternative view from the Siin (Senegal)? / François Richard -- The Eguafo polity : between the traders and raiders / Sam Spiers -- From the shadow of an Atlantic citadel : an archaeology of the Huedan countryside / Neil L. Norman -- Segou, slavery, and sifinso / Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara -- Building the state in Dahomey : power and landscape on the Bight of Benin / J. Cameron Monroe -- The formation of an Oyo imperial colonial enclave during the Atlantic age / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- The rise of the Bassar chiefdom in the context of Africa's internal frontier / Philip de Barros -- Fortified towns of the Koinadugu Plateau : northern Sierra Leone in the pre-Atlantic and Atlantic worlds / Christopher R. DeCorse -- Rethinking the Mandara political landscape : cultural developments, climate, and an entry into history in the second millennium AD / Scott MacEachern -- The local and the global : historiographical reflections on West Africa and the Atlantic age / Ray A. Kea

Power & Landscape in Atlantic West Africa