African Archaeology

This volume boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heritage institutions, to examine locally initiated projects.  Schmidt explores how and why local research initiatives, which are often motivated by rapid culture change caused by globa..

Authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging, and difference in ancient Africa were made and unmade in their intersection with other salient domains of social experience: states, landscapes, discour..

African experiences and experiments with participatory archaeology and heritage studies emerge center stage in this book, with case studies vividly illustrating that local knowledge derived from mutually beneficial collaborations opens new vistas into reforming professional practice. The chapters in..

The Life of Trade utilizes archaeological and historical sources to address the complex nature of the Atlantic trade on the Gambia River. Taking a fresh multi-disciplinary approach, the book highlights the region’s atypical position as a commercial crossroads and access point for both interior and A..

The Swahili World explores aspects of the archaeology, history, linguistics and anthropology of the eastern African coast. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, during which time the coast was initially settled, towns developed, people converted to Islam, and successive colonial regimes preceded ..