Assembling the village in medieval Bambuk : an archaeology of interaction at Diouboye, Senegal /

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Author / Creator:Gokee, Cameron D., author.
Imprint:Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2016.
Description:xx, 318 pages ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:New directions in anthropological archaeology
New directions in anthropological archaeology.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10822841
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ISBN:9781781790403
178179040X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Village Communities: Rethinking Power and Periphery
  • The Village and the Trope of Traditionalism
  • Rethinking the Village
  • Towards a Relational Archaeology
  • Diouboye: Village and Community in Medieval Bambuk
  • 2. A Medieval Mosaic in the Western Sudan
  • Mosaic: A Relational Perspective in African Archaeology
  • Tradition and Interaction in the Medieval Era (ca. 800-1500 CE)
  • Interregional Economics
  • The Dawn of the Atlantic Era
  • Macroscale Dynamics and Village Life in Bambuk
  • 3. In Search of Bambuk
  • Physical Geography of Upper Senegal
  • Historical Geography of Upper Senegal
  • Mesoscale Dynamics and History in Bambuk
  • 4. Everyday Life in the Land of Gold
  • Socio-Spatial Relations
  • Subsistence and Sustenance
  • Crafts and Commodities
  • Trade and Exchange
  • Religion and Ritual Associations
  • Social Interaction and the Archaeological Record
  • 5. Materializing Interaction: Architecture and Artifacts
  • Production of Space
  • Food ways
  • Crafts Production
  • Ritual
  • Bodily Adornment
  • Long-distance Trade
  • Materiality and the Medieval Village
  • 6. Spaces of Interaction: Houses and Quarters
  • Mapping the Village: Surface Archaeology at Diouboye
  • Settlement Layout and Demography
  • Formal Space and the House
  • Material Practices and the Village
  • Space and Social Relations in the Medieval Village
  • 7. Depositional Histories I: The East Quarter
  • Residential Area F (Unit F)
  • Residential Area G (Unit G)
  • Residential Area H (Unit H)
  • Residential Areas J-K (Unit K)
  • Residential Area N (Unit N)
  • Area L Cairns (Trench L)
  • The East Quarter: Histories of Interaction
  • 8. Depositional Histories II: The West Quarter and Chronology
  • Residential Area A (Unit A1)
  • Residential Area A (Unit A2)
  • Area C Macrolith Scatter (Unit C)
  • Area S Cairns (Unit S)
  • The West Quarter: Histories of Interaction
  • Measuring Time at Diouboye
  • 9. Landscape and Interaction
  • Archaeological Survey in the Madina-Sadatou Study Area
  • Stone Age
  • Iron Age
  • Atlantic Era
  • Historical Upstreaming along the Lower Falemme River
  • Village Life in a Medieval Landscape
  • 10. Assembling the Medieval Village
  • Ancestral Authority: Early Diouboye Phase (1000-1150 CE)
  • Village Growth: Middle Diouboye Phase (1150-1250 CE)
  • Regional Reorganization: Late Diouboye Phase (1250-1400 CE)
  • Situating Bambuk in the Medieval Mosaic
  • 11. Globalized Communities: Perspectives from Prehistory
  • Geographies of Power
  • (Pre)Histories of Globalization
  • References
  • Index