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Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk : An Archaeology of Interaction at Diouboye, Senegal / Cameron Gokee.
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Gokee, Cameron D.
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English
Published/Created
Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2016.
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xx, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.
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DT549.9.D56 G65 2016
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Senegal
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Village communities
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Senegal
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History
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To 1500
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Dwellings
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Senegal
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History
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To 1500
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Diouboye (Extinct city)
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Diouboye (Extinct city)
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Social life and customs
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Series
New directions in anthropological archaeology
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Summary note
The land of Bambuk was an important source of gold for trans-Saharan trade and the imperial polities of Ghana and Mali, yet the non-centralized societies of this region remain largely peripheral in the historiography of West Africa. Drawing on recent archaeological research at the site of Diouboye in eastern Senegal, Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk explores social life in medieval Bambuk from the standpoint of a village occupied over several centuries (1000-1400CE). Material and spatial data from excavations, together with data from survey of the middle Falemme River basin, enable a critical look at how interactions across multiple scales-among neighboring houses, between cultural and craft traditions, and within a much broader political economy-created both possibilities for and challenges to the ongoing production of a local community at Diouboye. By moving back and forth across these scales centered on a single village, Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk outlines a relational archaeology of community applicable to the study of seemingly peripheral societies and processes of pre-modern globalization across Africa and beyond. Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-311) and index.
Contents
Village communities : rethinking power and periphery
A medieval mosaic
In search of Bambuk
Everyday life in the land of gold
Materializing interaction : architecture and artifacts
Spaces of interaction : houses and quarters
Depositional histories I : the east quarter
Depositional histories II : the west quarter and site chronology
Landscape and interaction along the Falemme River
Assembling the medieval village
Globalized communities: perspectives from prehistory.
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9781781790403 (hb)
178179040X (hb)
LCCN
2015031512
OCLC
922462232
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