Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk : An Archaeology of Interaction at Diouboye, Senegal / Cameron Gokee.

Author
Gokee, Cameron D. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2016.
Description
xx, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

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    New directions in anthropological archaeology [More in this series]
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781781790403 (hb)
    • 178179040X (hb)
    LCCN
    2015031512
    OCLC
    922462232
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