Contributor
Lane, Paul, (Paul J.)
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxv, 468 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Based on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 24-25, 2007.
Note:Introduction: Slavery, social revolutions and enduring memories / Paul J. Lane, Kevin C. MacDonald -- Segou: warfare and the origins of a state of slavery / Kevin C. MacDonald, Seydou Camara -- The Daily life of slaves in the last years of the Bamana States of Kaarta and Segou / Moussa Sow -- The Early Medieval slave trade of the Central Sahel: archaeological and historical considerations / Anne Haour -- Slavery and slaving in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Kingdoms of the Middle Nile / David N. Edwards -- Enslavement and everyday life: living with slave raiding in the North-Eastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon / Scott MacEachern -- Archaeological perspectives on the Atlantic slave trade: contrasts in time and space in Benin and Guinea / Kenneth G. Kelly -- Slaves without shackles: an archaeology of everyday life on Gorée Island, Senegal / Ibrahima Thiaw -- Different conversations about the same thing? Source materials in the recreation of a nineteenth-century slave-raiding landscape, Northern Ghana / Natalie Swanepoel -- Archaeological perspectives on Colonial slavery: placing Africa in African diaspora studies in the Caribbean / E. Kofi Agorsah -- The Invisible archaeology of slavery in the Horn of Africa? / Niall Finneran -- Monuments of predation: Turco-Egyptian forts in Western Ethiopia / Alfredo González-Ruibal -- Slavery and slave trading in Eastern Africa: exploring the intersections of historical sources and archaeological evidence / Paul J. Lane -- Recovering and remembering a slave route in Central Tanzania / Stephanie Wynne-Jones -- Memory, oral history and the end of slavery in Tanzania: some methodological considerations / Jan-Georg Deutsch -- The Present in the past: how narratives of the slave-raiding era inform current politics in Northern and Central Nigeria / Roger Blench -- Constructing and contesting histories of slavery at the Cape, South Africa / Antonia Malan, Nigel Worden -- A Place of history: archaeology and heritage at Cidade Velha, Cape Verde / Marie Louise Stig Sřrensen, Christopher Evans, Konstantin Richter.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
