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Outsiders and Strangers - An Archaeology of Liminality in West Africa (Hardcover, New)
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Outsiders and Strangers - An Archaeology of Liminality in West Africa (Hardcover, New)
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Studies of liminality have a long history in anthropology. In
archaeology, identifying past people - rather than faceless
entities - through material culture is still a work in progress,
but a project that has seen increased attention in recent years.
Focusing on West Africa, this book argues that we should explore
what happens when the primary label assigned to a person's identity
is that of an outsider - when he or she is of, but not in, society.
Such outsiders can be found everywhere in the West African past:
rulers show off their foreign descent, traders migrate to new
areas, potters and blacksmiths claim to be apart from society. Thus
far, however, it is mainly historians and anthropologists who have
tackled the question of outsiders or liminal people. This book asks
what archaeology can bring to the debate, and drawing together for
the first time the extensive literature on the subject of
outsiders, looks in detail at the role they played in the past 1000
years of the West African past, in particular in the construction
of great empires.
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