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The Peopling of Africa - A Geographic Interpretation (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Peopling of Africa - A Geographic Interpretation (Paperback, New Ed)
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Discovering the African past takes one on a journey back to the
origins of humanity over four million years ago, which is where
James L. Newman begins his account of the continent's peoples. He
ends it at the onset of the colonial era in the late nineteenth
century, noting that "Africa and Africans deserve to be known on
their own terms, and to achieve this goal we need to improve our
understanding of what took place before colonialism rewrote many of
life's rules." African identities constitute one of Newman's main
themes, and thus he discusses the roles played by genetic
background, language, occupation, and religion. Population
distribution is the other main theme running through the book. As a
geographer, the author uses regions, spaces, and places as his
filters for viewing how Africans have responded through time to
differing natural and human environmental circumstances. Drawing on
the fields of biology, archaeology, linguistics, history,
anthropology, and demography, as well as geography, Newman
describes the richness and diversity of Africa's inhabitants, the
technological changes that transformed their lives, how they formed
polities from small groups of kin to states and empires, and how
they were influenced by external forces, particularly the slave
trade. Maps are an important part of the book, conveying
information and helping readers interrelate local, regional,
continental, and global contexts.
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