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Precolonial African Material Culture - Combatting Stereotypes of Technological Backwardness (Paperback)
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Precolonial African Material Culture - Combatting Stereotypes of Technological Backwardness (Paperback)
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The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material
culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious
myth in the scholarly and popular imagination. Due to the emergence
of the field of African studies and the upsurge in historical and
archaeological research, in recent decades the stridency of this
myth has weakened, and the overtly racist content of arguments
mustered in its defense have tended to disappear. But more
important are transformations in social, political, and cultural
consciousness, which have worked to reshape conceptualizations of
African peoples, their histories, and their cultures. Precolonial
African Material Culture offers a thorough challenge to the myth of
technological backwardness. V. Tarikhu Farrar revisits the early
technology of sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by recent research and
reconsiders long-possessed primary historical sources. He then
explores the ways that indigenous African technologies have
influenced the world beyond the African continent.
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