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In this, the 16th issue of The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco
Pipe, the subject matter returns to the east coast of the USA, last
visited by the Chesapeake Bay volume (Number XII). A new, extended,
typology for Colono pipes is presented, along with a detailed
analysis of their chronology. A study of the archaeological
evidence at these sites, together with a comparison of the
stylistic elements present on the Colono pipes with examples from
Mali in West Africa and from elsewhere in the African Diaspora
outside North America, strongly supports previous arguments for an
African ethnicity for the Chesapeake finds. The author links the
increasing social hostility towards Africans in the area, as the
century progresses, with changes in the styles observed on the
pipes "investing them with...a symbolic content...as a method of
communicating cultural survival and ethnic solidarity." The work is
of particular significance to prehistorians who lack the means of
studying past societies using historical sources.
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African
societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using
historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this
collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the
commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically
reshaped the regional contours of political organization across
West Africa. The essays examine how social and political
transformations occurred at the regional level by exploring
regional economic networks, population shifts, cultural values and
ideologies. The book demonstrates the importance of anthropological
insights not only to the broad political history of West Africa,
but also to an understanding of political culture as a form of
meaningful social practice.
This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical,
and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the
production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom
of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in
the modern Republic of Benin, emerged in this period as one of the
principle agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an exemplar
of West African state formation. Drawing from eight years of
ethnohistorical and archaeological fieldwork in the Republic of
Benin, the central thesis of this volume is that Dahomean kings
used spatial tactics to project power and mitigate dissent across
their territories. J. Cameron Monroe argues that these tactics
enabled kings to economically exploit their subjects, and to
promote a sense of the historical and natural inevitability of
royal power."
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African
societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using
historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this
collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the
commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically
reshaped the regional contours of political organization across
West Africa. The essays examine how social and political
transformations occurred at the regional level by exploring
regional economic networks, population shifts, cultural values, and
ideologies. The book demonstrates the importance of anthropological
insights not only to the broad political history of West Africa,
but also to an understanding of political culture as a form of
meaningful social practice.
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