
Material Explorations in African Archaeology
Insoll(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 5. November 2015
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-19-955006-7 (ISBN)
Description
How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead in certain ways, were all meaningful in the African past. However, these are subjects that have been generally neglected by archaeologists working in Africa until recently. Material Explorations in African Archaeology examines materiality in African archaeology by exploring concepts of material agency and material engagement and entanglement in relation to their manifest presence in persons, animals, objects, substances, and contexts of the African past.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-955006-7 (9780199550067)
Schweitzer Classification
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Timothy Insoll
Material Explorations in African Archaeology
E-Book
10/2015
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€60.99
Available for download
Person
Timothy Insoll is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester.
Content
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Tables 1: Introduction 2: Bodies and Persons 3: The Dead and the Ancestors 4: Animals 5: Stone 6: Earth and Clay 7: Shrines 8: Landscapes 9: Healing, Medicine, and Divination 10: Conclusions References Index