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ETHNIC AMBIGUITY AND
THE AFRICAN PAST

PUBLICATIONS OF THE

INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

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Ethnic Ambiguity and the African Past

Materiality, History, and the Shaping of

Cultural Identities

Edited by

Franois G. Richard
Kevin C. MacDonald

First published 2015 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Ethnic ambiguity and the African past : materiality, history, and the shaping of cultural
identities / [edited by] Franois G. Richard, Kevin C. MacDonald.
pages cm.(Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College
London)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-62958-007-4 (hardback : alk. paper)ISBN 978-1-62958-009-8 (institutional eBook)ISBN 978-1-62958-010-4 (consumer eBook)

1. EthnoarchaeologyAfrica. 2. AfricansEthnic identityHistory. 3. Indigenous peoplesMaterial cultureAfrica. 4. AfricaCivilization. I. Richard, Franois G., 1976- editor of compilation. II. MacDonald, Kevin C., editor of compilation. III. Series: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

CC79.E85E77 2014

305.896096dc23

2014030350

ISBN 978-1-62958-007-4 hardback

Contents

Christopher R. DeCorse

Franois G. Richard and Kevin C. MacDonald

Cameron Gokee

Franois G. Richard

Kevin C. MacDonald

Roger Blench

Scott MacEachern

Pierre de Maret and Alexandre Livingstone Smith

John Giblin

Paul J. Lane

Stephen J. Shennan

Figures

Tables

The archaeological study of ethnicity has been the subject of extensive research. At times viewed as a primary focus of investigation, at others as shifting ephemera unworthy of study, the archaeological delineation of ethnicities has remained a pervasive theme in African archaeological research over the past six decades. Some of the studies undertaken have been more productive than others. This volume provides an illustration of a new generation of research that has revisited ethnicity as an analytic concept, providing both a useful synthesis of previous work and substantive case studies. It offers more than the distillation of old wine into new skins: the contributors break new ground and engage the African literature with wider debatesdebates with which African data have often not been brought to bear. This is the key contribution of this book.

In his 1982 article African Archaeology Comes of Age, Merrick Posnansky pointed out that during the 1960s much of the expanding, postcolonial research into the African past increasingly focused on the archaeological record of the component populations of the newly independent African states. This research had direct relevance to the present, offering connections to contemporary populations in ways that the temporally distant Stone Age did not.

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