Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives

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POWER AND LANDSCAPE IN ATLANTIC WEST AFRICA
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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
Preface
	NOTE
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
Contributors
1: Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa
	INTRODUCTION
	WEST AFRICA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD: MATERIAL NARRATIVES OF CULTURAL ENTANGLEMENT
	ARCHAEOLOGIES OF POWER AND LANDSCAPE
	LANDSCAPES OF POWER IN ATLANTIC WEST AFRICA
	CONCLUDING REMARKS
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
	NOTES
PART I: FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES
	2: Atlantic Impacts on Inland Senegambia: French Penetration and African Initiatives in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Gajaaga and Bundu (Upper Senegal River)
		INTRODUCTION
		THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
		ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH
		TYPES OF HISTORICAL SITE
		SETTLEMENT DYNAMICS
		CONCLUSION
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
	3: Political Transformations and Cultural Landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic Era: An Alternative View from the Siin (Senegal)?
		INTRODUCTION: MINDING POLITICAL LANDSCAPES
		ATLANTIC TURBULENCES AND SENEGAMBIAN HISTORY
		WRITING THE SIIN FROM THE MARGINS OF HISTORY
		THE SIIN LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT: METHOD AND EVIDENTIAL ARCHIVES
		ATLANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS: SETTLEMENT LANDSCAPES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN SIIN (1400–1900)
		“ROOTED IN THE SOIL”: MAKING ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES OF SENEGAMBIA’S PAST?
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
		NOTES
	4: The Eguafo Polity: Between the Traders and Raiders
		INTRODUCTION
		CHARTING TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
		EQUAFO
		ARCHAEOLOGY AT EGUAFO
			Period one: Pre-contact to the sixteenth century
			Period two: Seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century
			Period three: The nineteenth century
		DISCUSSION
		CONCLUSION
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
	5: From the Shadow of an Atlantic Citadel:An Archaeology of the Huedan Countryside
		INTRODUCTION
		ATLANTIC CITADELS AND THEIR COUNTRYSIDES
		THE SAVI COUNTRYSIDE FROM THE CITADEL LOOKING OUT
		FROM THE SAVI COUNTRYSIDE LOOKING INTO THE CITADEL
		SMOKE AND ASHES
		CONCLUSION
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
		NOTES
PART II: STATE-GENERATED LANDSCAPES
	6: Segou, Slavery, and Sifinso
		INTRODUCTION
		SEGOU 2005–2010
		SLAVERY AND SEGOU’S SETTLEMENT SYSTEM
			Marka towns and the “eternal landscape”
			The state-generated landscape: Fadugu, Dendugu, and Cikebugu
			Sifinso
		DISCUSSION: SETTLEMENT TYPE AND SETTLEMENT SIZE
		CONCLUSIONS
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
	7: Building the State in Dahomey: Power and Landscape on the Bight of Benin
		INTRODUCTION
		ROYAL PALACES AND POLITICAL POWER IN DAHOMEY
			The seventeenth century
			The eighteenth century
			The nineteenth century
		NINETEENTH-CENTURY PALACE CENTERS AS BUREAUCRATIC CENTRAL PLACES
		CONCLUSION
		AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
		NOTES
	8: The Formation of an Oyo Imperial Colony during the Atlantic Age
		INTRODUCTION
		COLONIZATION AND COLONY IN EMPIRE STUDIES
		ARCHAEOLOGY OF OYO COLONIZATION AT EDE-ILE
			Ceramics as indicator of Oyo colonization at Ede-Ile
			Baobab trees and transformation of the landscape
			Horse remains as an indicator of Oyo militarism
		COLONIZATION AS A STRATEGY OF IMPERIAL EXPANSION: EDE-ILE AS CASE STUDY
		CONCLUSION
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
		NOTES
PART III: INTERNAL FRONTIER LANDSCAPES
	9: The Rise of the Bassar Chiefdom in the Context of Africa’s Internal Frontier
		INTRODUCTION
		AFRICA’S INTERNAL FRONTIER
		THE BASSAR REGION
		THE RISE OF THE BASSAR CHIEFDOM
			Defining the nature of chiefdoms
			Ethnohistorical context of the Bassar Chiefdom
		ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT
			Iron production and political centralization
			The impact of the slave trade on Bassar political centralization
		THE INTERNAL BASSAR FRONTIER
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
	10: Fortified Towns of the Koinadugu Plateau: Northern Sierra Leone in the Pre-Atlantic and Atlantic Worlds
		INTRODUCTION
		NORTHERN SIERRA LEONE IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
		SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION
		THE INTERNAL AFRICAN FRONTIER IN THE ERA OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD
		THE FORTIFIED TOWNS OF THE KOINADUGU PLATEAU
		A PRE-ATLANTIC INTERNAL AFRICAN FRONTIER?
			Yagala Old Town
		CONCLUSION
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
	11: Rethinking the Mandara Political Landscape: Cultural Developments, Climate, and an Entry into History in the Second Millennium A.D.
		INTRODUCTION
		AN “IRRUPTION OF STATES”: THE SOUTHERN LAKE CHAD BASIN IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM A.D.
		COMPLICATING THE PICTURE: WALLS AND HORSES
		COMPLICATING THE PICTURE: THE DGB SITES
		ENVIRONMENTAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS
		A COMPLEX ENTRY INTO HISTORY
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
		NOTES
PART IV: CONCLUSION
	12: The Local and the Global: Historiographical Reflections onWest Africa in the Atlantic Age
		INTRODUCTION
		A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL EXCURSUS
		THEORIZING LANDSCAPES
		WORLD-HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS
		CONCLUSION
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
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