Cantitate/Preț
Produs

The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology: Oxford Handbooks

Editat de Peter Mitchell, Paul Lane
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 iul 2013
Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.
Citește tot Restrânge

Din seria Oxford Handbooks

Preț: 103930 lei

Preț vechi: 146120 lei
-29% Nou

Puncte Express: 1559

Preț estimativ în valută:
19892 20677$ 16478£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 25-31 ianuarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199569885
ISBN-10: 0199569886
Pagini: 1078
Ilustrații: 250 in-text illustrations
Dimensiuni: 181 x 246 x 59 mm
Greutate: 2.28 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Handbooks

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology is a great source of reference to work with. Especially for a professional who specializes in regions outside Africa, it represents a useful starting point to gain a comprehensive, though necessarily selective, overview of key topics.
Mitchell and Lane have brought together an impressive volume of lucidly written short essays accompanied by substantive bibliographies that provide useful pathways into current literature.
Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane can be congratulated on successfully identifying contributors with both general and site-specific knowledge and taking the time to cross-reference the chapters and provide a comprehensive index. It will become one of the most useful books on my shelves.
The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology is an essential purchase for Africanist archaeologists and for college and university libraries.
The chapters are comprehensive and authoritative with successive sections on theory, method and practice; becoming human; African forager, pastoralist and farming communities; towns and states; andAfrican societies and the modernworld system.

Notă biografică

Peter Mitchell is Professor of African Archaeology, Tutor and Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Honorary Research Associate, GAES, at the University of the Witwatersrand. From 2004 until 2006 he served as President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, and since 2006 has been Honrary Secretary of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.Paul Lane is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of York and Honary Research Associate, GAES, at the University of the Witwatersrand. From 2008 to 2010 he served as President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists.