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Material explorations in African archaeology /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Insoll, Timothy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Cover ; Material Explorations in African Archaeology ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables ; 1: Introduction: Material Explorations in African Archaeology ; 1.1 RATIONALE; 1.2 MATERIAL EXPLORATIONS; 1.2.1 Materiality; 1.2.2 Agency; 1.2.3 Relational Archaeology, Entanglement, and Bundling ; 1.3 RECURRING THEMES; 1.3.1 Memory; 1.3.2 Anomaly and the Exotic; 1.3.3 Metaphor and Metonym; 1.4 CONTENTS; 2: Bodies and Persons ; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 THE CARVED BODY; 2.2.1 Scarification and Cicatrization. 
505 8 |a 2.2.2 Archaeological Implications of Scarification and Cicatrization 2.2.3 Dental Modification; 2.2.4 Lip and Other Piercing; 2.3 THE DECORATED BODY; 2.3.1 Body-Painting; 2.3.2 Hair-Styles; 2.3.3 Beads and Cowry Shells; 2.4 FIGURINES, BODIES, AGENCY, AND POWER; 2.4.1 Anomaly; 2.4.2 Internal Bodies and Figurine Agency; 2.4.3 Figurines as 'Fetishes'/Power Objects; 2.5 FIGURINES, FRAGMENTATION, AND PERSONHOOD ; 2.6 HUMAN BODY PARTS, HUMAN SACRIFICE, AND CANNIBALISM ; 2.7 HUMAN LIFE CYCLE; 2.7.1 The Archaeology of Birth, Infancy, and Childhood; 2.7.1.1 Birth; 2.7.1.2 Childhood. 
505 8 |a 2.7.2 The Archaeology of Initiation2.7.2.1 Location and Structures; 2.7.2.2 Figurines; 2.7.2.3 Rock Art and Initiation; 2.8 CONCLUSIONS; 3: The Dead and the Ancestors ; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ANCESTOR CONCEPTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; 3.3 'GOOD' AND 'BAD' DEATH; 3.3.1 'Good' Death; 3.3.2 'Bad' Death; 3.4 MIDDENS AND 'POT CHILDREN; 3.4.1 Middens; 3.4.2 'Pot Children'; 3.5 CONSTRUCTING ANCESTORS; 3.6 BURIAL; 3.7 GRAVE GOODS; 3.8 DESICCATION; 3.9 EXPOSURE; 3.10 TRANSFORMATIVE STATES; 3.11 SECONDARY TREATMENT; 3.12 CURATION; 3.12.1 Wrapping. 
505 8 |a 3.12.2 Comparative Wrapping3.12.3 Curation of Teeth; 3.13 SKULL CURATION AND TREATMENT; 3.13.1 Why Skulls?; 3.13.2 Skulls, Ritual, and Fragmentation; 3.14 ANCESTORS AND THE LIVING; 3.15 CONCLUSIONS; 4: Animals ; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANIMALS; 4.3 THE CULTURAL APPROPRIATION OF ANIMALS; 4.3.1 Perception, Metaphor, Metonym; 4.3.2 'Totem' and Taboo; 4.3.3 Anomaly; 4.3.4 Protective and Efficacious Properties; 4.3.5 Mythological Focus; 4.3.5.1 The Hippopotamus and the Songhai; 4.3.5.2 An Alternative Interpretation?; 4.4 THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANIMALS; 4.4.1 Sacrifice. 
505 8 |a 4.4.1.1 Definition4.4.1.2 Sacrificial Division; 4.4.1.3 The Archaeology of Animal Sacrifice; 4.4.2 Animal (Cattle) Modification; 4.4.3 Archaeological Implications of Animal Modification; 4.5 CONCLUSIONS; 5: Stone ; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 STANDING STONES AND MEGALITHIC STRUCTURES ; 5.2.1 Distribution; 5.2.2 Standing Stones, Megalithic Structures, Ancestors, and the Dead ; 5.2.2.1 Stone and the Dead; 5.2.2.2 Stones as Ancestors; 5.2.3 Standing Stones and the Living; 5.2.4 Standing Stones as Utilitarian Phenomena; 5.3 RAIN-MAKING AND RAIN-STONES. 
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651 0 |a Africa  |x History. 
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